Here is a fun tool to try to visualize what the climate of your city (or whatever city you choose) is most likely to be like in 60 years. It allows you to pick what emissions scenario to choose (business as usual versus reduced emissions) and shows either the average…
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A new data visualization tool called PolarGlobe has been made available by scientists at Arizona State University. While it focuses on information from polar regions, it has global atmospheric circulation and also some ocean circulation information at multiple levels. I haven’t had the chance to play with it much yet,…
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Here is an interesting site that shows what your weather will be like over the next few days by plotting the results of several different weather models side by side. When the models agree, the lines are all close together, indicating good agreement. When they diverge, then you know the…
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I am not a big user of weather apps on my cell phone because I don’t have a lot of memory for storage, but most of my meteorology friends are big consumers of weather information via app and computer. Popular Mechanics just posted a list of their top seven weather…
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Here is a cool new web site that shows you where your address was millions of years ago when the continents were in significantly different places than they are now. You can read more and access the direct link here. And ask yourself how we know where the continents were…
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Changes in temperature in the Southeast over the last 100 years or so have been relatively small, especially compared to other parts of the US and the world. That has led to what we call a “warming hole” in the Southeast that gives people here the impression that global temperatures…
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Here’s an interesting interactive website which allows you to display the number of crop insurance payments by commodity, county, and type of claim (wind, hail, flood, etc.) across the US. There is a tour of the site which shows you how to adjust for different crops and it is quite…
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