Saturday, October 26, 2013

Driving away from tornadoes in urban areas - a bad idea

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As I posted here , there have been some tornado situations of late where people have received bad advice from public and private sources reg...
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Thursday, October 17, 2013

Recognition awards

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This has been my year for awards, it seems.  In June, at the European Severe Storms Conference in Helsinki , Finland, I was honored with the...
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Public tornado shelters - Not necessarily a good idea!

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I understand perfectly why folks would favor public tornado shelters.  If there were public tornado shelters, then no one would have to str...
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Follow-up on the Colorado Floods

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It's come to my attention that the NWS forecasts for the major flash flood event in Colorado failed to anticipate the disaster that was ...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Thoughts on the Colorado floods

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In the late summer/fall of 1976, I had graduated with my doctorate and was working at the National Severe Storms Forecast Center (an earlier...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Immigration – responsibilities

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It’s a really big decision to make – to leave the nation in which you were born and move yourself (and your family) to a different country. ...
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Monday, September 2, 2013

More on the EF-Scale controversy

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I've already had to answer several questions regarding the EF-Scale, so I feel the need to say more on this topic. It is true that mob...
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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Operations versus science - the case of Storm Data

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Recently, something of a brouhaha developed over the rating of tornado intensity on the so-called EF-Scale.  But there have been some impor...
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Friday, August 30, 2013

Photo contests - a license to steal your photos

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Various and sundry photo (and/or video) contests pop up from time to time on the Web and elsewhere.  Many of them with which I'm familia...
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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Thoughts on: MLK and "I have a dream ..."

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Today (28 August) is the anniversary of the "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King - the day is almost over as I type this ...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Security and Justice

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In my career as a meteorologist, I've become very familiar with the history of storms, at least as well as it's known - mostly in th...

A Weather Ready City/Nation? - Round 2

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In an earlier blog , I mentioned some of the issues regarding what it would take to be truly 'weather ready' but I need to return to...
Saturday, August 24, 2013

What is the intent of a Facebook 'meme'

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Facebook includes a great many 'memes' - which are usually photos with some text superimposed on them, making some point about somet...
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

The perils of whistle-blowing

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As I write this, Bradley Manning has been sentenced to 35 years in military prison for passing classified documents to Wikileaks containing ...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Intellectual arrogance?

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Recently, in some FB 'discussions' I was subjected to some scathing accusations of intellectual arrogance.  According to my detracto...
Monday, August 12, 2013

What is the "new atheism" about?

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Recently, the famous Noam Chomsky has taken on the famous Richard Dawkins , a person widely recognized to be a leader of the aggressive ...