What made the rain in Hurricane Harvey so extreme?
Even compared to other tropical cyclones, the rain from Harvey has been very hard, and gone for a very long time.
Even compared to other tropical cyclones, the rain from Harvey has been very hard, and gone for a very long time.
Sue van den Heever has been selected as the 2018 recipient of the American Meteorological Society Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award, a highly competitive, national award.
The team, part of CSU’s Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, is led by research scientist Steven Miller, in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A field campaign for observing storms using drones and weather balloons wrapped up in June.
Celebrating Nolan Doesken’s 40 years of service to CSU, 11 of those as Colorado’s State Climatologist.
They cite neutral El Niño-Southern Oscillation conditions and a warmer than normal tropical Atlantic.
The fact that people reliably flock to social media to discuss smoke and fire was the inspiration for a new study by CSU atmospheric scientists.
Her aim is to understand extreme weather two weeks to two months in the advance – what's called sub-seasonal timescales.
Hurricane researchers have increased their forecast from early April and now call for a near-average Atlantic hurricane season.