Ian Livingston

Ian Livingston is a D.C. based researcher and weather blogger who has helped develop several popular weather discussion and analysis web sites since the late 1990s. Follow him on Twitter @islivingston
Climate
Colorado May Have Broken Its All-Time High Temperature Record in July
Colorado’s all-time record high temperature may have fallen in July. A 115-degree reading was taken near Las Animas in southeast parts of the state. If and when verified, it’s set to best the old mark of 114 degrees. It was something of an accidental finding, a reminder that every now and then the Internet shows us why we all thought it was awesome in the first place. I was playing with some data from the Applied Climate Information System (ACIS), as I often do, when I came across it. In this c
Opinion
The Online Weather World Should Take a Chill Pill, Before an Actual Disaster Strikes
Posted by @islivingston and @brendansweather Weather is big business. A roar of competing voices has been increasingly evident lately, and more is likely to come. It's an odd mix of commodity and potential disaster. The science -- while moving forward at a continual great speed [http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mike-smith-the-invisible-successes-of-meteorology/2013/11/19/42520ad4-5142-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.htm