July/August 2010: In This Issue

Mega-Snow in the Megalopolis: The Mid-Atlantic’s Blockbuster Winter of 2009-2010

by Jeffrey B. Halverson and Thomas D. Rabenhorst

It sounds like a worst-case scenario: Four crippling storms, each producing widespread 10 to 20-inch swaths of snow across the Mid-Atlantic, arriving back-to-back within a single season.
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Global Cooling: Science and Myth

by Jason M. Vogel and Brian Lazar

Although global warming receives the most attention in the debate over climate change, a core group of skeptics have mounted a strong backlash against the scientific consensus.
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Blue Skies and Green Screens: The History of Weathercasting Graphics
by Robert Henson
Weather Warnings: History in Action
by Mike Smith
Weatherwatch: March/April 2010
by Brad Rippey, Jeffrey B. Halverson, Heather Angeloff, Blake Moore, Ted Fathauer, Anton Prechtel, Richard Thoman and Graham Saunders
On the Job: Steve Deyo
by Kimbra Cutlip
Retrospect: July 10, 1913
by Sean Potter
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Forecast Center
by Tim Vasquez
From the Editor
by Margaret Benner
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Weather Front
by Kimbra Cutlip
Weatherscapes
by Ed Darack
Weather Queries
by Tom Schlatter
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