by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
Writing for Science Alert, Carla Cassella (@carlycassella) highlights chaotic new patterns in jet streams, the currents of air that wrap around the planet. The currents are splitting at such an extreme rate that the experts Cassella quotes used words like “insane” to...
by Chris Tachibana | Mar 31, 2019 | ScienceWire
Weather models make reasonable 7-day forecasts, but “are a crapshoot” with 2- to 6-week predictions, reports John Roach. John (@byjohnroach) has promising news for weather geeks, though. In a post for Microsoft’s The AI Blog, John describes a...
by Chris Tachibana | Nov 1, 2016 | ScienceWire
What happened? Samantha Larson visits meterologist Cliff Mass to find out why predictions of a massive October windstorm didn’t live up to the hype. Paradoxically, she writes in Crosscut, the answer is that weather data and modeling are improving. Samantha is the...
