Worry more about Irene's water than storm's wind
(AP) -- Forget the wind and fury. Hurricane Irene's most worrisome weapon is water.
Earth Sciences
Aug 27, 2011
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Thunderstorms in Beatriz show strengthening toward hurricane status
Tropical Storm Beatriz developed from a low pressure area that NASA was watching last week. Beatriz is now expected to reach hurricane force and hit western coastal Mexico today and tomorrow. NASA satellite imagery today ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2011
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NASA's TRMM satellite saw heavy rainfall in supercell that spawned Joplin tornado
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sunday May 22, 2011, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured an image of the rainfall rate in the supercell thunderstorm that generated the deadly twister that struck Joplin, ...
Earth Sciences
May 25, 2011
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Fire and rain: Fed scientists point to wild April
(AP) -- April was a historic month for wild weather in the United States, and it wasn't just the killer tornado outbreak that set records, according to scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Environment
May 10, 2011
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Heavy May snowfall takes Iceland by surprise
Iceland saw its first May snowfall for almost a decade over the weekend, with more than 16 centimetres falling on the capital Reykjavik, meteorologists said Sunday.
Earth Sciences
May 2, 2011
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Tornadoes whipped up by wind, not climate: officials
US meteorologists warned Thursday it would be a mistake to blame climate change for a seeming increase in tornadoes in the wake of deadly storms that have ripped through the US south.
Earth Sciences
Apr 28, 2011
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'Climategate' undermined belief in global warming among many TV meteorologists, study shows
A new paper by George Mason University researchers shows that 'Climategate' -- the unauthorized release in late 2009 of stolen e-mails between climate scientists in the U.S. and United Kingdom -- undermined belief in global ...
Environment
Feb 22, 2011
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Scientists use storm-chasing weather radar to track bat populations
Storm chasers have become bat watchers. A scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, working with meteorologists at the University of Oklahoma, is using mobile storm-chasing radars to follow swarms of bats as ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 18, 2011
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Russia's Kamchatka volcanoes calm after eruptions
(AP) -- Two volcanoes that erupted on the far-eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, blanketing a town with dust and spreading ash clouds across the Pacific, have mostly stopped spewing ash and flights are no longer diverted, Russian ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 29, 2010
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Scientists try to harness super-winds that once carried bombs
The man from the Forest Service burst into the switchboard room with orders for the young operator. Keep quiet, he told Cora Conner, 16. Stay put.
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Aug 20, 2010
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