While all eyes have been on the two hurricanes, the wildfire smoke is still impacting many areas. It is quite visible today on the GOES images. The fires in the NW Territories of Canada this summ...
An atmospheric river is a plume of moisture that often shows up well on Satellite images over large oceans. If I see one associated with a storm, I know that it will likely be a very wet one with...
NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch Wednesday afternoon, but this one was special. Severe Thunderstorm Watch #33 for parts of Oklahoma and North Texas was issued b...
https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2023/02/16/the-secret-behind-severe-thunderstorm-watch-33/
Last week I saw the news about this balloon from China passing over Montana, and when the Defense Department said it was from China, I thought, let’s see if it was! Turns out NOAA has a numeric...
https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2023/02/14/going-viral-is-a-pain/
In case you were wondering… IF Bonnie has a recognizable circulation (Tropical Depression), into the Pacific, and then regenerates, the name Bonnie will continue to be used by the National Hurr...
https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2022/07/01/in-case-you-were-wondering-about-this/
Good piece here at NASA. It’s a widespread myth that climate models are not very good. In fact, they do an amazing job, and it is fairly straightforward to test them. The bad news is what they ...
https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2021/11/01/the-climate-model-myth-needs-to-die/
The New Jersey State Climatologist posted a map of the rainfall from Ida Wednesday night. Look at these rainfall totals! Now, Look at this graph from Dr. Brian Brettschneider. He posted this on T...
https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2021/09/03/two-connected-images/
Take a look at this: https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2021/06/15/100-year-old-photo-of-carbis-bay-shows-site-of-g7-climate-summit-looks-the-same-as-it-did-then/ It’s been a while since I read a...
https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2021/06/22/how-not-to-do-science-journalism/
Houston, we have a problem. News outlets have found that when they publish any story that has the letters UFO in it, they get a lot of hits. This leads to two things: More UFO stories and poor jo...
https://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience/2021/05/25/aliens-in-the-sky-show-me-some-real-evidence/
The La Soufrière volcano on St. Vincent has rumbled to life and the loop below shows the second of two eruptions today. This is a dangerous volcano. It killed over 1000 in 1902 and it is a strat...