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 Dan Rather put the first radar images of hurricanes… Read the rest “How Dan Rather taught us how to see hurricanes.”
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 fly through all the time:
… Read the rest “Radiation clouds may sicken jet travelers.”We have long
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 meaningful, and sometimes… Read the rest “Science Art: GFS Model Forecasts Moisture over the Atlantic, Aug 2016”
Sigmund Riefler was a physicist and precision clockmaker. He also created this, a precision barometer, or, rather, a barometer connected to a precision clock.
Nature looks high and low at the way clouds have changed since the 1980s – as global-warming models predicted:
… Read the rest “Clouds are gathering. In a weird way. At the poles.”An analysis of satellite data has found that, since the early 1980s,
Nature reports that our ban on CFCs might be working because the hole in the ozone layer is shrinking:
… Read the rest “Something worked! The ozone hole is getting better.”It’s the beginning of the end for the Antarctic ozone hole. A new analysis shows
Are we in for weather? Yes, always. Good or bad, there’s always some kind of weather. What kind? This diagram will show you.
I found it in the David Rumsey Historical… Read the rest “Science Art: Diagram of Meteorology, James Reynolds and John Emslie.”
Dr. Jeff Masters at Weather Underground has a lot of superlatives for Hurricane Patricia, the Category 5 storm that leapt up out of nowhere to devastate Puerto Vallarta:
… Read the rest “The meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.”Stunning, historic,
Making the invisible visible – the air over the South Pole, Australia, Tierra del Fuego, Cape Town and beyond.
From General Meteorology (Published Formerly Under… Read the rest “Science Art: Fig 114 – July normal sea-level pressure, Southern Hemisphere.”
You might have heard, like many Discovery News readers, of the weird moving rocks of Death Valley – the ones with the long, curving trails behind them. No one’s ever seen how … Read the rest “Moving rocks caught on camera.”
Look! Look at all the birds!
I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about everywhere researchers partner with NASA to do … Read the rest “Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]”
Scientific American paints a peculiar picture of the Big Apple’s future, with the hustle and bustle taking place behind a series of levees, walls and other barriers to keep the ocean… Read the rest “The walled city of New York… after the oceans rise.”
Laboratory Equipment wards off bad weather with a new finding… that lasers can be used to divert lightning strikes:
… Read the rest “Anti-lightning lasers zap storms.”Currently, high-intensity lasers, produced with modern technology
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an effect on the… Read the rest “Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).”
Pennies from Heaven? P’shaw! Nature looks over the vastly overvalued weather report on Saturn and Jupiter:
… Read the rest “Sooty, with a chance of diamonds.”…Mona Delitsky of California Specialty Engineering in Flintridge,
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