weather
Spring Fashion Tip: What goes with La Niña?
March 3, 2011
Category: A Closer Look
Tags: atmosphere, Cal State L.A., COAST, LaNina-ElNino, Moss Landing Marine Laboratory, oceans, Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State, Weather
Cool waters in eastern Pacific usually portend drier (but not in north), chillier weather for California, CSU scientists report
By Sean Kearns, CSU Public Affairs
Before updating my spring wardrobe to go with this year’s La Niña weather cycle, I asked a meteorologist, “Do I go for sweaters or shorts?
“Definitely sweaters,” Steve LaDochy told me. A geography professor at California State University, Los Angeles, he bases his advice on what he calls “one of the best predictors of California temperatures”: the temperature of the surface waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean. Read more »
When tornados touch down – in California?
March 2, 2011
Category: News & Notes
Tags: San Francisco State, tornados, Weather
With sights on supercell thunderstorms,
SFSU’s Monteverdi tracks twisters
By Sean Kearns, CSU Public Affairs
John Monteverdi enjoys his whirlwind schedule.
Every year, as soon as spring term ends at San Francisco State, he packs up and heads out on his annual tornado safari – which has taken him throughout Texas, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma and beyond in search of supercell thunderstorms.
(About 10 percent of supercells will trigger the sequence of cascading events that spawns a tornado.)
Sometimes, Monteverdi heads out in a major hurry, trying to catch up to a sudden supercell sighting in California.
Wait a minute. Tornados in California? Read more »
