I know it's early...but all eyes in New England should monitor what is happening to the south of Cuba right now and into the Gulf for the next few days. Sure, this wet weather is a drag recently, I grant you that...but this has the potential to be a more serious problem for our weather ( Read more... )

Yeah so I'm up at PSU for the summer doing my thesis research. Needs to be done by mid-August for when I go down to Cape Canaveral to present the project deliverables (and maybe an offer of a job post-grad ( Read more... )

I have been lazy in keeping abreast of the weather over the past few days. Thesis research projects, grading labs, and Hydrology journal summaries have kept me quite busy. Jade kinda caught me off guard today when she asked me what to wear for Saturday night. Not good, being a degreed meteorologist! Hopefully I will answer this and other ( Read more... )

Well if you're into really shitty D-rated zombie movies, watch "Mortuary." I thought I had seen it all, but I guess with the zombie genre they just keep finding ways to outdo themselves, in terms of the "best" cheeziness ( Read more... )

Yay for mild pneumonia! ::rolls eyes:: 103 temp, wheezing and coughing...way to "enjoy my break." Going back to the doctors tomorrow for more tests ( Read more... )

This is probably one of the most difficult entries I've written in this space. It's something I've never really dealt with before, so I really don't know how I'm going to act or respond or whatever ( Read more... )

The major pattern shift at upper-levels has occured with the passing of the last storm system. It was really only a matter of time, as the polar vortex we're now stuck in was just waiting for a storm to move it toward the south. An unseasonably warm (quite nice!) past couple of days transitioned to a much colder polar airmass, being ushered in by ( Read more... )

NOAA has just released the NESIS (Northeast Snowstorm Impact Scale) to the public. The crux of it is in Vol. 1 of the Northeast Snowstorms series authored by Paul Kocin (the winter weather expert on the Weather Channel) and by Louis Uccellini (head of NCEP) that I bought at last year's AMS conference in San Diego. The index is based on two ( Read more... )

I'm in Atlanta! And I've got a room to myself for the entire trip. rock ( Read more... )

Just heard / am still hearing Lacuna Coil's song off the Underworld Evolution soundtrack, "Our Truth". My new favorite song. And the lead singer Cristina Scabbia is mouthwateringly gorgeous. Mmmm ( Read more... )