Storm
Dunlop
Blogs and other contributions
A fairly recent development involves requests for
contributions to various websites and to publishers’ and others’ blogs. There
have been a number of these and a few are listed here.
In
2010, the BBC ran a series of programmes entitled Wild Weather. To accompany these, they asked the Royal Meteorological Society to put them in
touch with individual members in every English county, who would write
something about the prevailing weather and severe weather episodes in that
particular county. (The omission of Scotland and Wales was noted, but they were
not prepared to extend the programmes to cover the whole of Britain.) I was
asked to write about the weather of Sussex and, subsequently, Dorset, when a
suitable person could not be found in time.
The
two pieces may be found here: Sussex
Weather and: Dorset
Weather
(Regrettably, the BBC did not credit me with the Sussex item, despite
being asked to do so by the Royal Meteorological Society when the omission was
noticed.)
Oxford University Press carry
items of topical relevance (anniversaries and the like) and also a far-reaching
blog on words, their
meanings, and usage – as might be expected from such an eminent publisher of
dictionaries and reference works. Two items that I have contributed – one
specifically written for World Meteorology Day in March 2012 – also discussed
the usage of words and now form part of the ‘OxfordWords’ blog archive: ‘What’s
the problem with meteorology?’ and ‘Name that
Cloud’. A similar item (on ‘Space Weather’) is now
online.
Another
contribution on ‘Rain’,
has appeared recently, linked to World Water Day (22 March 2013) and World
Meteorology Day (23 March 2013).
My
publishers, HarperCollins, have published blogs to coincide with publication of
some of my works. Some of these are not on the main HarperCollins site, but instead are
on the Collins Dictionary site
under ‘Word Lovers
blog’. For the publication of the 2016
Guide to the Night Sky, the blog may be found here.
Two separate blogs were prepared for the special promotion of Astronomy Photographer of the Year
(Collection 4) and of the Collins
Planisphere and the 2016 Guide to the
Night Sky. The promotion (and chance to win a copy of the Astronomy Photographer volume and a
camera are here.
My two contributions may be found from that link or, directly, Part
1 here and Part
2 here.
The Cloud
Appreciation Society actively promotes the enjoyment of all forms of clouds
(even the dark grey ones), and I was asked to write a short piece on
photographing clouds. It may be found here: ‘Photographing
the Sky’
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