Weather Blogs

The extremely wet and windy Nor'easter that plowed across the northern tier of states has left moderate to major flooding in its wake over both the Midwest and Northeast. In the Northeast, the storm dropped more than five inches of rain in New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and moderate to major flooding is occurring in these states. Flooding was particularly severe in Rhode Island on the Pawtuxet River in Cranston, where the river crested a record six feet over flood stage, forcing evacuations. Major flooding was also occurring in New Jersey, where t...

If Lady Chatterley’s Lover, then … :The first paragraph of Sheila Jasanoff’s book, The Fifth Branch, starts“Scientific advisory committees occupy a curiously sheltered position in the landscape of American regulatory politics. In an era of bitter ideological confrontations, their role in policymaking has gone largely unobserved and unchallenged. …” (1990, The Fifth Branch, Chapter 1, Rationalizing Politics; 2009 Interview with Professor Jasanoff)The first chapter of The Fifth Branch is something that I think that all managers of science in the U.S. Agencies ...

Some rare things have happened in the world of weather since The Daily Downpour last broadcast, including an interesting south Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclone. We will also discuss this morning's aft...

Last forecast blog talked about longer period swells, or groundswells. Here we'll discuss their brothers, short period swells, or windswell.The cutoff between groundswell and windswell doesn't have a...

Haiti Shelter ProjectWe've come to the point in the relief operations for Haiti where temporary fixes and stop gap measures are more and more inappropriate; to truly provide relief moving forward we h...

High pressure will dominate the region's weather for a majority of the week as the nor'easter pulls away to the northeast. A southwest flow coupled with downsloping conditions will promote very mild t...