Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
Needle ice forms when the temperature of wet earth is above freezing, but the air is dry and below freezing. The liquid water in the soil wicks to the surface via capillary action through small pores and cracks, where it freezes on contact with the cold air; it expands and forms a small ice cap atop the pore…
The sirens were paid for with federal money, tested, but never turned on due to four noise complaints! Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=2704
As if Boston’s warm-ish, nearly snowless winter wasn’t enough of a clue that something weird is going on, a local resident spotted a porpoise in Dorchester Bay last week — a normal event in Spring, not February. A brief Boston Globe article on the porpoise is here, and includes a phone video of something you…
Boston’s 2018-19 winter has been warmer and wetter than normal. There’s been some serious cold, but not too much; and a little snow and ice, but mostly liquid rain. It’s simultaneously convenient, and disturbing. Permalink: https://langa.com/?p=1966
Regional forecasts are actually pretty accurate. (See: How Reliable Are Weather Forecasts?) But very local, small scale forecasts have additional variables. For example, Boston is a waterfront city and so is subject to various effects that apply only to the immediate coast. A distance of a few miles/KM can make a huge difference in temperature,…
A reader wonders where to seek higher ground in and around Boston.
Autumn felt awfully brief this year; encroached upon by a lingering summer on the front end, and now by an abrupt winter on the back end. Permalink: https://wp.me/paaiox-hF Want free notification of new content like this? Click here! Have a comment? Want to ask Fred a new question? Click here!
Several days ago, I posted four videos of a tornado chase I went on a few years back. (For info and links, see A reader asks for reposts of my tornado chase videos.) That prompted another reader — Peter Wharton, who was in fact the driver of our van during the chase — to ask…
Reader Drew Foster was hoping I could resurrect some videos from a tornado chase I went on in 2008, and he asked me about it via the Contact link: “Fred: Please re-upload your videos of the Quinter tornado. Part 2 is available on YT but that’s it.” Sure, Drew! In a week’s chasing from Texas…