Know Before You Go: Talking Avalanches with NWAC’s Scott Schell
Scott Schell, Executive Director of NWAC, helps us to understand avalanches.
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The Whalebone Weather Edition Guide to Listening to Music Outdoors
It starts with a place to sit.
moreAre These the Luckiest People in the World?
Sometimes you’ll hear people say something like, “You’re more likely to get struck by lightning than to be something something something’d.”
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How I Stopped Worrying About Social Media and Learned to Love Weather Apps
Shelter from the (social media) storm
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When Small Talk Is Big Talk: What We Really Mean When We Talk about the Weather
Talk about the weather is considered mundane small talk—the diminution meant as a sort of putdown.
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A Brief And Hardly Exhaustive History Of Forecasting The Weather
Tracing the history of precipitation prognostication from that time the first weatherman grunted “rock is wet” to literal rocket science.
moreWhat are trade winds?
Any way the wind blows.
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Cloud Identification Classification System
The Whalebone Department of Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services, a sub-division of The Whalebone Weather Bureau is proud to present a primer on cloud classification with some help from NOAA and our intern Will.
moreWhalebone Weather Tourism Bureau Presents: The Field Guide To Weather Tourism
For when you gotta go where it’s warm (or cold, or rainy, or snowy…)
morePhotographers Point Their Cameras at Some Wild Weather
The Whalebone Department of Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services has been busy recently
moreMeteorologists at the Movies
Reviews of Weather Movies by Weatherpeople Both weatherpeople and Hollywood special effects extravaganzas rely on heavy use of green screens. We asked a few…
moreHere’s how you might go about getting a hurricane named after you
It’s not easy.
morePOW: For The Love Of Snow
If you enjoy skiing, snowboarding, climbing, hiking, biking, running, going for walks outside, breathing air or snowball fights this one is likely for you.
moreAccidentally Wes Anderson’s air, land and sea adventures in observation
By air, land and sea.
moreA NOAA Scientist explains the difference between climate and weather
Talking climate and weather with real-life storm chaser and NOAA and NCAR scientist Chris Rozoff In The Eye of the Storm By Jonnah Perkins…
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Al Roker: The Whalebone Interview
Quite possibly the leading figure in weather news in the world. Definitely the most wonderful.
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