Events
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If you haven’t been watching astronomy news lately, you may have missed the stories about the total solar eclipse that occurred yesterday in Indonesia and the surrounding regions. EarthSky has some excellent photos of the eclipse at https://earthsky.org/todays-image/todays-eclipse-over-indonesia. The National Weather Service office in Boise posted a time-lapse video from the Himawari 8 satellite showing the…
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The CoCoRaHS network (Community Collaborative Rain Hail and Snow Network) is recruiting new volunteer precipitation observers. Every year in March they hold a contest to see which state can sign up the largest number of new observers. So far this year North Carolina leads the nation with 14, but most other southeastern states have only…
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The tornado intercept and study program called VORTEX-SE started March 1. This field project, Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast, will send scientists out across the Southeast on days that are likely to have severe weather to study the development and evolution of tornadic supercell storms as systems move through the region. The…
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When most people think of meteorologists, they think of someone on television cracking jokes about the weather and waving their hands in front of moving weather graphics. Or they think of someone chasing tornadoes, even though many chasers do not have degrees in meteorology and are more thrill-seekers than scientists. But meteorologists do many other…
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This year is leap year, which means you will probably be reading this on February 29. This date comes around every four years in general, although we did not have one in 2000. The need for a leap year is due to the timing of the earth’s orbit around the sun. Here are some resources…
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In spring the National Weather Service offers classes in storm spotting to the general public in each of their areas of responsibility. These spotters go out and report on real-time conditions to the NWS, which provides incredibly valuable “on the ground” observations to the forecasters. If you are interested in becoming a storm spotter, you can…
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Chris Robbins’ blog at iWeatherNet.com noted that today is the birthday of the National Weather Service. Here is how his entry begins: “The Weather Bureau, now known as the National Weather Service, was established on February 9, 1870 by the 41stUnited States Congress and signed by President Ulysses S. Grant. On March 29, 1870, the…