The magazine for the
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
at
Iowa State University
link
Connecting LAS alumni and friends
Site Menu
Archives
Alumni
Make a gift.
Menu
Search
Weather
categories:
Link
,
Supplemental story
Why is weather so hard to predict accurately?
This is a supplement to the story Cyclones in the Forecast. It is a common mystery that elicits complaints and questions — why does the weather forecaster in the media sometimes get it wrong? Maybe “chance of showers” turned into […]
Link Winter 2018
Cyclones in the forecast
As storms sweep across a landscape, forecasters have mere minutes to predict their direction and intensity — and to issue warnings to the public. To meet the extreme time constraints, they need the latest meteorological tools — tools developed by […]