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Plenty of Choices in Weather Apps

By Dave Aiello
January 15, 2009

With the weather as brutal as it's likely to get this winter in much of the Continental United States, now is a great time to take a quick look at the leading free weather apps for your iPhone and iPod...

Analysis 2009: Carbon Markets Heat Up, but so does the Weather

By Kurt Cagle
January 6, 2009

Another area where the rise and fall of oil will have a big impact is going to be on climate change amelioration efforts. Reducing carbon emissions is a considerably more hot button issue politically when the price of gasoline...

Engineering Tornado Intercepts - Dr. Joshua Wurman Discusses Mobile Doppler Radars

By James Turner
December 15, 2008

If you've watched the Discovery Channel series "Storm Chasers", you will be familiar with Dr. Joshua Wurman and his Doppler on Wheels radar, which he uses to study tornadoes up close and personal every spring. We spent some time last week speaking to Dr. Wurman about what it takes, technologically, to operate a weather radar in 100 mile per hour winds in the middle of a lightening storm. We also talked about the value of this kind of research to both tornado and hurricane research, and how having a film crew around during missions affects the science.

A Certain Sense of Powerlessness

By James Turner
December 14, 2008

If you haven't been keeping up with the news coming out of the North Eastern US over the last few days, we've had a little bit weather. That is to say, we had about an inch of ice cover everything it could on Thursday night, and gravity being what it is, a lot of trees and power poles decided this would be a good time to lie down and take a little rest.

Hurricane Ike Blows in New Approaches to Social Tech

By Kurt Cagle
September 14, 2008

One hundred and eight years after a storm that wiped Galveston off the map, Hurricane Ike made landfall over Galveston and Houston to the northwest. While the winds were not as strong, the eye of the storm had pressures more closely associated with a Class 4 hurricane than a strong Class 2. The island was hit with a storm surge of roughly 13 feet, enough to smash houses, cover roads with debris (including large boats) and leave the downtown area under up to as much as seven feet of water at one point.

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