2019 ranks among the 3 warmest years in records dating to the mid-1800s. In 2019, greenhouse gases reached their highest levels on record. Both facts are from the 30th annual State of the Climate report, a review of world climate based on contributions from more than 520 scientists in over 60 countries. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/international-climate-report-2019-record-heat-greenhouse-gas…
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Locust Swarms Are Getting So Big That We Need Radar To Track Them
The desert locust upsurge is yet another of 2020’s horrors. From a report: In June, remote sensing analyst Raj Bhagat noticed a strange signal on India’s weather radar. It looked like a small band of rain near Delhi, moving southwest, but Bhagat was convinced it was a locust swarm. “People began to report it,” he says, referring to sightings on the…
Boeing 787s Must Be Turned Off and On Every 51 Days To Prevent ‘Misleading Data’ Being Shown To Pilots
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has ordered Boeing 787 operators to switch their aircraft off and on every 51 days to prevent what it called “several potentially catastrophic failure scenarios” — including the crashing of onboard network switches. The Register reports: The airworthiness directive, due to be enforced from later this month, orders airlines to power-cycle their B787s before the aircraft…
Antarctica melts under its hottest days on record
On February 6, weather stations recorded the hottest temperature on record for Antarctica, 64.9°F (18.3°C). The warm spell caused widespread melting on nearby glaciers Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/antarctica-melts-hottest-temperatures-on-record-feb2020…
Elnath is close to the galactic anticenter
Elnath, the 2nd-brightest star in Taurus, is the closest bright star to the galactic anticenter – the point in space directly opposite of our Milky Way’s center. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/elnath-taurus-the-bulls-second-brightest-star…
5-Inch-Long ‘Dragon’s Horn’ Grows from Man’s Back
The enormous growth began as a lesion that steadily expanded over several years. Source: https://www.livescience.com/dragon-horn-on-mans-back-removed.html
Moon in Taurus on January 6, 7 and 8
These next three nights – January 6, 7 and 8, 2020 – the bright waxing gibbous moon shines in front of the constellation Taurus the Bull. However, it will be difficult to envision the starlit figure of the Bull on these moonlit nights. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-in-taurus-on-january-6-7-and-8…