Well, so far so good… Click through to the NOAA article for a bigger version of the map.
NOAA: El Niño to Help Steer U.S. Winter Weather
El Niño in the central and eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean is expected to be a dominant climate factor that will influence the December through February winter weather in the United [...]
Jeff Masters.
Wunder Blog
According to a 2007 Newsweek poll, 42% of Americans believe that “there is a lot of disagreement among climate scientists about whether human activities are a major cause” of global warming”. I posed the same question to members of the wunderground community on Monday, and even higher 56% of them thought so. However, [...]
Well, in charts, anyway. Barry Ritholtz collects some very nice examples, of which this is only one. Have a look.
Jeff Masters at Weather Underground:
Why did Ike get so large?
Hurricane Ike grew unusually large, eventually filling up the entire Gulf of Mexico and becoming larger than Katrina. How did it get so big? Well, one theory is that the storm’s passage over Cuba helped it to grow in size. During the day and half [...]
It’s that time of year, of course, and the place to go for all your hurricane info needs is Jeff Masters’ blog at Weather Underground, now featuring Hanna, Ike and Josephine(!). Bookmark it, or better yet, use RSS to see the updates.
The National Hurricane Center is another good source.
Use my own interface to NWS Area [...]
For those of us with slightly more than a casual interest in weather forecasts, the National Weather Service’s Area Forecast Discussions are a most valuable resource.
Unfortunately, the NWS AFDs have their drawbacks. They’re nearly unreadable, if you’re not a total weather geek, and there’s no RSS.
Well, all that’s changed now. Visit the Lobitos Weather Project [...]
There’s a new link over there on the left to a nice (if I say so myself) SF Bay Area weather page.
The National Weather Service has a lot of useful information, but my favorite, the Area Forecast Discussion, can be pretty hard to read until you get accustomed to its all-caps (and sometimes rather abbreviated) [...]