Events
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When a forecaster tells you there is a 30 percent chance of rain, what does it mean? This is the subject of a new survey that is going to be discussed at the 43rd American Meteorological Society Broadcast Conference this summer in Raleigh. The researchers want to know the difference between perceptions of PoP forecasts…
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This week is National Environmental Education Week, and there are a number of activities which you can participate in. One of the ones that sounds the most interesting is the Photo Mission to provide photos of resources that can be found on public lands around the country. You can read about the mission, the theme…
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In the past, the most extensive scientific research on tornadoes has been done in Oklahoma and the central Plains, with NOAA and a host of other groups hosting large projects which intercept tornadoes and take data near and around the storms to see how they develop and evolve over time. Projects called VORTEX and VORTEX2…
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WRAL chief meteorologist Greg Fishel and renowned hurricane specialist Kerry Emmanuel hosted a presentation on the future of hurricanes in North Carolina last night. The town hall presentation has been recorded and is available at https://www.wral.com/news/video/14586628/#47gpHetXx8OqUdW8.99. Note that the full presentation is almost two hours long.
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Last week I attended the Waste to Worth conference in Seattle, a meeting filled with useful information on a variety of topics related to managing livestock and animal waste under expanding regulations and increasingly variable climate. Our sister blog posted an entry on some of the things that were being discussed at the W2W meeting.…
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If you live in any of the counties below in northeast Georgia, your help is needed for a University of Georgia study on wind and wind-related damage. Participation is easy–use your computer to fill out a 20-30 minute survey on wind damage in your area and your opinions of several severe weather conditions. In return…
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The Climate Prediction Applications Science Workshop presentations from last week’s meeting in New Mexico are now available as PDF files online. You can see the agenda and link to the presentations at https://aces.nmsu.edu/cpasw/presentations.html. If there is not a PDF available it is because the author did not want it published. Lots of good information there on…