Every year since 2017, I’ve taken time in late December to curate a top ten list of the year’s significant US weather events, with “significance” loosely defined as a combination of met…

In the early morning hours of July 4th, a deluge above the headwaters of the Guadalupe River sent a wave of water crashing downstream. The river’s level rapidly increased by about 100x, overw…

On Friday and Saturday, a remarkable multi-day tornado event swept the central US. The Storm Prediction Center, an arm of the National Weather Service tasked with forecasting convective weather, is…

A brief retrospective on 2011 A few days ago, I saw the following statistic in the Storm Prediction Center’s 2024 year-in-review post. It is, of course, very much true that 2024 was less dead…

My rebuttal to a New York Times article The New York Times is one of two papers I personally subscribe to, alongside the WSJ. I think they have unparalleled reporting on politics and world events, …

A meditation on the meaning behind a common statistic Over the second week of January, a handful of wildfires rapidly burned through urban corridors on the fringes of the Los Angeles metro area. A …

This will be a rare non-weather blog, but sometimes I like to talk about myself. Around the end of 2024, Pitchfork posted a survey for snobbish music fans to list their top albums and songs of the …

Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the New NWPS API I’ve probably created dozens of random data analysis/plotting scripts over the last few years, mostly using pandas and matplotlib …

Every year since 2017- when I was a Junior in high school- I’ve created a list of the top ten annual weather events in some form. In high school, I posted to my forecast instagram account. In…