Multiple climate factors indicate above-normal activity is most likely, according to NOAA’s 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Outlook. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/atlantic-hurricane-season-2020-noaa-forecast…
Tag: Category 5 Hurricane
Global warming is making hurricanes stronger
As Earth gets warmer, hurricanes are expected to get stronger. A study of 40 years of satellite data suggests it’s already happening. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/new-research-shows-hurricanes-are-getting-stronger…
How does the solar wind affect Earth?
Why should we care about the new findings – released this week – from NASA’s Parker Solar Probe? This new NASA video explains the solar wind – a stream of charged particles from the sun – affects earthly astronauts and technologies. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/solar-wind-affects-earth-video…
Effects of the solar wind
The wind speed of a devastating Category 5 hurricane can top over 150 miles per hour (241km/hour.) Now imagine another kind of wind with an average speed of 0.87 million miles per hour (1.4 million km/hour.) Welcome to the wind that begins in our sun and doesn’t stop until after it reaches the edge of the heliosphere: the solar wind. Source:…
Hurricane Dorian: Why it’s so destructive
Dorian, the 2nd most powerful Atlantic hurricane on record, has devastated the Bahamas, with the death toll expected to rapidly rise as rescue work gets under way. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/hurricane-dorian-why-its-so-destructive…