Tag: Weather
Today marks the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, the category 1 storm that walloped New York City on October 29, 2012, transforming sections of the most advanced metropolis on the planet into a semi-third world country and causing lots of headaches. There were blackouts, gas shortages, ruined homes, shuttered schools, garbage pile-ups, otherwordly sand mounds, […]
This summer has been pretty nice so far, by NYC standards, with sporadic and bearable heat waves and most of the extreme weather consisting of freak thunderstorms. Lucky 2014. Prepare yourselves for Nelly to make a big comeback, ’cause it’s getting hot in here in the future. Climate Central has created an interactive map that shows […]
A small German company Blitzortung has created a real time map of lightning strikes over much of the world, all for free. Their spread out detectors help them determine the location of a lightning strike in seconds. The Vane explains: Let’s say there’s a thunderstorm over Dallas and a brilliant bolt of lightning strikes the center of […]
It’s been a cold, snowy winter, and every time a warm few days threatens to melt the perpetual snow cover, another storm comes and drops more. Based on data from the National Weather Service, the New York Times created this nifty animated infographic that tracks the amount of snow on the ground across the five boroughs and […]
Street artist BAMN created this witty temporary piece at Hancock and Broadway near the Bushwick/Bed Stuy border, uploading photos to his Flickr over the weekend. “This blows,” it reads, with snow arranged to look like lines of, well, you know. It even sports a giant, rolled-up dollar bill. (Photos: BAMN) […]
In the above grainy surveillance footage, a New York City snow plow drives down Austin Street, in Forest Hills, Queens, past the Exo Cafe, and all hell breaks loose. It looks like a small bomb going off. According to police, the plow struck a garbage can and sent it through the restaurant’s windows, sending three […]
When Bill de Blasio addressed his decision not to close New York City schools for yesterday’s snowstorm, he pointed to history, noting that the city has only closed schools for snow 11 times since 1978. “Unlike some cities, we don’t shut down in the face of adversity,” he argued. “I’m going to make decisions based […]
In the surveillance video above, we see a pedestrian walking down Coney Island Avenue in Sheepshead Bay, minding his own business, when two snow plows drive by. The first passes without incident, but moments later, the second sends a tidal wave of snow and slush barreling toward the sidewalk, sweeping up our hero and knocking […]
The most frustrating part of Bill de Blasio’s mea culpa about the “botched” plow job on the Upper East Side after the snowstorm was that by apologizing, the mayor was privileging the wealthy UES over the city’s other snowbound neighborhoods. He played right into the New York Post’s weather class warfare non-narrative, despite the fact […]
Fog, like snow, is a weather phenomenon that sometimes happens in New York. Today, it happened to a degree that is perhaps unusual for New Yorkers but quite familiar to our friends in the Pacific Northwest. Lots of people took pictures. That’s one of them above. (Photo: Jennifer Gormley/Poynter) […]
