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/rain-turns-weatherjack-into-gearheadjack http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/rain-turns-weatherjack-into-gearheadjack#comments Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:23:48 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1949 Although I’ve focused on writing about meteorology and other atmospheric sciences since 1982, I’ve never passed up a chance to write about auto racing. An April 3, 2010 story on the BBC Web site from the Malaysian Formula One race, “McLaren & Ferrari rue rain errors,” gives me an opportunity to get into how not [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/rain-turns-weatherjack-into-gearheadjack/feed 0 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/snowy-science-lessons http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/snowy-science-lessons#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:43:11 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1778 From the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 5 through the afternoon of Tuesday Feb. 9, I spent roughly eight hours shoveling snow, thanks to the record-breaking “Snowmageddon” that brought two to three feet–in some cases even more–of snow to the Washington, D.C. area. Shoveling snow is a good time to think about the science of winter [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/snowy-science-lessons/feed 2 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-inside-weather-fronts http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-inside-weather-fronts#comments Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:29:58 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1337 Q: In the November issue of AOPA Flight Training, you discuss extratropical cyclones, including the movement of cold air under warm air and vice versa. If I understand this correctly, the fronts themselves do not discriminate between the cold or warm air ahead of them.  How  do you explain movement under (cold into warm) or [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-inside-weather-fronts/feed 1 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-extratropical-cyclone-winds http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-extratropical-cyclone-winds#comments Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:31:45 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=1199 Q: My question is about your article in the November  AOPA Flight Training magazine on tropical cyclones.  I’m trying to reconcile two potentially different ideas: first, that a cyclone has swirling air (which I assume to mean the the air masses are rotating around the Low), and second, that the warm front and cold front [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/answers-extratropical-cyclone-winds/feed 1 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/jack-promotes-book-in-the-midwest http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/jack-promotes-book-in-the-midwest#comments Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:15:05 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=839 CHICAGO — Two Chicago television stations interviewed Jack Williams on July 28 about The AMS Weather Book. First, Tom Skilling interviewed Jack on his WGN TV  Midday News weather  show.  In his promo for the interview, Skilling said: “A terrific new book on the weather and climate has hit the nation’s book stands and we [...]]]> http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/jack-promotes-book-in-the-midwest/feed 0 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/ask-jack-weather-textbook http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/ask-jack-weather-textbook#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:26:45 +0000 Jack Williams ©2012 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/?p=751 http://www.weatherjackwilliams.com/archives/ask-jack-weather-textbook/feed 4 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