Weather
Wandering albatross gets boost from rising winds
Originally Published by New Scientist – It is a small comfort, given the dire effects climate change is having on birds worldwide, but industrial emissions may be giving the endangered wandering albatross a turbo boost.
Posted on
January 31st, 2012
Biodiversity, Weather
Dust Storm in Texas
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
– A dust storm blows through northern Texas in this natural-color image acquired January 22, 2012.
Posted on
January 25th, 2012
Earth Observation, Weather
La Nina ‘may abet’ flu pandemics
Originally Published by BBC News
– Scientists discover indications of a relationship between La Nina climatic conditions and influenza pandemics.
U.S. sees most severe precipitation extremes on record in 2011 (so far); link to “superjets”?
Originally Published by Washington Post
– Through November, 2011 has experienced the most extensive coverage of severe drought and abnormally wet conditions on record.
Clouds over the Indian Ocean
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
– Three layers of clouds over the Indian Ocean are whipped into holiday shapes in November 2011.
Posted on
December 14th, 2011
Earth Observation, Weather
What’s Causing the Fierce Santa Ana Winds?
Originally Published by LiveScience
– The Santa Ana winds sweeping across Southern California this week are faster and stronger than they have been in at least a decade.
Posted on
December 2nd, 2011
Weather
Tropical Storm Keila
Originally Published by NASA Earth Observatory
– Acquired November 1, 2011, this natural-color image shows Tropical Storm Keila just off the coasts of Yemen and Oman.
Posted on
November 5th, 2011
Earth Observation, Weather
Early East Coast Snowstorm Knocks Out Power for 2.5 Million
Originally Published by ENS
– Dubbed Winter Storm Alfred, a rare October storm dumped lots of wet, heavy snow over the Northeast from Rhode Island to Maine before moving north into Canada late Sunday.
National Weather Service’s Modernization Successful in Improving Science, Forecasts
Originally Published by The National Academies
– The National Weather Service’s program that modernized and restructured operations between 1989 and 2000 led to greater integration of science into weather service activities.
Posted on
October 16th, 2011
Weather
First ‘quadruple rainbow’ imaged
Originally Published by BBC News - Science & Environment
– After a study to determine how to spot them, rainbow hunters capture the first-ever images of “tertiary” and “quaternary” rainbows – a full quartet of colours.
Posted on
October 12th, 2011
Earth Observation, Weather, Would You Believe?
NASA Daily Image
Panorama of the East Coast
This Jan. 29 panorama of much of the East Coast, photographed by one of the Expedition 30 crew members aboard the International Space Station, provides a look generally northeastward: Philadelphia-New York City-Boston corridor (bottom-center); western Lake Ontario shoreline with Toronto (left edge); Montreal (near center). An optical illusion in the photo makes the atmospheric limb and light activity from Aurora Borealis appear "intertwined." Image Credit: NASA