Doomwatch!… Doomwatch 13 June 2025 13 Jun 2025 First, the elephant in the living room, the Israeli attack on Iran: Otherwise, no comment. On to a marginally safer topic. Tropical Storm Wutip (WP012025) is skirting the west coast…
Politics… Alvin fades, watching lake BOWSONO 30 May 20251 Jun 2025 Tropical Storm Alvin! is already fading, as it encounters wind shear and cooler waters. Here's the TAOS(tm) TC impact estimate; unless there is damage from flash flooding (always possible in…
Politics… Rafael a cat 3, Yinxing leaves the Philippines, Savannah floods (again) 8 Nov 20248 Nov 2024 Rafael is a pretty impressive Category Three storm this morning, here in IR since the sun isn't up ... click to embiggen. The storm is expected to do a loop…
Politics… Tropics updates and Election outlook update (26 Oct) 26 Oct 202426 Oct 2024 Still tracking storms around the world ... Kristy is weakening off the coast of Mexico ... as always, click any image to embiggen. Dana went ashore in India, causing some…
Politics… Election day hurricane? probably a good idea to take advantage of early voting in the Southeast. 25 Oct 202425 Oct 2024 Long time followers are well aware that I don't get too animated about storms until they are at least an invest area, and don't advocate taking precipitous actions too far…
Politics… Invest in Atlantic, Columbus Day, Election (Notes for 14 October 2024) 14 Oct 2024 For a region battered by two major storms in just a few weeks, an invest area with a blob of doom that looks like this is unwelcome: Throw in a…
Politics Another fruitless plea for civility … 15 Jul 202425 Oct 2024 Administrative Note: Lately I've been trying to stay out of domestic politics because it is so toxic, and we've just about gone past the point where Americans can disagree without…
Foreign Policy… Space Nukes, Navalny and the most important issue of the day: Assange 17 Feb 202418 Feb 2024 Very busy week in the geopolitical realm. By most reports the Ukrainian armed forces are being absolutely hammered and the Avdeevka sector has collapsed. It has been used as a…
Foreign Policy… Storms local and global (14 Dec 2023) 14 Dec 202314 Dec 2023 TLDR: There will be a strong nor'easter like storm moving across north Florida and offshore from Coastal Georgia this weekend. It doesn't look to be a big deal, just a…
Foreign Policy… Nuclear arms race 2.0: more dangerous than the original? 8 Nov 202313 Apr 2024 I'm sure a lot of you are saying "Not This Again!" ... or the likely corollary, "Not Him Again!" when you hear I've done another podcast with Nate Hagens at…
