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@BPGlobalPR Offers Words of Wisdom

pmarsh — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:09:13 +0000

For those who began following this blog because of the 365 weather project, this post may seem to be off topic – and it is. The thing is, I use this blog to give my thoughts on matters, in addition to finishing my 365 project. If you would rather I only stick to the weather, [...]

Day 129, part 2: A Follow Up

pmarsh — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:05:49 +0000

If you have not read the first part of tonight’s blog, please consider reading it before continuing with this post. It can be found here: I failed to mention this in my last post and felt it sufficiently important to start a new post. One major thing to take away from my last blog post [...]

Snow Shot of America Website

pmarsh — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:54:14 +0000

Thanks to the hard work by Carnegie Mellon Civil Engineering student, Nick Doiron, I am pleased to announce that a method of efficiently moving the 1000+ photographs from email to Google Maps has been found! The website that will host all of the Snow Shot of America photographs can be viewed here: Snow Shot of [...]

A BIG THANK YOU!!!

pmarsh — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:14:54 +0000

I have received compliments about the success of this project from all over the world. However, the truth is that something of this magnitude could never have happened alone. I am forever indebted to the individuals across the United States who, in the midst of these trying times, took time out of their busy lives [...]

America

pmarsh — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 03:57:37 +0000

“…But an America that’s tired of being the world’s policeman, and is too pinched to be the world’s philanthropist, could still be the world’s partner. And you can’t do that without being, well, loved…The British want to be admired; the Russians, feared; the French, envied. (The Irish, we just want to be listened to.) But [...]

Dissertation Indecision

pmarsh — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:40:51 +0000

For the past two years I have *theoretically* been working on a PhD dissertation in the realm of climate change science – namely, investigating the potential affects of anthropogenic climate change on severe thunderstorm environments. My advisers have been world-renowned scientists in either climate change or severe thunderstorm environments. The downside to all of this [...]

VORTEX II: Day 7

pmarsh — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:55:12 +0000

The armada spent the night in Enid, OK after yesterday’s squall line deployment. Today, a down day, was spent traveling to the central portion of tornado alley where the armada will run practice drills over the next few days in preparation for deployment late in the week. Since today was a down day, I spent [...]

Tornado Warning!

pmarsh — Thu, 14 May 2009 04:11:08 +0000

Sorry, there won’t be a VORTEX II update tonight. The armada chased some interesting storms today and the VORTEX II Operations Center has been under a tornado warning for the past hour or so. I’ll do a formal debrief tomorrow morning and give the account of what happened! Even though I’m here looking out for [...]

3 May 99

pmarsh — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:05:11 +0000

Today marks the ten year anniversary of the second most important event that shaped my interest in meteorology. Sixty-six tornadoes struck Kansas and Oklahoma in an eight hour period. (The following day there were several more tornadoes, including an F4 an hour from where I grew up.) The strongest of the tornadoes on this day [...]

VORTEX II

pmarsh — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:58:02 +0000

VORTEX II (Verification of the Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes EXPeriment) is scheduled to begin on 10 May and last through 13 June. I’ll be manning the VORTEX II Operations Center (VOC) here in Norman on a daily basis. In addition to this, I’m currently writing code (in my spare time) to generate images of [...]