The sun's differential rotation pattern has puzzled scientists for decades: While the poles rotate with a period of approximately 34 days, mid-latitudes rotate faster and the equatorial region requires only approximately ...
Astronomy
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Climate change is shifting the energy in the atmosphere that fuels summertime weather, which may lead to stronger thunderstorms and more stagnant conditions for midlatitude regions of the Northern Hemisphere, including North ...
Environment
Feb 18, 2019
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A subtropical storm is what's known to forecasters as a "hybrid" storm, a meteorological mashup of a tropical and "extratropical" storm.
Earth Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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Hurricanes are powerful weather events born in the open sea. Fueled by moisture from the warm ocean, hurricanes can intensify in strength, move vast distances across the water, and ultimately unleash their destruction upon ...
General Physics
Jun 14, 2021
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From 78 degrees on Tuesday to snow on Wednesday? Swings like this aren't unusual in the central United States, where weather can quickly shift from one extreme to another. That's especially true in the springtime, when conditions ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 12, 2019
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Hurricane-strength storms in the Mediterranean could hit the region with increasing power by the end of the 21st century, growing to robust Category 1 strength, according to a new study in the AGU journal Geophysical Research ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 13, 2019
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From Maine to West Virginia, the Northeast has seen a larger increase in extreme precipitation than anywhere else in the U.S. Prior research found that these heavy rain and snow events, defined as a day with about two inches ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 31, 2018
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The Tropics are defined as the area of Earth where the Sun is directly overhead at least once a year—the zone between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
Environment
Jun 28, 2017
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"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. In the decade since NASA's ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 26, 2009
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NASA's Aqua satellite used infrared light to analyze the strength of storms in the North Atlantic Ocean's newly formed Subtropical Depression 4. Infrared data provides temperature information to find the strongest thunderstorms ...
Environment
Jun 23, 2020
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