Michael on August 31st, 2008

OK, so I’ve gathered some data from weather stations along the gulf coast to try and determine where Hurricane Gustav will hit, at least from my predictions. Now the only caveat to this methodology is that the local weather forecaster who relies only on his own instrumentation and observations might not come up with [...]

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Michael on August 31st, 2008

Well, I’ve been gone for a few weeks from this blogging project. Suffice it to say after my last post we saw about two weeks of rain. It didn’t rain the entire time, but it rained pretty much every day for about two weeks. To be honest, it’s the wettest August weather [...]

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Michael on August 11th, 2008

OK, it’s time to get busy forecasting the weather. Here’s what I’m doing step-by-step, so you can follow along.
The first thing I’m doing is checking the barometric pressure. While the barometer may rise and fall each day, the general trend is what we are looking for here. The barometer has been falling [...]

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