News tagged with severe storm

Warmer planet temperatures could cause longer-lasting weather patterns

Whether it's never-ending heat waves or winter storms, atmospheric blocking can have a significant impact on local agriculture, business and the environment. Although these stagnant weather patterns are often ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 18, 2010 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (28) | comments 47 | with audio podcast

Rising air pollution worsens drought, flooding, study shows

Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can strongly affect cloud development in ways that reduce precipitation in dry regions or seasons, while increasing rain, snowfall ...

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created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Floods to become commonplace by 2080

Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (16) | comments 11

World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads for Great Plains (w/Videos)

The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the Great Plains to gain a better understanding ...

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created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

New satellite data reveals true decline of world's mangrove forests

New satellite imagery has given scientists the most comprehensive and exact data on the distribution and decline of mangrove forests from across the world. The research, carried out by scientists from the U.S Geological Survey ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 18, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Mumbai, Miami on list for big weather disasters

(AP) -- Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NASA Studies Recent Storms to Improve Space Based Global Weather Monitoring

The evening sky above Huntsville, Ala., held an eerie look on Thursday, Jan. 21, but few knew looming overhead was an EF-2 tornado waiting to descend on a downtown neighborhood. The Huntsville storm system ...

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created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Changes in weather patterns creating more severe storms

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Kansas State University climate expert attributes the increase in the number and severity of tornadoes and severe storms in 2011 to a change in weather patterns.

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created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7

CU Engineers Make First 'Supercell' Storm Intercept With Unmanned Aircraft System (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Faculty and students from the University of Colorado at Boulder's Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles teamed with researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the first interception ...

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created May 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers capture impressive tornadic data and images

At the University of Oklahoma, researchers captured unprecedented high-resolution radar data during the May 10, 2010, tornadoes using one of the most advanced weather radars in the world.

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created May 21, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

TRMM satellite sees deadly tornadic thunderstorms in Southeastern US

Tornadoes are expected to accompany severe storms in the springtime in the U.S., but this time of year they also usually happen. When a line of severe thunderstorms associated with a cold front swept through ...

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created Nov 18, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients for Atlanta's Perfect Storm (Video)

On March 14, 2008, a tornado swept through downtown Atlanta, its 130 mile-per-hour winds ripping holes in the roof of the Georgia Dome, blowing out office windows and trashing parts of Centennial Olympic Park. ...

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created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A day in the life of Doppler-on-wheels

'Tis the season ... for snow. Thundersnow.

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created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0