The Human METAR

As a weather weenie, I love staring at radar images of storms. Used to do it as a kid, and I still do it to this day. The same can be said for satellite images, however most of the time those images are updated every 30 minutes. Luckily there are times where we can see rapid scans of storms, ESPECIALLY during hurricane season. And so this was released today of Hurricane Danielle, and my productivity dropped for about 23 minutes…enjoy

After being in Asheville, North Carolina for a little over three weeks, it is starting to feel like home. For those of you that don’t know, I am currently working at the National Climatic Data Center. While NCDC is part of NOAA, I am currently contracted through the Cooperate Institute for Climate and Sciences. (Don’t believe me? see this). The job has been great so far, and I hope to learn a lot over the next few months.

Speaking of NCDC, they released this the other day:

According to this, July 2010 was the second warmest July on record. The warmest month occurred in 1998, which was also an El Nino year