Something in the Air: Climate System Power: Hurricane Mitch
Hurricane Mitch was the most lethal Atlantic hurricane of modern times. It left nine thousand dead, five hundred seventy thousand homeless, and is estimated to have set back the Honduran infrastructure fifty years. It is a prime example of the extra...
Subject: weather
Transcript: [narrator:] for the most part, the daily weather is a manageable, if occasionally challenging fact of life. but there are times when earth's climate
Something in the Air: Weather Forecasting
In large part due to computer modeling and data from satellites, meteorologists are making significant progress in their efforts to increase both the accuracy and the utility of their forecasts.
Subject: weather
Transcript: [radio weather report] [narrator:] few would disagreethat there remains a great deal yet to be learnedabout climate in general, and atmospheric