Tag: Meteorology
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Tribute to Earth with Haiku Poems
EARTH DAY serves to remind us just how incredible and unique our home planet is. From her atmosphere to her rivers, Earth has everything we need to survive. If we want to make sure future generations can thrive in Earth’s beauty, we must actively protect natural resources, care for other species and always choose to invest in learning more. Frankly, Earth doesn’t need…
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New Zealand’s Incredible Clouds!
Shooting clouds over Mt. Cook (Aoraki) For the past couple of months, I’ve been working on NSF research with Dr. Brian Billings that I’m very excited to share with you! Thousands of images of incredible New Zealand clouds Brian and I captured are now being used in our cloud stereo photogrammetry research. This work is tied with…
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First DEEPWAVE Flight
I’m a bit behind on updates in all the excitement going on with DEEPWAVE, plus exploring beautiful New Zealand, but here’s more about our first flight mission and some links to stay involved! Friday, June 6th, 2014: Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand HIAPER GV Flight Path (4 dropsondes to release-all in the ocean) Skew-T plot…
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Hokitika Downpour
Friday, June 6th, 2014 Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand We’ve had rain, rain, and more rain that began two nights ago. We recorded a high rainfall rate at one point of 67 mm/hr (2.65 in/hr) mid-afternoon yesterday, but there may have been even higher rates overnight. It looks like there may be some…
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DEEPWAVE New Zealand!
Friday, June 6th, 2014 Hokitika, South Island, New Zealand I’ve travelled all the way to beautiful Hokitika, New Zealand during NZ winter to work on the NSF/NCAR-EOL/Naval Research Lab DEEPWAVE mission. I’ll be launching daily weather balloons (upsondes) from the Hokitika Airport and forecasting and monitoring days with conditions that may produce internal atmospheric gravity waves.…
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Weather Experiments for All!
Science is meant to be interactive! That’s exactly why I tried out these three weather experiments with a class of first to fifth graders after teaching them more about severe weather events and safety. These intelligent and curious students were very engaged and I loved hearing their thoughts on each experiment. (I’ve included some suggestions on…
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School Weather Fun!
I had the exciting opportunity to talk about severe weather and safety with a class of young scientists! These elementary-age students were very eager to hear all about hail, floods, winter weather, but especially tornadoes, thunderstorms, tsunamis, and hurricanes. I absolutely loved seeing how tuned in the kids were to the weather facts and safety…
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Chilly Winter Weekend
A couple days ago I talked about this chilly Minnesota weekend (12/6-12/8) on our university station with one of our anchors, Elizabeth! In St. Cloud, we were down to -10° at 11pm last night. That’s 21° lower than the normal low temperature for December 6th!! According to the Chanhassen National Weather Service office, we’ll get down…
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Calor y Humedad en los Estados Unidos
Hoy (18 Jueves 2013), el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional ha emitido una alerta sobre las condiciones extremas en el norte y este de los Estados Unidos. Los estados que verán afectados serán los de North Dakota hasta Massachusetts. Este aviso de calor es en efecto porque las temperaturas en estas regiones están extremamente altas. No solo…
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From Drought to Flood Threat: U.S. Southern Plains
The National Weather Service has outlined flash flood watches throughout most of central Texas and into areas of the Four Corners. In the next 24 hours, 2 to 4 inches of rain are expected in central Texas, with 1 to 2 inches northeast into the Four Corners region. This rain will provide relief for SW…
Dr. Tashiana Osborne Cherké 