What Happens When You Put Thousands Of Weather Geeks In A Building?

Have you ever wondered what happens to your brain after spending all day for four days listening to presentations that last for 15 minutes each and are given by different speakers from all over the world?  Well, for me I usually come to the end of that four days with more questions than answers, but [...]

Were Those Hurricane Forecasts Any Good?

As I undertake final preparation on a presentation related to seasonal forecasting for next week’s American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, it seemed like a good time to look back at last year’s seasonal forecast for the North Atlantic Hurricane Season.  In previous posts (1st, second), we looked at what various forecasting groups were saying the [...]