Da-da doesn't know about where you live, but at Da-da's it's been regularly 10 degrees hotter than the forecasted high nearly every day for the past year, and the weather svs rarely records the actual high temps. Then there's this latest bit of happy news on the Western snowpack. Anyone ...

The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) satellite launched last month in a brilliant pre-dawn display from the Western Range at Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Delta II rocket. I first mentioned NPP just before Hurricane Irene in a post about the weather satellites that are ...

The day left brown oak leaves littered across the orange brickwork like a dried and forgotten fire. Their shadows twisted and turned as they flirted with the lamplight and teased my tongue with longings of pumpkin, nutmeg, and the slightest hint of cinnamon. Then the rain fell and they curled ...

Early on Friday morning the night sky was brightened around Vandenberg Air Force Base by the launch of a Delta II rocket carrying the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project, or NPP, satellite into space. This marks the start of the next generation of space-based weather and ...

It’s right there in my byline, Geek Moms! “Ask her why the sky is blue at your own risk.”  I say that because sometimes my answers to weather questions might make your eyes roll. I picture that I might look like Brainy Smurf, complete with my right forefinger up in ...

This old house is now an obstacle course full of twists and turns and too many boxes.  But it is new to us, and what we see as an overwhelming feat is overwhelming much smaller feet with adventure and promise. Overwhelming, it seems, means different things to different people. There ...

I can’t stand it when it’s hot. I hate it. I get irritable, weak, headachy, swampy and dumb. Ironically, I was born and raised in L.A. (not exactly one of the chilliest parts of the world), but I’m half English and half Russian body-wise. Genes definitely trump “where you grew ...

I do not need to see the paint to know it is there — a fresh coat of white where once grew the notches of their youth. Memories written in pencil tend to be erased, and those are the things you never like to think about. It was a trace ...

It’s a well-known fact that I live each week like it’s Shark Week. The only thing that changes is the shark. Or my underpants, depending on said shark. This week is no different, but instead of contemplating the circle of life we’re looking at some of the other fish in ...

...has been moved to Da-da's occasional science-y blog, "SCIENCE HAS BEEN DRINKING." This kinda stuff doesn't really mesh with the low-cranial pressure Mr. Mom affliction, so Da-da has roughed out a landing strip to see what might show up -- inverted ...