News tagged with severe storms

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 ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

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

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

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

NASA satellite movie shows movement of tornadic weather system

A satellite animation of NOAA's GOES-13 satellite imagery showed the movement of the front that triggered severe storms and tornadoes in several states on February 29, 2012. Today, NASA released a GOES satellite ...

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created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Another severe weather system seen on satellite movie from NASA

Another powerful weather system is moving through the central and eastern U.S., generating more severe weather. NASA created an animation of data from NOAA's GOES-13 satellite that shows the frontal system ...

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created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

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

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

GOES satellite follows tracks of powerful U.S. storm

A powerful storm system with a history of severe weather continues to march across the U.S. and toward the east coast today. The low and associated cold front was captured in a two-day animation of GOES-13 satellite imagery.

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created Apr 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

Global research chief sees rice boom in Africa

Subsaharan Africa could double or triple rice yields and one day even export to Asia where urban sprawl and rising sea levels threaten paddies, a global research chief said Monday.

Biology / Other

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Inside a snowstorm: Scientists obtain close-up look at Old Man Winter

In this winter of heavy snows--with more on the way this week--nature's bull's-eye might be Oswego, N.Y., and the nearby Tug Hill Plateau.

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created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tornado warnings are too often ignored

With big storms ripping across the Midwest, Bob Drost is hoping people are paying attention to the severe weather and tornado warnings.

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created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | 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