National Sky Awareness Week (SAW) 2022 is on the not-too-distant horizon (April 24-30). As always, the week-long celebration of the sky (clouds, optical phenomena, planets, and stars) affords all an opportunity to appreciate sky beauty, to understand sky and weather processes, and to work together to protect the sky as
Read DetailsWEATHERTORIAL: The following opinions are mine alone. This weathertorial has been shared with local officials and others. Working outside and lightning don’t mix! That’s a hardened lightning safety rule that hasn’t changed in decades. Lightning safety was emphasized in an editorial in the Naples Daily News yesterday (May 13, 2015).
Read DetailsWEATHERTORIAL: The following opinions are mine alone. This weathertorial has been shared with local governmental officials in the Naples to Cape Coral area. On July 22, 2014, lightning claimed one life and injured two on a Fort Myers, FL beach. Almost immediately, cries for beach lightning detection systems surfaced and…To
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