http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com science writer and book author Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:18:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-storm-winds http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-storm-winds#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:12:04 +0000 Jack Williams ©2011 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1264 Q: Why doesn’t an extratropical cyclone continue to rotate around a 360-degree axis, like a hurricane?  I’ve always wondered why a cold front begins to the northwest of the low center and then dies out on the northeast side. Why doesn’t it continue to just rotate?  How does the Coriolis effect play into all of [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-storm-winds/feed 1 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/the-other-40th-anniversay http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/the-other-40th-anniversay#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:34:52 +0000 Jack Williams ©2011 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=868 The Page One Cover Story in the Friday, August 14 issue of USA TODAY, “Woodstock: More of a curiosity than a benchmark in 2009?” (online) is just one among the many such stories newspapers, Web sites, and television and radio networks (including NPR) are running to mark  the 40th anniversary of the event. In the [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/the-other-40th-anniversay/feed 0 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/why-humid-air-is-lighter http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/why-humid-air-is-lighter#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:24:56 +0000 Jack Williams ©2011 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=654 Q: Why is humid air less dense than dry air? Matt, LaGrange, Ga. ]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/why-humid-air-is-lighter/feed 1