If you’ve ever watched the weather, you know measuring humidity is important for proper forecasting and for understanding heat comfort. High humidity can mean it’s time to break out the air conditioner and fans to keep cool, and it can...
Here in the California, we don’t know if we should be happy about breaking out our wet weather gear in preparation for this weekend’s coming storm with its one-two punch of a bomb cyclone and an atmospheric river, or dreading...
If the definition of drought is a “period of abnormally dry weather,” it is beginning to feel like the word is misused in describing what’s going on out here on the west coast. "Abnormal" seems to be quite normal. But...
What in the weather world is a “clear air vortex”? Well, we just happen to know someone who not only knows what it is, but had one of these weather phenomena hit his house in Oklahoma. Aaron Tuttle was able...
There is a well-known story about a young monk learning to meditate. He complains that “just breathing” is boring. His teacher asks him to put his head in a bucket of water and keep it there for 5 minutes. The...
