Category Archives: Weather & Natural Disasters

CotW: The Fine Art of Sending Others to Hell

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Wishing damnation of others is tricky business. After all, what’s the criteria? Is it enough to retire, come back in a different, but fairly similar role, underperform, and then, seemingly, get your old job back from someone who worked really hard to get it? (Topical!) Or perhaps you must play in a gigantic stadium in America’s South/Southwest for an organization… Read more »

Denver’s biggest October snowstorm since 1997

We’ve got a foot of snow, give or take a few inches, at our house in north Denver — it’s hard to measure exactly because of all the drifts, due to a stiff north wind — and some places in the Denver area are reporting upwards of two feet. And it’s not over yet. Here are the Loy house, our… Read more »

Oh, the weather outside is frightful…

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Via @denverpost a few minutes ago: “According to the roof of The Denver Post building, 11.25 inches of snow fell here so far today.” And there’s more coming tomorrow. Quite a bit more. Welcome to October in Colorado: Note the Halloween decorations on the front porch of the house at right. Heh. The fake spider webs blend right in with… Read more »

Danny forms, may “parallel” East Coast, but likely not a serious threat

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Above: Via NWS, a computer-simulated radar image for Saturday at 8:00 PM EDT. CAVEAT #1: This is a long-range, 84-hour forecast from a single computer model, and is quite likely to be wrong. CAVEAT #2: It also doesn’t look much like a hurricane. A commenter on Alan Sullivan’s blog mocks it as “Occluded Front Danny.” Heh. Tropical Storm Danny has… Read more »

Bye-bye, Bill

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Hurricane Bill is no more, downgraded to a Tropical Storm — and simultaneously declared extratropical — at 5:00 AM EDT today, after lashing Atlantic Canada yesterday and overnight. Dr. Jeff Masters has a round-up of Bill’s impacts on Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. Most notable, to me, is this tidbit: “At Peggys Cove, three men were hit by a giant wave… Read more »

Beautiful Bill

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Here are some gorgeous satellite photos of Category 4 Hurricane Bill — taken at 1:15 PM, 3:15 PM and 5:15 PM EDT, respectively — courtesy of the wide and narrow RGB satellite loops:

Woodstock & Camille

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The Weather Channel’s Dr. Stu Ostro writes: “Did you know that Hurricane Camille made landfall on the same night as the final night of the Woodstock Music & Art Fair?” I sure didn’t. And that night was 40 years ago this week. Ostro even has the New York Times front page to prove it: Heh. Love the story placement. Three… Read more »