A breezy history of four strategies for measuring the weather.
Karyn Sawyer: A Hidden Gem of Atmospheric Science
Overcoming snakes, men, and other obstacles so science can happen around the world.
Airline Meteorology through History
Air travel delays? These scientists have tried to reduce them.
Book Excerpt: 'Feminists Prevail; Meet the Himmicane'
The people and protests that made meteorology less sexist also provoked a predictable reaction.
Covering Baseball like Climate Science
The Boston Red Sox’s lead in the World Series has risen by one win, according to a report issued today by Major League Baseball.
Their Baby is a Bomb, 1959
How the defense industry framed itself as father, protector, creator.
Picturing Meteorologists at Work
It’s a lot of pointing.
Reading the White
Unlocking the secrets of a boring document, avidly read.
Reading Trump’s NOAA Budget
The escape plan hidden inside a kidnapper’s manifesto.
The Instrumental Chemist Released
A gorgeous new film about the inventor behind air pollution instruments.
Ask an Expert: How Snow Days Happen
How do school officials think about winter weather?
Book Excerpt: 'The Spray King of the West'
How famers and crop dusters reimagined aerial pesticides in the late 1940s.
Presenting Infrastructural Science
How to notice the invisible science that keeps the modern world functioning.
Join the Battle Against Air Pollution!
Discover the vanguard of a scientific revolution.
Big Data and Tiny Type, 1960
Managing the products of a “big data collecting binge.”
John Tyndall, Atmospheric Researcher. Part 2: The Water Vapour Dispute with Gustav Magnus
How a decades-long argument over a lab experiment threatened progress in meteorology.
John Tyndall, Atmospheric Researcher. Part 1: Carbon Dioxide and Fog Horns
How a key figure in climate science invented “demoralised and brutalised sirens.”
G.I. Dinner, Christmas 1943
A tiny note fortuitously preserved reveals how food helped "Keep 'em Flying."
Holiday Gift Idea: The Original Incredible Weather String, 1976
Punk the weather lover in your life.
Cannon Attacks the Weather Bureau, 1907
History's most powerful congressman blamed forecasters for his cold.