Something I covered on the news briefly yesterday is starting to garner more attention from the super smart folks in the tropical research community. We talked about how a piece of the Central American Gyre may “birth out” a weak system and send it north depending on a couple of different things occurring in the atmosphere. It is now being… Read more →
A roughly mile-wide asteroid is about to give Earth a proverbial buzz-cut this weekend. The asteroid will come within .032 au of Earth. Zero-point-three-two! Holy moly! But don’t worry. An au, or Astronomical Unit, is a very large measurement. It is the distance from the Earth to the Sun. Or about 93 million miles. So 0.32 of 93 million is… Read more →
I’m back after a year and I’m still making music puns! So what’s in store for the upcoming week? Well, I definitely have good news! The rain has passed and the clouds will be clearing so you can finally see the sunshine after nothing but rain this past weekend. Does this mean we’re in the clear for anymore crazy storms… Read more →
I had a chance to sit down with Don Shepherd, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mobile, AL. Don is a wealth of knowledge and was nice enough to give us a half-hour of his time. Here is a that entire conversation (with a few edits and additions). Hopefully this is useful for you as we enter the… Read more →
