Weather
Drought Hits Spain’s Wheat Crop
- Wheat production is poised to drop 20 percent after a dry winter.
Posted on
May 12th, 2012
Agriculture, Earth Observation, Weather
DC3: Chemistry of thunderstorms
Originally Published by ScienceDaily - The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field campaign will use an airport in Salina, Kansas, as a base to explore the impact of large thunderstorms on the concentration of ozone and other substances in the upper troposphere.
Posted on
May 11th, 2012
Earth Observation, Weather
Global warming heats up tornado debate
- Speculation is rife that a recent glut of killer tornadoes is a sign of rising temperatures.
Heat Waves Extra Bad If You’re Old, Not White, Female, or Poor
- Mother Jones examines who is effected the most by heat waves.
Warm Weather Puts Trees On Fast Forward
Originally Published by ScienceDaily - Unseasonably warm temperatures have brought on an unusually early spring across the eastern United States.
Posted on
March 21st, 2012
Biodiversity, Weather
View from space: 2012 snow cover compared to 2011 snow cover
Originally Published by earthsky - Two MODIS snow cover maps show the difference between snow extent in North America on March 3, 2011 and on March 5, 2012.
Posted on
March 19th, 2012
Earth Observation, Weather
Little damage from scary Cyclone Lua
- Tropical Cyclone Lua slammed into the Western Australian coastline with winds of up to 220kmh, but left minimal damage in its wake.
Twister slams same area hit by killer storm in ’11
Originally Published by SF Chronicle - Tornadoes swept across the heartland of the United States on Friday, leaving a trail of death and destruction their path.
Tornadoes Sweep across Midwest and Appalachians
- The interaction of warm and wet air from the Gulf of Mexico with the cold and dry jet stream caused an outbreak of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the eastern U.S.
Posted on
March 5th, 2012
Disasters, Earth Observation, Weather
Illinois Town All Too Versed in Taking a Hit
Originally Published by NY Times - A tornado that tore Harrisburg, Illinois, killed six people about injured 100 on Wednesday. At least six other people died in the storms' paths.
NASA Daily Image
Opportunity's Traverse Map From Sol 2951