Yesterday, a demolition team brought down the remaining structure of the collapsed Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida. The death count is now at 27, with 118 people still unaccounted for. Since the devastating building collapse on June 26, engineers, scientists, and policy-makers have been trying to make sense of how this happened—and if […]
City of Madison Warns Residents About Excessive Salt Use
This week’s snowfall marks the first snow of the winter in Madison, and with temperatures below 32 degrees it likely won’t melt until tomorrow. While the City of Madison works to keep the sidewalks and roads clean, and Madison residents are picking up shovels and spreading salt in order to help, Madison officials are warning […]
The Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change with Robert Henson...
With the energy of the Global Climate Strike still buzzing, today we spend the hour getting a fuller picture of climate change: the science, the politics, the solutions. Our guest is Robert Henson, author of the newly revised Thinking Person’s Guide to Climate Change from the American Meteorological Society. Robert Henson is a meteorologist and […]
Rob McClure’s Weather Forecast
Some of Rob McClure’s favorite weather and climate resources: Hourly Forecast Graph or Hourly Numerical Data. These will provide a much higher-resolution view of the predicted weather to come than most NWS forecast products; they give the forecaster’s best prediction for future hour-by-hour readings of temperature, sky cover, wind speed and direction, precipitation potential, and […]
Climate Change and Paris
The Perpetual Notion Machine has done a fair share of episodes dealing with climate change. And tonight’s show is no exception, considering that the U.S. opted out of the Paris Climate Agreement. So, PNM’s Lincoln Tice talks with UW-Madison’s Jonathan Martin, a professor and chair of atmospheric and oceanic sciences. His research specialty is mid-latitude […]
Storm Chasing in Wisconsin
In tonight’s episode of the Perpetual Notion Machine, we continue with the theme of weather as PNM’er Dennis Shaffer talks with Wisconsin storm chaser Justin Poublon from Oshkosh. But, first, we’d like to thank all of you who made pledges during the show. Please, keep supporting us by clicking the “Donate” button on this website. […]
