weather
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Sunlight Day
Whether report The Sun is behind clouds here in Santa Barbara, but I still have faith that it’ll be clear by late afternoon, which is how things go here. Meanwhile, Bloomington has had lots of rain while I’ve been gone. Monroe Lake is moving toward flood stage, with 1,605 cfs (cubic feet per second) flowing… Continue reading
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Leftunders
And it will probably be very bad A super El Niño is coming this year. Let’s get it in the OED I’ve been throwing away leftunders, a word I just made up and then found in the Urban Dictionary. Speaking of worse Axios says we’re scaling sin. They are correct, at least in the sense… Continue reading
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Staturday
Kind of a Christo thing Mission TARONI put a silk-wrapped mannequin in space. From The Dorothy Project. It has implications. Today it’s frost The Monroe County Alert System just called me. I didn’t answer, because they call too much. Glad to hear from them when there’s a tornado risk, or when one is coming. Deep… Continue reading
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Midweekend
And now we are hear Our vacationing crew likes The Rippingtons, so I played some of their music through CarPlay on the rental car’s dashboard while sitting in the Lihue Costco parking lot. The above came up. How to enjoy bad but not worse weather Dig the webcam at Poipu beach, on the south side… Continue reading
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This Tuesday
Verily What's happening today is today. All day. Also, it's absurd that Indiana is mostly in the Eastern time zone. This time of year, the sun rises at four hours before noon and sets eight hours after noon. And fast moving storms from southwest to northeast tend to produce tornadoes. There's a long arc of… Continue reading
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Headnesday, the Longer
Haste makes Trash For reasons unknown, I had two posts called Headnesday (because I had to name it something), and I trashed the wrong one because I was in a hurry. Then I No app shows more, FAIK Windy is by far the best site and app for weather geeks. Right now we have a thunderstorm… Continue reading
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Back and (Go) Forth
Apologies for the relative silence. Between travels and slow recovery (still far from over) from cataract surgery for my left eye, looking at screens and writing on them hasn’t been easy. But things are improving. Had a productive Monday at the Summit on Human Agency. My talk was a 15-minute interview by Sheila Warren of Project Liberty,… Continue reading
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Tornado Spotting
I left dinner at the Uptown to stand at the corner of Kirkwood and College in downtown Bloomington, Indiana, to shoot the tornado my phone just told me had formed eight miles west of there. That’s where I was facing when I shot this video, from which I pulled a bunch of screen grabs in… Continue reading
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Whatknot
Boston wins We had some deep snows when I lived in Arlington, Mass (next to Cambridge), but nothing quite like the thick blanket of white that got dumped on the Boston metro two days ago. The screenshot above is part of an NWS snow-depth map that will soon age out. So enjoy it while you… Continue reading
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Flying Fckery
Go now to FlightAware’s MiseryMap. Cick on the blue Play button and watch The Great Storm of January 25-26 move across the land and cause massive delays at airports in its path. I have a 1.59 GB movie (.mov) of what you just saw. What should I do with it? Bonus image: Continue reading
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S’no Trouble
Still falling Snow is the only thing I like about Winter. I grew up on a hill in New Jersey, and sledding down that hill while school was canceled was a huge thrill for me. I see by my stats that I've written 179 other posts about snow. And it's snowing now. Forecasts say one to… Continue reading
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Dept. of Contentions
His story A thousand years ago, when I was in college, there was a traveling museum of some kind, I forget what. All I remember was a pair of very large bronze hands, from a plaster cast. The hands were thick and plainly those of man whose work was heavy manual labor. Then I looked… Continue reading
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Who New?
Might be Winter Every day it snows a little here. Required reading. Seriously. Adrian Gropper: Taking Control of Your Healthcare is More Important Than Ever—Get help from a private AI that works for you – and only you. Announcing the North Atlantic Takeover Organization I avoid politics here, but it’s hard not to hear echoes… Continue reading
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Our Chive
You start with a crater That’s how you make a town like this. Or, if you’re Canada, a reservoir. And exactly which one were you looking for? Anna’s Blog says Anna’s Archive has backed up Spotify’s entire music library: “This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique… Continue reading
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Weathering
And I appreciate them My tale of farting less as I got older has thirteen upvotes. One more way I missed out Daniel Barkhuff on delivering papers as a kid. That was a job I kinda wanted, back then. But at least I did get to serve on the Safety Patrol. And the Green Season… Continue reading
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BDT
Busy Day Today I'm giving this talk at 4pm Eastern today. The longer I work on it, the more audacious it seems. In November no less There's a thunderstorm going on. Bright flashes, deep booms. And it's just 44° out there. Perhaps because mortality is interesting This is the most-read post on this blog over… Continue reading
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Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
It's not the heat (though we have that too). Humidity is 85% here right now. Everything is sticky. Summer in the Midwest. Also the East. And the South. Only more of it. And worse. Interesting: warmer oceans are a cause. The WaPo explains. (Sorry, paywall.) Continue reading
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Storm Reportings
While the deadliest Friday tornadoes were south of here in Kentucky, we were hit by some in and around Bloomington, Indiana. Reports: Bloomingtonian, BSqare Bulletin, Herald-Times, WBIW, WTHR, WFIU, MSN, Facebook, WLKY. I'll add more when I get the chance. Continue reading
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Whether Weather
NOAA (The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) is the alpha US source for weather forecasting, ocean science, climate research, and much more. So, as a weather geek, it concerns me when Wired says Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels: The agency maintains the global backbone of measurements of CO2 and… Continue reading
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Overhearings
Strange but true enough. Why I've been farting less in 1996. From the Undersecretaries of Overstate. My phone bings with notifications from my weather apps saying there is a Dense Fog Advisory in effect—just as the clouds part and vanish, opening a clear blue sky and a bright new day. Where weather forecasts used to… Continue reading