Weather Blogs

The Red River at Fargo, North Dakota continues to rise, with a peak expected Sunday at the 4th highest flood level observed in the past century. "Major" flood level is 30 feet, which the river surpassed on Wednesday, and the river is expected to crest near 38 feet on Sunday, just 2.8 feet below the record set last year. Flood stage is eighteen feet, and the Red River has now reached flood stage at Fargo for eighteen consecutive years, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Prior to this remarkable stretch of flooding (which began in 1993), the river flooded in just...

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 ...

Some rare things have happened in the world of weather since The Daily Downpour last broadcast, including an interesting south Atlantic Ocean tropical cyclone. We will also discuss this morning's aft...

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...

HAITIAN SHELTER PROJECTWe've come to the point in the relief operations for Haiti where temporary fixes and stop gap measures are more and more inappropriate; to truly provide relief moving forward we...

High pressure will dominate the region's weather for a majority of the week as the nor'easter pulls away to the northeast. A southwest flow coupled with downsloping conditions will promote very mild t...