View Poll: #1409970 Also, step out of the comfort zone of the west coast and jump into the cool Atlantic! ;) Tropical Atlantic Hurricane Season 2009 polls close soon, and as some of you might be interested in voting or seeing the responses... Vote here! And here!

twc_aficionados is another great community. Here's a description of the group: This community was started by some Weather Channel fans a few years ago who wanted to see a TWC-related community that wasn't just foofy fan-girl/fan-boy driven, but rather came with some focus on the *science* of weather and climate, serious articles, real debates, weather and climate news, political implications...

Norbert's winds are down to 85mph for the 8pm update...the storm is being shreaded by shear, although in the last hour another blowup of thunderstorms has erupted around the northern side of the center...although the southern half of the system is being hit hard. The system should make landfall on the southern coast of Sonora in another hour or two near its current intensity. A storm surge of 5-7ft...

floundah at twc_aficionados says: NASA's Terra satellite was rounding the top of the globe, making its way from the eastern tip of Siberia and across the Arctic Ocean towards northern Norway and northwest Russia, when it captured this unique view of a total solar eclipse on Aug. 1, 2008. In the area shown in the image, the sun was completely obscured for about two minutes. As...

A year in Anarctica via twc_aficionados . "Time-lapse video filmed in Antarctica, in and around McMurdo Station and Scott Base. Each year the sun is below the horizon for 4 months in the middle of winter, and above the horizon for 4 months in summer. During the couple of months in between we have more-or-less normal days. Includes shots of auroras and the very rare polar stratospheric...

From floundah at twc_aficionados : This is a composite of four images combined to show the illuminated crescent of Earth and the cities of the northern hemisphere. There are lots of details at the link . :)

Hope this is alright to post. Corpus, you are now under a Hurricane Warning. Large Tropical Storm Dolly is slowly organizing more, and working on becoming a hurricane. Landfall is expected within 50-100 miles either side of Brownsville, Tx, with the strongest impacts expected to be felt just within and north of where the center comes ashore. If you're interested in following this storm, feel...

Bertha reverts to hurricane status en route to . . . Iceland?

Just promoting my favorite LJ weather group. twc_aficionados Ahead of the storm! Come join our group of prognosticators! Plenty of pretty pictures (Yours truly is in charge on posting them), discussions, both fun and learned, and polls. It also looks like it may be a busy hurricane season this year, so we keep tabs on that too.

Nebraska's getting walloped ? This is really an astonishing weather year in the US. It's really, really scary in the midwest and Great Plains this summer.