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The phone calls, e-mails and photos started landing in the weather center this afternoon. “What the heck are those weird clouds?” they wanted to know.
These are clouds called Undulatus, meaning they’re wavy or undulating. It’s caused by a combination of strong winds above-but-horizontal-to the surface and localized downdrafts in the atmosphere above. Together, they give the clouds that wavy look.
People are using umbrellas for now. Irene will take care of those when the wind kicks in later.
The rain has begun in Philly’s Center City. Hurricane Irene is on her way. These are the far-northern outer rain bands. Grab your umbrellas!
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NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope logged its one millionth observation, appropriately, on the 4th of July. In this particular image, it’s checking out the atmosphere of a gas-giant planet about a thousand light-years away.
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Given this afternoon’s numbers, we should be dealing with some really nasty weather… potentially even tornadoes. But it’s not happening. What’s up with that?! Here’s the scoop… Continue reading
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This month has been just crazy! Nuts, I tell you! No wonder we’re all longing for some warmer, spring weather… Mother Nature has been off her meds for the past month. She can’t make up her mind whether it’s supposed … Continue reading
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So I was just clicking through the news and science pages for the Hubble Telescope program (yes, I’m that big a nerd) and ran across some very interesting things… but this one kind of captured my attention. In what NASA … Continue reading
Preliminary storm reports are suggesting a tornado touched down near Maxwell, California, on Monday. That’s just plain odd. Tornadoes are relatively rare in the Golden State. The National Climatic Data Center’s Storm Events Database has a pretty complete record of … Continue reading
It’s a gorgeous afternoon. Bright. Warm. Just a light breeze. The kind of afternoon where you finally begin to realize that there just might be an end to what feels like the longest winter in the history of mankind. It’s … Continue reading
By the time he was only 30 years old, John Jeffries was already an accomplished physician in colonial New England. He hung out in Boston with the likes of future president John Adams and his cousin Samuel Adams (yes, the … Continue reading
As the anniversary of the Blizzard of 1978 came and went on January 26, many of us thought about where we were and how we survived one of the biggest storms in our memories. And as we discussed it on … Continue reading
