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 […]
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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 […]
The meanest, most-quickly-intensifying hurricane in the Western Hemisphere.
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 […]
Science Art: Fig 114 – July normal sea-level pressure, Southern Hemisphere.
Click to embiggen Making the invisible visible – the air over the South Pole, Australia, Tierra del Fuego, Cape Town and beyond. From General Meteorology […]
Moving rocks caught on camera.
You might have heard, like many Discovery News readers, of the weird moving rocks of Death Valley – the ones with the long, curving trails […]
Science Art: NASA Satellites [Earth Science Research Spacecraft]
Click to embiggen Look! Look at all the birds! I honestly can’t find where this image came from originally, but it pops up just about […]
The walled city of New York… after the oceans rise.
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 […]
Anti-lightning lasers zap storms.
Laboratory Equipment wards off bad weather with a new finding… that lasers can be used to divert lightning strikes: Currently, high-intensity lasers, produced with modern […]
Our air pollution *weakens* hurricanes (but makes them wetter).
Science Daily says “aerosols produced by human activities” – that is, soot and exhaust fumes and all that great air pollution – definitely has an […]