Tag: weather
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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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{Of Wind}
The way you speak without any words, bringing life to all you pass How you calm the mind and bring tranquility at last your words unspoken your words heard your words felt drawing in your pure energy while surrendering mine to you seeing us as one, no you, no I intertwined and existing in all…
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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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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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Inundaciones en el Sur de Florida
Incluyendo hoy (19 Viernes 2013), ha habido cinco días de lluvia en el Sur de Florida. No es típico para los residentes de esa región ver tanta lluvia en el medio de Julio. El Servicio Meteorológico Nacional de Miami predice más lluvia durante este fin de semana. Con la lluvia, vienen las tormentas. Esperan ver…
Dr. Tashiana Osborne 