Weather stations, whether manual or automatic, are the unsung heroes of meteorology. Through a blend of scientific principles and technological innovations, they provide us with real-time weather ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Meteorologists use many different instruments to observe and forecast the weather. Some sit at the surface… others remain far above the ground, all are important in knowing and ...

Students ask me this question a lot at local career days throughout the school year: “Miss... (pointing at the anemometer I have up on the screen), what does THAT thing do?” It typically leads to a ...

NASA’s GOES satellites have provided 50 years of continuous geostationary monitoring, delivering real-time weather, environmental hazard, and space weather data to support forecasts, emergency ...

A PAPER read recently in London by Dr. G. F. Tagg before the Institution of Electrical Engineers has for its theme the fact that one cause of errors in indicating and recording instruments is their ...

Researchers have developed a set of diode-based lidar instruments that could help fill important gaps in meteorological observations and fuel a leap in understanding, modeling and predicting weather ...

Years ago my mother had a Heathkit “Marine Depth Sounder” that also could (in theory) help locate fish. This fish finder used a rotating disk and a small neon light that indicated depth. Mom could ...

Texas, the birthplace of Western swing, has been the musical cradle for performers who play country, blues, pop, jazz, polka and traditional Mexican music. But Texas weather isn’t as kind to their ...