Record cold this August day in New York City: The city along with the rest of the tri-state region is feeling the chilly effect of a cold front sweeping through the region, accompanied by cool rain showers. Tuesday’s high temperature in Central Park was just 59 degrees. The normal high for today is 82 degrees. […]
Category: Extreme Weather
Epic Australian Drought Could Break Soon
The epic Australian drought discussed last month may be about to break, as the El Nino that has caused the drying of the interior has come to an end: The El Nino weather system has run its course and the worst drought in a century could be coming to an end, the Bureau of Meterology […]
Weather Channel Founding Meteorologist Slams Station
In a scathing review of how far off track the Weather Channel has gone from it’s original, well-intentioned mission, its first “Director of Meteorology” laments the loss in a piece he recently published online: It has taken a turn in recent years to being more and more part time weather and part-time “Discovery Channelâ€. Now […]
Epic Drought Strikes Australia
While many articles draw a direct connection between Australia’s ongoing drought and global climate change, the connection is far from solid at this point. But what is clearly understood is that the ongoing and worsening drougt in the interior of Australia is having profound impacts on it’s agriculture, economy, and beyond. The opening of one […]
2007 Hurricane Season Forecast: Media Frenzy
Here we go again…another forecast for an “exceptionally active” hurricane season. Last spring, similar forecasts were touted following the horrific 2005 hurricane season. But what went largely unreported regarding last year’s hurricane season was how quiet it ended up being and how horribly incorrect those forecasts were. Obviously we have yet to know how accurate […]
Mount Washington: A Meteorologist's Paradise
150 to 200-mph winds … snowfall accumulations measured in feet not inches … high temperatures below zero … all in a day’s work for meteorologists atop New Hampshire’s Mount Washington observatory. Peak’s extreme weather could blow you away is the headline of a recent wire story on the fascinating conditions encountered atop this peak that […]