A Tempest By Any Other Name

February 11, 2013

Whether you call it a nor’easter, a Miller B, or a cartoon fish, last weekend’s storm was one more in a long line.

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Super Storms

November 1, 2012

Hurricane Sandy is the latest “once-in-a-lifetime” storm to remind us of nature’s power to reshape our lives.

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Did Arctic Warming Sink Titanic?

April 12, 2012

Was Titanic a victim of unusually warm Arctic weather, and does it mean anything for modern climate study? Read all about it.

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Hit-Or-Miss Forecasts Of A Hit-Or-Miss Winter

February 8, 2012

Until groundhogs and meteorologists decipher the North Atlantic Oscillation, long-range winter forecasts are going to be hit-or-miss.

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Unstoppable Disasters

August 29, 2011

What do you do when you can see disaster coming, but you can’t do anything to stop it?

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The Global Cone Of Uncertainty

February 2, 2011

When weather forecasters predict the path of a hurricane, they use what is known as a “cone of uncertainty” to show the area where the storm could possibly hit. The cone gets wider as it moves farther from the hurricane’s present location. Technology has made us very good at measuring current weather conditions, but our ability to forecast storms still has room for improvement. Theoretically, if we could measure every …

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My Bold Prediction: We’ll Have Summer Next Summer

November 26, 2010

I’m going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: We will have summer weather in the Northeast next year. This may seem obvious, but for a while I had my doubts. This year’s volcanic eruptions, first in Iceland and more recently in Indonesia, reminded me of the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. Like Eyjafjallaj√∂kull in Iceland and Mount Merapi in Indonesia, Mount Pinatubo spewed …

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