Notes from all over…
…Book Alert: “Galveston: A City on Stilts” by the Galveston Historical Foundation, features the amazing photographic collection of Zeva Edworthy. The collection chronicles the bold decision to raise the city and build a massive seawall after the deadly 1900 hurricane. Proceeds from the book benefit the Galveston Historical Foundation.
…The National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia has a fascinating warning decision simulation on their website. The Javascript program allows you to participate in real life severe weather situations. Your job is to make decisions about issuing warnings based on radar signatures. Points are deducted for warnings issued and the amount of time they are in effect. Points are given for reports that verifiy the warnings. Check it out.
…The winter snow season began just before Halloween in the snow belt of western New York around Buffalo. Many of the snow spotters in the Buffalo County Warning Area have already surpassed their normal snow amounts for the entire season and there are two months still to go. Some of the more incredible amounts so far: 86 inches at the NWS BUF; 237 inches at Mayville in Chautauqua; 265 inches at Redfield in Oswego County and 285 inches at Copenhagen in Lewis County.
…Rob Lightbown of Crown Weather Services has published his first look at the 2009 North Atlantic Hurricane season. He predicts 12 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 2 major hurricanes. He thinks that activity will be less than over the past few years because of a developing El Nino. He also cautions that he thinks the East Coast will be at greater risk this year.
