Archive for snow
wildlife photography of the year
Posted in Statistics with tags bison, snow, USA, wild American bison, wildlife, wildlife photography, winter, Yellowstone national park on October 22, 2019 by xi'an
Chamonix snapshot #2 [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running with tags Aiguille du Midi, Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, French Alps, jatp, snow, sunset, winter light on March 10, 2018 by xi'an
Wind of Okhotsk [photograph]
Posted in Books with tags Abashiri, Hokkaido, Japan, landscape photography, snow, winter on February 18, 2018 by xi'an
self-portrait on a railway board [jatp]
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags Drôme, jatp, Marseille, snow, TGV, train, Université Aix Marseille on December 31, 2017 by xi'an
amber warning
Posted in Statistics with tags Austin, England, running, snow, University of Warwick, Warwickshire, weather forecasters on December 10, 2017 by xi'anJust saw this severe Met warning of snow over Warwickshire and neighbouring counties… The campus is indeed covered with snow, but not that heavily. Yet. (It is comparatively mild in Austin, Texas, even though the icy wind turned my fingers to iciles during my morning run there!)
Amber warning of snow
- From: 0810 on Sun 10 December
- To: 1800 on Sun 10 December
Updated 6 hours ago Active
A spell of heavy snow is likely over parts of Wales, the Midlands and parts of Northern and Eastern England on Sunday.
Road, rail and air travel delays are likely, as well as stranding of vehicles and public transport cancellations. There is a good chance that some rural communities could become cut off.This is an update to extend the warning area as far south as Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Essex.
at the foot of Monte Rosa
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags climbing, Dufourspitze, hiking, Italia, Macugnana, Monte Rosa, rain, running, snow, Switzerland on August 16, 2017 by xi'an
After last-year failed attempt at climbing a summit in the Monte Rosa group, we came back for hiking on the “other side” of Monte Rosa, at the Italian foot of Dufourspitze with less ambitious plans of hiking around this fantastic range. Alas the weather got set against us and thunderstorms followed one another, making altitude hikes unreasonable because of the fresh snow and frequent fog, and lower altitude walks definitely unpleasant, turning the trails into creeks.
While we had many nice chats with local people in a mixture of French and Italian, and sampled local cheese and beers, this still felt like a bit of a wasted vacations week, especially when remembering how reasonable the weather had been the week before in Scotland. However, all things considered, the previous week had seen a deadly heat wave cross the south of Europe that very week, so I should not be complaining about rain and snow! And running a whole week checking the altimeter instead of the chronometer is a nice experience.
Fourth Bayesian, Fiducial, and Frequentist Conference
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Bayesian Analysis, Cambridge, Error-Statistical philosophy, foundations, Harvard University, Philosophy of Science, snow, Statistics done wrong on March 29, 2017 by xi'an
Next May 1-3, I will attend the 4th Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist Conference at Harvard University (hopefully not under snow at that time of year), which is a meeting between philosophers and statisticians about foundational thinking in statistics and inference under uncertainty. This should be fun! (Registration is now open.)
