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Monday, December 2, 2019
WEIRDNESS: RAINS OF FROGS AND FISH. CAUSE: TORNADOES
Tornadoes can do some weird things. A tornado can destroy one house while leaving the house next door seemingly untouched. They can grow miles wide or last for just a couple of seconds. But one of the weirdest things about tornadoes is that they can actually make it rain aquatic creatures. If a tornado passes over a body of water like a lake, river, or pond, the extreme suction can lift fish and frogs right out of the water. What goes up must come down, and sometimes there are people in the way to tell the story after the skies clear out.
Monday, November 18, 2019
2019 starts with extreme, high-impact weather
The start of 2019 has been marked by high impact weather in many parts of the world, including record heat, wildfires and rainfall in South America and Australasia, dangerous and extreme cold in North America, and heavy snowfall in the Alps and Himalayas.
Globally, temperatures were a little over 0.4°C warmer than the average January from 1981-2010, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. Australia continued to experience exceptionally hot conditions. Further regions with much above average temperature include the Middle East and eastern Siberia, Mongolia and northeastern China. Regions of below-average temperature were quite widespread over land and over the frozen Arctic Ocean.
Monday, November 11, 2019
The Effects of Climate Change
Global climate change has already had observable effects on the environment. Glaciers have shrunk, ice on rivers and lakes is breaking up earlier, plant and animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner.
Effects that scientists had predicted in the past would result from global climate change are now occurring: loss of sea ice, accelerated sea level rise and longer, more intense heat waves
Monday, November 4, 2019
Blowing Dust Over a Flooded Town
A surreal sight was visible in one Oklahoma town during a siege of heavy rain and severe weather in May, the nation's second wettest month on record.
On May 21, Photographer OKWeatherWatch captured images of Kingfisher, Oklahoma, flooded by two creeks. At the same time, gusts up to 50 mph turned the sky brown with dust from west Texas.
In Kingfisher, May 2019 was the wettest month (17.14 inches) in 122 years of records. But if you looked only at the sky, you would've thought it had been in a dry spell.
State's First February Tornado on Record is a 'Snowspout'
On Feb. 17, Antonio Chiquito documented a tornado live on Facebook while herding sheep on the Navajo Reservation near Tinian in McKinley County, northwest of Albuquerque.
This wasn't a tornado spawned from a rotating supercell thunderstorm, but a landspout variety that forms when a growing cumulus cloud develops over a boundary of converging surface winds.
And, yes, that's snow on the ground. The National Weather Service dubbed it a "snowspout".
This was the first documented February tornado in New Mexico, according to records kept since 1950. It was also only the second tornado on record in McKinley County.
https://weather.com/news/news/2019-06-24-strangest-weather-2019-june
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Extreme weather gets a boost from climate change
Scientists are detecting a stronger link between the planet's warming and its changing weather patterns.
Though it can be hard to pinpoint whether climate change intensified a particular weather event, the trajectory is clear — hotter heat waves, drier droughts, bigger storm surges and greater snowfall.
Sunday, October 13, 2019
Sever Weather Outnlook
Thunderstorms are expected across portions of the central and southern U.S. on Tuesday. Severe potential is uncertain, but could develop across parts of east Texas toward the Lower Mississippi Valley.
https://www.severeweatheroutlook.com/2019-10-15/
https://www.severeweatheroutlook.com/2019-10-15/
TIMELINE: Strong cold front moving in, severe weather possible in Oklahoma
A strong cold front is moving into Oklahoma Thursday, and there is also a risk of severe weather for parts of the state.
First Alert Meteorologist Jonathan Conder breaks down the latest timeline of when the cold front is moving into your area, and when and where we can expect severe storms.
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Lightning 'superbolts' form over oceans from November to February
Lightning superbolts -- which unleash a thousand times more low-frequency energy than regular lightning bolts -- occur in dramatically different patterns than regular lightning, according to a new, nine-year survey of these rare events.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190909113041.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190909113041.htm
Monday, September 9, 2019
Fires burning across Central Africa
While focus has slowly grown on the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, it has emerged an even greater number of fires are currently burning in central Africa.
Data from Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System, showed at least 6,902 fires in Angolaand 3,395 burning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
While focus has slowly grown on the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, it has emerged an even greater number of fires are currently burning in central Africa.
Data from Nasa’s Fire Information for Resource Management System, showed at least 6,902 fires in Angolaand 3,395 burning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The same data put Brazil’s fires at 2,127.
The huge surge in fires in the Amazon this year has caused global concern. The rainforest stores enormous amounts of carbon in the complex ecosystem, it is the most biodiverse land area on earth, and its conservation is essential if we are to limit the impacts of global heating.
In Africa however, the extent of the fires affecting forested areas is unclear. In agricultural areas purpose-lit fires have been a common part of farming techniques for thousands of years.
Link to article.
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