Lighting cleans the air even more than we thought.
Science News chases the storm chasers who found some surprising air-purifying oxidant chemicals in the wake of major lightning strikes: Researchers knew lightning produces nitric […]
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Science Art: Cloud Vortices off Isla Socorro (Detail) by NASA Goddard Photo and Video
Click to embiggen On May 25, 2010 at 17 :35 UTC, this was the weather off the North Pacific island called Isla Socorro: Partly cloudy […]
On behalf of America’s southeastern quadrant: Oh, GREAT! Early hurricane predictions are in. And big.
It’s going to be a rough season again, Science News lets us know. Tropical weather forecasters are predicting 18 named storms and at least four […]
The southern jet stream is finally going back to normal as the ozone hole closes.
New Scientist has some uplifting news about the ozone hole. It’s fixing itself at last, and as it does so, the planet’s wind patterns are […]
Science Art: Sunset in the Eye of a Hurricane
Click to embiggen Well, I made it through Dorian just fine this week. Some islands less than 100 miles to the east didn’t. This is […]
Science Art: Perspective view of the sky…, from “Refraction by Ice Crystals” in Instructions to Marine Meteorological Observers, 1938.
Click to embiggen These are the optical effects you have to be aware of if you’re going to describe the sky when ice-filled cirrus clouds […]
Science Art: Geostrophic and Surface-Winds at Southport, 1931
Click to embiggen Eight years of observations, from 1908 to 1915, went into this chart. We’re looking at deviations from geographic points, and the percentage […]
Science Art: The midnight sun, from Atlas zu Alex. V. Humboldt’s Kosmos, 1851.
Click to embiggen Polar bears salute the midnight sun as Arctic explorers sail to the horizon. This image is part of a page of “Cosmic […]
How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.
This isn’t new research, but a look back at some technological history most of us might not know. The Atlantic reminds us how a young […]
Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.
New Scientist puts the seat backs in the full upright position with the news that there are weird “radioactive zones” in the sky our planes […]
Science Art: GFS Model Forecasts Moisture over the Atlantic, Aug 2016
Click to embiggen You’d think after the week I’ve had, I’d be sick of looking at meteorological imagery. But no. This stuff is beautiful, and […]
Science Art: Aneroiddose für die Luftdruckkompensation des Pendels, by Sigmund Riefler
Click to embiggen Sigmund Riefler was a physicist and precision clockmaker. He also created this, a precision barometer, or, rather, a barometer connected to a […]
Clouds are gathering. In a weird way. At the poles.
Nature looks high and low at the way clouds have changed since the 1980s – as global-warming models predicted: An analysis of satellite data has […]
Something worked! The ozone hole is getting better.
Nature reports that our ban on CFCs might be working because the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking: It’s the beginning of the end […]
Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.
Click to embiggen vastly Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will […]