Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Tribute to Liz Quoetone

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Today, on the 89th anniversary of the deadliest tornado in US history, a friend and colleague - Liz Quoetone - succumbed to cancer.  Her ...
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Friday, February 21, 2014

Building codes - brutally violated!

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Today, I learned that an investigation of building construction practices in schools hit by the 20 May 2013 tornado in Moore, OK showed the...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Some more thoughts about gun violence in the USA

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Friday, January 31, 2014

What information does a weather forecast contain?

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A colleague of mine said something years ago that struck me as insightful:  every model forecast ever issued was wrong!  Wrong in some way o...
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Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Forecast frustrations

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Yesterday's events in the southeastern US have revealed, yet another time, how frustrating it can be to be a forecaster.  Forecasting th...
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Sunday, January 26, 2014

The indifferent stars - More musings about the meaning of life

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A friend just posted on Facebook about how stars had to die for us to exist at all.  This stimulated a question in me:  should we worship s...
Friday, January 24, 2014

The Richard Sherman Brouhaha

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If you follow NFL football at all, by now you surely know about the interview with Richard Sherman, Seahawks cornerback, after the game .  I...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

A tragedy or a harbinger?

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As the people of Charleston, WV grapple with the challenge of contaminated water from a chemical spill into the public water supply, I proba...
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Saturday, December 28, 2013

A Sucker Born Every Minute ...

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In these times, it seems superfluous to present more evidence regarding the old adage (attributed to P.T. Barnum) that there's a sucker ...
Friday, December 27, 2013

The Morale of Federal Employees

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 A blog about the causes for low morale among Federal employees just came out from NPR.  I disagree strongly with the final take-away messa...
Monday, December 16, 2013

Whither goest operationally-relevant severe storms research?

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As part of my post-NOAA employment, I've been funded (part time) for several years by grants from the National Science Foundation.  Befo...
Friday, December 13, 2013

A waste of state resources

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Over and over, of late, we hear about state legislators in diverse states around the US passing laws to allow school-sanctioned prayers (and...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Inevitable uncertainty in weather forecasting

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A recent blog I read made an effort to explain probability in weather forecasting.  From my perspective, it fell rather short of an explana...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

Thoughts on the passing of Nelson Mandela

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Listening to the many tributes to Nelson Mandela today, following his death at age 95, I was reminded of how fortunate the world has been to...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The myth of professional versus amateur chasers

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It's not uncommon to hear storm chasers described as either professional or amateur chasers.  There might be a very, very tiny fraction ...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

My tribute to ShockNet Radio and RJ Evans

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As we come to the end of ShockNet Radio on 29 November, there's a great deal of sadness associated with its going off the "air...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Company principles and success

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A recent conversation with a friend has reminded me of something that often leaves me scratching my head in amazement.  His story concerned ...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Causes for the weather community to get behind

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A never-ending story in the field of tornado hazards is the miserable construction practices that characterize so much of American frame ho...