I was on a Zoom call earlier this week when one of the participants in Washington D. C. abruptly excused himself, saying that they were under a tornado warning and he was headed for shelter. The tornado passed through the region of Arlington and the National Mall while he and…
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As of 11 pm on Monday July 5, 2021, Tropical Storm Elsa has crossed Cuba and is now over the ocean again. It has lost a little strength over the Cuban mountains but is expected to regain some of it, although the prediction is that it will not regain hurricane…
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I love to visit the Georgia coast and see the coastal marshes. Here is an interesting 5-minute video story about a Georgia clam farmer and the changes he has seen in the marshes over his career as a fisherman. He reminds people that whatever they are putting into their drains…
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I ran across this tidbit of information on Facebook today, posted by my husband John Knox, who is also a meteorologist. It discusses the 1967 prediction of global warming by Manabe and Wetherald, in a time period when the earth was slowly cooling. You probably don’t know their names, but…
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If you thought that we were the warmest in our Northern Hemisphere summer because the Earth is closest to the sun then, you are in good company with Harvard students (according to a videotaped survey my husband uses in his intro meteorology class) but scientifically wrong. Today is actually Aphelion,…
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Just a quick update on Tropical Storm Elsa, which briefly reached hurricane status before weakening as it lost its organization. There is still a chance that it could regain hurricane status again if it strengthens over warm water in the eastern Gulf, but most likely it will remain a tropical…
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Happy Independence Day! I hope you had a great day, whatever you did. You might be interested in what the weather was like on the original Independence Day, July 4, 1776. Alicia Wasula of Shade Tree Meteorology noted in her blog this week: While we don’t have nearly as much…
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