End of an era: Weather Underground’s Category 6 blog to close shop this month
By Bob Henson
9 June 2020
(Weather Underground) – After a run of 15 years, Category 6—originally Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog—will publish its final post on June 19, as The Weather Company shifts resources to other weather and climate efforts. [Desdemona has been cribbing from Category 6 for more than ten years and is sad to see this great blog retire. Fortunately, Bob Henson and Dr. Jeff Masters continue their good work at Yale Climate Connections. –Des]
I’m tremendously sad to be leaving this platform and community that I have come to know and love during my five-plus years on board. When he launched this wunderground blog in 2005, Jeff established a high bar for accessible discussion of tropical cyclones, and eventually many other spheres of weather and climate. I learned a vast amount working with Jeff through his departure in the fall of 2019 (see my tribute to Jeff) and I hope I’ve met his high standards in keeping things going since then. I’ve also learned a great deal from the insights contributed by our pool of regular commenters. I am especially glad we’ve been able to give voice to the reality and gravity of human-caused climate change, and to stress society’s ability to turn the ship around—a task that’s incredibly daunting but not yet impossible.
I am also happy to announce that you will be able to follow Jeff and me at a new home. Jeff has agreed to take a new volunteer gig writing for the prestigious website Yale Climate Connections. His “Eye on the Storm” blog begins there today (“Sea-level rise likely to swallow many coastal mangrove forests“) and he plans to perform his usual daily updates on Atlantic disturbances and named storms during the heat of the hurricane season. [more]
