As you check your local weather forecast today, give a nod to Albert J. Myer, born on this date in 1828, who helped to establish the US National Weather Service. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/albert-j-myers-birthday-national-weather-service…
Tag: storms
Texas Is Drowning Under One of the Wettest Storms in US History
Tropical storm Imelda is bringing historic and devastating flooding to southeastern Texas, just two years after Hurricane Harvey flooded the same part of the state. Source: https://www.livescience.com/imelda-catastrophic-flooding-texas.html
Extreme Weather Events This Decade Have Cost America $750B
An anonymous reader quotes NBC News: An analysis of weather disasters that did more than $1 billion in damage from the National Centers for Environmental Information finds that such high-cost events are up markedly since the 1980s. (The dollar figures for the events were adjusted for inflation.) There have been 250 such events since 1980 and almost half them, 111, have…
A Long Storm System on Saturn
It was one of the largest and longest lived storms ever recorded in our Solar System. Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html…
ALMA images show what’s happening beneath Jupiter’s storms
New radio images made with the ALMA telescope provide a look at what’s going on beneath Jupiter’s colorful storms and swirling clouds. Source: https://earthsky.org/space/image-shows-whats-inside-jupiters-storms…
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…
Giant Ammonia Storms Are Screwing with Jupiter’s Beautiful Brown and White Belts of Color
Powerful storms have erupted on Jupiter, and they’re screwing up the planet’s beautiful belts of white and color. Source: https://www.livescience.com/ammonia-storms-messing-colors-jupiter.html
Storms on Jupiter are disturbing the planet’s colorful belts
Storm clouds rooted deep in Jupiter’s atmosphere are affecting the planet’s white zones and colorful belts, creating disturbances in their flow and even changing their color. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-storms-jupiter-disturbing-planet-belts.html…
The Planet Needs a New Internet
An anonymous reader shares a report: When climate change comes for our coffee and our wine, we’ll moan about it on Twitter, read about it on our favorite websites, and watch diverting videos on YouTube to fill the icy hole in our hearts. We’ll do all this until the websites go dark and the networks go down because eventually, climate change…
Three Years Later, France’s Solar Road is a Flop
DigressivePoser and schwit1 both submitted the same story. That 1-km ( .62-mile) “solar road” paved with photovoltaic panels in France is “too noisy, falling apart, and doesn’t even collect enough solar energy,” reports Popular Mechanics: Le Monde describes the road as “pale with its ragged joints,” with “solar panels that peel off the road and the many splinters [from] that enamel…