(Following is a fictional scenario from a new disaster novel…) It’s Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010…and the city of New York is virtually isolated from the rest of the world tonight after a devastating encounter with Hurricane Nicole. Packing top winds of 140 mph, the Category Four hurricane made landfall near Sandy Hook, NJ just after [...]
Author Ken Bass will be on WeatherBrains Monday night to talk about his novel Landstrike, about a Category 4 hurricane hitting New York City. Ken relies on extensive research to try to present an accurate but frightening portrayal of what would happen if this scenario unfolded. A great read. I will have a complete review [...]
Author Kelly Kazek, who was a guest on last week’s WeatherBrains, will be signing her new book The History of Alabama’s Deadliest Tornadoes: Disaster in Dixie at the Little Professor Book Store in Homewood Thursday, June 3rd from 5-7 p.m. Please go by and pick up a copy!
Author Kelly Kazek is the Managing Editor for the Athens News-Courier in Limestone County, Alabama. She is putting the finishing touches on a book about the some of the most memorable tornadoes in Alabama history. Titled “A History of Alabama’s Deadliest Tornadoes: Disaster in Dixie,” the book will be in stores by the end of [...]
How to Collect Clouds – From the Cloud Collectors Handbook by Gavin Pretor-Pinney: You might well think that cloud collecting sounds like a ridiculous idea. How can anyone collect such ephemeral and free spirited things as clouds? Surely they are about as uncollectible as anything gets. Magicked into being by the inscrutable laws of the [...]
Someone on Twitter asked WeatherBrains friend Nate Johnson from WRAL for some weather history book recommendations and he passed it along to me. That’s an easy idea, but it’s hard to come up with my top ten relatively recent favorites. Let’s give it a shot, and you help with your recommendations as well. 10. Sudden [...]
Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather by Mike Smith Mike Smith was the Guest WeatherBrain on episode 199 last November. Listen here. Do you remember the last time that a tornado killed one hundred or more people? Do you remember the last time that a U.S. passenger jet crashed because of [...]
Author Eric Pinder has written several books about science and nature. His writing first caught my eye as part of a collection of weather stories in “Soul of the Sky, Exploring the Human Side of Weather,” published in 1999 by the Mount Washington Observatory. In that book, the essays weren’t pre-occupied with the geeky weather [...]