News tagged with storm events

Tempest-from-hell seen on Saturn

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft now have the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

IBEX and TWINS join forces to observe a solar storm

(Phys.org) -- On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interacted ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Large sponges may be reattached to coral reefs

April 27, 2009 - A new study appearing in Restoration Ecology describes a novel technique for reattaching large sponges that have been dislodged from coral reefs. The findings could be generally applied to the restoration of oth ...

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | 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.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

NOAA near-term weather forecasts get powerful boost from new computer model

Starting today, NOAA is using a sophisticated new weather forecast computer model to improve predictions of quickly developing severe weather events including thunderstorms, winter storms and aviation hazards ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 02, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Regional models expect drier, stormier western United States

As American southwestern states struggle against ongoing drought, and the Northwest braces for a projected shift from a snow- to a rain-dominated hydrological system, climate researchers strive to provide precipitation projections ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 31, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

NASA's Aqua satellite sees 3 in 1: Tropical storms Nate, Lee, fires

Tropical Storm Nate is perched to make landfall in Mexico this weekend, and warnings are in effect. Nate is one of three major weather events around the Gulf of Mexico today, and NASA's Aqua satellite captured ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | 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.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Space weather disrupts communications, threatens other technologies on Earth

(PhysOrg.com) -- A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather storm in at least four years and has already disrupted some ground communications on Earth, said University of Colorado Boulder ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5

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. ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Bleak future for Bay area tidal marshes?

A new study, led by PRBO Conservation Science (PRBO), projects a bleak future for San Francisco Bay's tidal marshes under high-end sea-level rise scenarios that are increasingly likely. PRBO and colleagues found that in the ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Climate: which nations, cities most at risk?

A third of humanity, mostly in Africa and South Asia, face the biggest risks from climate change but rich nations in northern Europe will be least exposed, according to a report released Wednesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 19