News tagged with winter snow

Impact of warming climate doesn't always translate to streamflow

An analysis of 35 headwater basins in the United States and Canada found that the impact of warmer air temperatures on streamflow rates was less than expected in many locations, suggesting that some ecosystems may be resilient ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cold winters caused by warmer summers, research suggests

Scientists have offered up a convincing explanation for the harsh winters recently experienced in the Northern Hemisphere; increasing temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic regions creating more snowfall in the autumn ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (13) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Protecting UA telescopes during the winter cold

(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as property owners are working to protect pipes from bursting during the winter cold, a UA team is working to protect telescope observatories.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Austrian glaciers shrink dramatically

Austria's glaciers shrank dramatically this summer, the most since a record hot period in 2003, principally because of low amounts of snow the preceding winter, scientists said.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 02, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 14

Experts warn epic weather ravaging US could worsen

Epic floods, massive wildfires, drought and the deadliest tornado season in 60 years are ravaging the United States, with scientists warning that climate change will bring even more extreme weather.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (13) | comments 64

Northern Eurasian snowpack could be a predictor of winter weather in US

Every winter, weather forecasters talk about the snow cover in the northern U.S. and into Canada as a factor in how deep the deep-freeze will be in the states. A new study by researchers at the University of Georgia indicates ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Could the Internet spell the end of snow days?

(AP) -- Could the Internet mean the end of snow days? Some schools think so, and they are experimenting with ways for students to do lessons online during bad weather, potentially allowing classes to go on ...

Technology / Internet

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Early meteorological winter in the U.S. Midwest captured by NASA

NASA's Terra satellite captures daily visible and infrared images around the Earth and took a daytime image of a blanket of snow in the Upper Midwest this week. Even though astronomical winter is less than ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Better snowfall forecasting

University of Utah scientists developed an easier way for meteorologists to predict snowfall amounts and density - fluffy powder or wet cement. The method has been adopted by the National Weather Service for ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 22, 2010 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdout

(AP) -- Forget red and blue -- color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 13, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 7

Swiss now pray that glacier will stop shrinking

(AP) -- Villagers from deeply Roman Catholic south Switzerland have for centuries offered a sacred vow to God to protect them from the advancing ice mass of the Great Aletsch glacier.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (9) | comments 19

Any way you slice it, warming climate is affecting Cascades snowpack

There has been sharp disagreement in recent years about how much, or even whether, winter snowpack has declined in the Cascade Mountains of Washington and Oregon during the last half-century.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (25) | comments 7