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A rare weather event is underway in the South Atlantic Ocean, where the basin's 7th recorded tropical or subtropical cyclone of all-time has formed. An area of disturbed weather (Invest 90Q) off the coast of Brazil, near 30S 48W, attained a well-defined surface circulation, top wind speeds of tropical depression strength (35 mph), a warm core in the bottom portion of the atmosphere, and a cold core aloft last night. If this storm had been in the North Atlantic, there is a good chance it would have been named Subtropical Depression One. However, tropical and subtropical stor...

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 ...

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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...

The following are specific updates on ongoing projects: On site: Portlight has partnered with Howard Koepka and Eagle Pointe Church of Atlanta GA., to ship a container of DME, clinical supplies, pedia...

Winter Forecast 2009-2010 (December, January, February)Fig 1.0- This is the November 21, 2008 snowstorm that brought a surprise 6inches of lake effect snow to my location. It was my favorite snow even...