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Nerdy Hobbies
I have some slightly nerdy hobbies that I dearly enjoy, such as being a member of the Denver Mandolin Orchestra and following financial markets. I guess I am a sucker for data! It’s been so fantastic to see that inflation has gone DOWN by about 50% since 2021! After a big spike in inflation economists…
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Our Living Planet
In the course of our lives we focus on personal needs to survive and thrive. But often we forget that we live on a planet that has a life of it’s own and there are many times when we humans, like any other creature, have to adapt. A great example of this is Mt. Etna…
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Hurricane Hilary Hits Southwest U.S.
As the storm moves into California and Arizona this morning it will weaker to a “Tropical Storm”, but all that indicates is that the winds will be below the 74.6 mph threshold to be a hurricane. There is a serious threat of flooding from the deserts of California and Arizona all the way north into…
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Wildfires on Maui
As we witness the heartbreaking devastation of the wildfires on Maui you may be wondering how fires can happen in a tropical location. Like all of the Hawaiian Islands, Maui was formed by volcanic activity and there is mountainous area roughly through the center of the island. On the east side of the island the…
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Perseid Meteor Shower
The yearly Perseid meteor shower peaks this weekend, Saturday night into Sunday morning. Starting around 10:00 pm local time you can expect about 1 meteor per minute with a few bursts of more intense activity possible. At 3:00 am the cool crescent moon will rise adding a little extra to the late-night sky watching. Let…
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Life After Television
It’s been 3 years now since my last television appearance as a weather forecaster. There are a lot of adjustments that have been needed to realign myself with the world now that my deadlines aren’t measured in seconds. Originally, my career goals were to use my degree in meteorology to become a severe weather researcher…
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Nobel Prize!
Physics for climate and other complex phenomena Three Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their studies of chaotic and apparently random phenomena. Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann laid the foundation of our knowledge of the Earth’s climate and how humanity influences it. Giorgio Parisi is rewarded for his revolutionary contributions to the…
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Drought Exposes 130-Year-Old Shipwreck … in North Dakota
October 3, 2021 The steamboat Abner O’Neal struck a rock and sank in 1892 on the Missouri River while traveling between Washburn and Mandan, north of Bismark, North Dakota.
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The View From Above
On Nov. 19, 2016, an Atlas V rocket launched the first next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series (GOES-R) satellite. NOAA This close-up view from a full Earth image by GOES-16 weather satellite shows the powerful nor’easter bringing snow to the northeastern U.S. on March 7, 2018 at 10:26 a.m. EST (1526 GMT). NOAA A full-disk…
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CSU Spots “Milky Seas”
Using nearly a decade of satellite data, researchers at Colorado State University have uncovered “milky seas” in a way they’ve never been seen before – a rare and fascinating oceanic bioluminescent phenomenon detected by a highly sensitive spaceborne low-light sensor. The watershed study appears in the world’s largest scientific journal, Scientific Reports, published by Nature…