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NASA satellite movie shows Great Plains tornado outbreak from space

Satellite data gives forecasters a leg up on severe weather. NASA has just released an animation of visible and infrared satellite data showing the development and movement of the Great Plains tornado outbreak, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 22 | with audio podcast

Dashing through the snow, in a one-truck radar dish

SCHUSS. The term for a straight, downhill ski run. In the land of the Greatest Snow on Earth--Utah--SCHUSS is also the moniker for storm-chasing, Old Man Winter-style.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

April was record-setting month for tornadoes

(AP) -- The U.S. set a record for the most tornadoes within a month with April's deadly storms.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Survivors of Joplin tornado develop rare infection

(AP) -- In the aftermath of the Joplin tornado, some people injured in the storm developed a rare and sometimes fatal fungal infection so aggressive that it turned their tissue black and caused mold to grow ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 11, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Joplin toll rises to 151; some suffer from fungus

(AP) -- The death toll from the tornado that destroyed much of Joplin has risen to 151, and three of the latest victims suffered from a rare fungal infection that can occur when dirt becomes embedded under the skin, authorities ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Science can't design away tornadoes' deadly threat

(AP) -- Storm science has greatly improved tornado warnings in recent years. But if that's led anyone into a sense of security, that feeling has taken a beating in recent weeks.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 6

Repeat deadly storms 'unusual but not unknown'

(AP) -- Weather experts said it's unusual for deadly tornadoes to develop a few weeks apart in the U.S. But what made the two storm systems that barreled through a Missouri city and the South within the last ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 24, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NWS: NE Mississippi tornado was highest-rated EF-5

(AP) -- At least one of the massive tornadoes that killed hundreds across the South this week was a devastating EF-5 storm, according to an analysis Friday by the National Weather Service, which suspects ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 30, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 15

Killer twisters likely among largest, strongest

Some of the killer tornadoes that ripped across the South may have been among the largest and most powerful ever recorded, experts suggested, leaving a death toll that is approaching that of a tragic "super ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 21

4 and 20 blackbirds, and 4,000, dead in the sky

(AP) -- Celebratory fireworks likely sent thousands of discombobulated blackbirds into such a tizzy that they crashed into homes, cars and each other before plummeting to their deaths in central Arkansas, ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (13) | comments 18


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