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.
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Are 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.
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What 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.
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Whalebone 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…)
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Photographers Point Their Cameras at Some Wild Weather
The Whalebone Department of Atmospheric, Geophysical, and Astronomical Services has been busy recently
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Meteorologists 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…
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Here’s how you might go about getting a hurricane named after you
It’s not easy.
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POW: 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.
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Accidentally Wes Anderson’s air, land and sea adventures in observation
By air, land and sea.
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A 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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