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Blast of tornados kills seven in US Little Rock, Arkansas (AFP) May 2, 2008 
At least 19 tornados ripped across four US states Friday leaving seven dead in Arkansas including a teenage girl and flattening homes and businesses, local officials and media said. Van Buren County sheriff Scott Bradley told CNN that three members of the same family were killed in his area. "The house they were in sustained a direct hit, was totally destroyed." Some 28 homes had been ... read more |
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Global Temperature Report - March 2008
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 24, 2008The La Nina cooling of the tropical atmosphere continued in March, with temperatures in the tropics falling to their coldest seasonally-adjusted temperature (-0.49 C below the 20-year average for March) since the La Nina of March 1989, according to Dr. John Christy, a professor of atmospheric science and director of the Earth System Science Center (ESSC) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville ... more Tiny Tremors Can Track Extreme Storms In A Warming Planet 
Santa Fe NM (SPX) Apr 21, 2008Data from faint earth tremors caused by wind-driven ocean waves-often dismissed as "background noise" at seismographic stations around the world-suggest extreme ocean storms have become more frequent over the past three decades, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Seismological Society of America. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other prominent ... more Changing jet streams may alter storm paths 
Stanford, Calif., April 17, 2008 U.S. scientists say changes in the Earth's jet streams, possibly caused by global warming, might affect storm paths and intensity, including hurricanes. Jet streams -- high-altitude bands of fast-moving winds -- are shifting, said Carnegie Institution researchers Ken Caldeira and Cristina Archer. They found that from 1979 to 2001, the jet streams in both hemispheres rose in altitude and ... more India's weather office forecasts good summer monsoon 
New Delhi (AFP) April 16, 2008India's weather office on Wednesday forecast that the June-to-September annual monsoon rains that are key for crops and the rural economy would be better than average. Indian economic policymakers are depending on ample monsoon rains to help farmers produce more food grains to tame rising prices after inflation hit a three-year high at 7.41 percent last week as global food costs soar. ... more Laser Triggers Electrical Activity In Thunderstorm For The First Time 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 15, 2008A team of European scientists has deliberately triggered electrical activity in thunderclouds for the first time, according to a new paper in the latest issue of Optics Express, the Optical Society's (OSA) open-access journal. They did this by aiming high-power pulses of laser light into a thunderstorm. At the top of South Baldy Peak in New Mexico during two passing thunderstorms, the ... more |
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University Park PA (SPX) Mar 31, 2008The mechanism behind different types of lightning may now be understood, thanks to a combination of direct observation and computer modeling reported by a team of researchers from New Mexico Tech and Penn State. "Our explanation provides a unifying view of how lightning escapes from a thundercloud," the researchers report in the April edition of Nature Geoscience. Most people see lightning ... more As Japan toasts spring, experts feel heat 
Tokyo (AFP) March 26, 2008Japan relies on its meteorologists to predict earthquakes, tsunamis and floods, but perhaps their most important and eagerly awaited task involves staring at a tree. The weather bureau is in charge of declaring the start of cherry blossom season, an annual rite of spring that lasts only a few days and sends the entire country out picnicking and drinking beneath the flowering pale pink trees. ... more More investments needed in weather forecasting : UN agency 
Geneva (AFP) March 25, 2008Africa, Central Asia and small island states face shortfalls in weather forecasting infrastructure, the UN's meteorological agency said Tuesday, urging more investments in observation technologies. "We need to make more effort to better observe our planets... Every social (and) economic sector is affected by the weather, by water, by climate issues. To make the right decision it is absolutely ... more Gravity Waves Make Tornados 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 20, 2008Did you know that there's a new breakfast food that helps meteorologists predict severe storms? Down South they call it "GrITs." GrITs stands for Gravity wave Interactions with Tornadoes. "It's a computer model I developed to study how atmospheric gravity waves interact with severe storms," says research meteorologist Tim Coleman of the National Space Science and Technology Center in Huntsville ... more Deadly tornado blasts Atlanta, leaving two dead 
Washington (AFP) March 15, 2008The governor of the US state of Georgia declared a state of emergency Saturday after a violent tornado blasting winds up to 130 miles per hour tore through downtown Atlanta, killing two people. The storm on Friday night ripped roofs off downtown apartment buildings, blew windows out of high-rises and sent people fleeing from their seats in the middle of a university basketball tournament as ... more |
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Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 25, 2008An unexpected radar image of airborne debris from the Feb. 6 tornado that killed four people in Lawrence County, Ala., might help scientists develop better tools for warning the public when and where strong tornadoes are on the ground. Scientists in the Earth System Science Center at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAHuntsville) are studying radar data from the early morning tornado ... more Kuwait dust storm disrupts port, air traffic 
Kuwait City (AFP) Feb 19, 2008A blinding dust storm hit Kuwait on Tuesday, forcing the closure of the Gulf emirate's three ports and disrupting air traffic, officials said. Winds blowing at a speed of up to 40 kilometres (25 miles) an hour caused the storm, the second in four days in this desert oil-rich emirate, reducing visibility to below 300 metres (yards) at Kuwait airport. Issam al-Zamel, head of operations at ... more 180,000 stranded in southern China as cold weather returns: govt 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 18, 2008Icy temperatures have swept through south China, stranding 180,000 people and leading to widespread power cuts just as the area was recovering from the worst weather in 50 years, the government said Monday. The latest cold snap has taken a severe toll in usually temperate Yunnan province, which has been struck by heavy snowfalls since Thursday, a government official from the provincial disaster ... more Five killed, islands isolated in Indonesian storm: official 
Kupang, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 16, 2008Five people were killed after being washed out to sea and hundreds of families were cut off after heavy storms lashed Indonesia, officials said Saturday. More than 500 homes were also destroyed as the country was battered by a fourth day of stormy weather, Frans Salen, an official in East Nusa Tenggara province, where the deaths occurred, told reporters. He added that all districts in ... more China weather forecasters 10 years behind foreigners: report 
Beijing (AFP) Feb 15, 2008China's meteorologists have admitted being 10 years behind world standards, a report said Friday, after a surprise spell of freezing winter weather paralysed the country and killed more than 100 people. "There is a 10-year gap between the Chinese (weather forecasting) model and advanced foreign models," National Meteorological Centre deputy director Duan Yihong said, according to the China ... more
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