http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com science writer and book author Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:51:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-hurricane-rainbands http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-hurricane-rainbands#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 22:05:13 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=2504 Q: Cross-cut figures of hurricanes show a structure like a jelly roll turned on end and sliced through the middle.  Are these rings all connected in a continuous spiral or are they multiple rings? (I suspect they are continuous.) Also, how do they develop in the evolution of a hurricane? That is, why isn’t the hurricane [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-hurricane-rainbands/feed 0 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/metorology-pioneer-joanne-simpson-dies http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/metorology-pioneer-joanne-simpson-dies#comments Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:10:40 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/metorology-pioneer-joanne-simpson-dies Joanne Simpson, a world-renowned atmospheric scientist who led the way for today’s many women meteorologists, died on Thursday, March 4, in Washington, D.C. She and her husband Robert (Bob) Simpson, who survives her, were a rare example of a wife and husband who were both leaders in the same scientific field.  In The AMS Weather [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/metorology-pioneer-joanne-simpson-dies/feed 1 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/hurricane-story-full-of-holes http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/hurricane-story-full-of-holes#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:58:37 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=815 USA TODAY,  ABC News, and probably other news outlets have published reports that Bill Gates and others have filed patent applications for a plan to weaken hurricanes. In brief, the proposal is to have a fleet of ships equipped to pump warm water from near the surface of a tropical ocean in the path of [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/hurricane-story-full-of-holes/feed 1 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/hurricane-shutters-and-fire http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/hurricane-shutters-and-fire#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 21:20:58 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=573 ]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/hurricane-shutters-and-fire/feed 0 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/weather-links-hurricanes http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/weather-links-hurricanes#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 01:52:03 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=505 If  you live along the U.S. Gulf or Atlantic coasts, or just want to keep up with hurricanes or other kinds of tropical cyclones elsewhere in the world, the links below will take you directly to information you need or want. Atlantic Basin Forecasts and Outlooks To learn whether a tropical depression, tropical storm, or [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/weather-links-hurricanes/feed 2