History
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The Washington Post published an interesting article this week on new evidence found to support their legend on the founding of the first dynasty. In a new paper published Thursday in the journal Science, Wu and his colleagues describe geological evidence for a catastrophic flood on the Yellow River in about 1900 B.C. — right around the…
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the devastating flash flood that hit the Big Thompson canyon in Colorado, killing 144 people and causing tremendous damage to the area on that Saturday evening in 1976. The flood was not well predicted due to the high elevation, which reduced radar visibility of the storm that funneled all…
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Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Flood that occurred in Asheville, NC, washing away hundreds of homes and businesses along the French Broad River. It was a major catastrophe for the city, which did not feel the heaviest rainfall but felt the biggest impacts from the rainfall upstream. You can read more about…
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190 years ago today, at a little after Noon, Thomas Jefferson died at Monticello, as Americans celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Later that evening, during a Boston summer thunderstorm, John Adams said his last words and died. They were “Jefferson survives”. He was wrong, because he outlived him by ten hours.…
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I ran across an interesting article this week describing the history of broadcast weather forecasting and how it has changed over time. While I don’t do television weather forecasting myself, I have many former students and friends who do. You might enjoy this peek back at early weather forecasts and how the technology has improved.…
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As a meteorologist, I occasionally get asked if I study meteors. And while rain and snow qualify as meteors under Aristotle’s original definition in Meteorologica back a long time ago, they aren’t meteors as astronomers define them now. Today marks the anniversary of one of the most spectacular meteors that exploded near the surface of…
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MountainXpress has an interesting story this week about the tremendous flood that affected western North Carolina, and Asheville in particular, in mid-July 1916. According to their story, “the tail end of a hurricane, coming close on the heels of another one, had dumped 22 inches of rain on Western North Carolina in 24 hours, inundating…