A Bureaucratic Eye on Nature’s Tantrums: The National Hurricane Center, International Edition By Our Correspondent Who Has Weathered Worse Cocktails Than Storms In a pastel office park on the swampy fringes of Miami—an address that ironically requires flood insurance—sits the planet’s most-watched meteorological oracle: the U.S. National Hurricane Center. To Americans it’s the stern voice…
Grey Skies, Green Reckonings: Why the UK’s Next Rain Shower Is the World’s Business By Our Correspondent in a Café That Still Thinks Espresso Is Foreign Muck LONDON—The Met Office has spoken, and the verdict is vintage: low pressure slouching in from the Atlantic, temperatures clinging to the low double digits like a worried parent,…
The Weather, the War, and Sian Welby: How a British Meteorologist Accidentally Became a Global Geopolitical Barometer By Our Correspondent Somewhere Over the North Sea In an age when heads of state can’t be trusted to remember their own countries on a map, it takes a 37-year-old weather presenter from Nottingham to tell us whether…
