When I mention that I studied Meteorology to strangers I meet, inevitably they ask a few standard questions that are often the result of ignorance or political leanings. Here are the top four questions that nearly every non-meteorologist asks: What channel are you on? I’m a meteorologist who doesn’t appear on TV, though I used […]
Question: What is the difference or relationship between hourly probability of precipitation and daily probability of precipitation for example if for a 24 hour period for my town the weather channel is publishing 10% probability of precipitation for each hour of a 24 hour. Period. How is that different from a daily probability of precipitation
Question: I have noticed a pattern in Dublin weather in the last 4 years in which a cold snap arrives in mid and late November but then late December is very very mild. What might cause this? https://weatherspark.com/h/y/33845/2024/Historical-Weather-during-2024-in-Dublin-Ireland#Figures-Temperature https://weatherspark.com/h/y/33845/2023/Historical-Weather-during-2023-in-Dublin-Ireland#Figures-Temperature https://weatherspark.com/h/y/33845/2022/Historical-Weather-during-2022-in-Dublin-Ireland#Figures-Temperatur https://weatherspark.com/h/y/33845/2021/Historical-Weather-during-2021-in-Dublin-Ireland#Figures-Temperature Answer: Ireland’s weather is influenced by a number of large-scale atmospheric and oceanic patterns—particularly the jet
Question: Hi could you help me because I saw & filmed something very strange that I’m not sure weather could explain,Myself & my girlfriend were standing at our backdoor having a cigarette it was summer time around 5 or 6pm the sky was blue with white clouds but I noticed one that seemed different from
Question: I have been reading some accounts of the Hundred Years War and came across an extraordinary meteorological event that took place just outside of Chartres France in 1360. Known as Black Monday, a sudden and violent storm took place on Easter Monday and wreaked havoc on the English army. So much damage was caused
Question: I wondered if I’d be able to get your meteorological expertise on something happening in the mountains of Colorado. The past few winters, we’ve been getting quite a bit of fog, and I believe a majority of it is from the nearby tubing hill and their snowmaking equipment. A theory requires data, so I placed
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