Here are the winners of the Royal Meteorological Society’s 2020 Weather Photo of the Year contest, sponsored by AccuWeather. Source: https://www.livescience.com/rms-weather-photos.html
Tag: storms
Year’s closest new moon October 16
October 16 brings us the closest new moon of 2020. Some will call it a supermoon. You won’t see this extra-close new moon because it’ll travel across the daytime sky with the sun. But you might see its gravitational effect on the tides along ocean shorelines in the days following new moon. Source: https://earthsky.org/tonight/years-closest-new-moon-october-16…
Solar storms could be more extreme if they ‘slipstream’ behind each other
Modeling of an extreme space weather event that narrowly missed Earth in 2012 shows it could have been even worse if paired with another event. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-solar-storms-extreme-slipstream.html…
Zombie storms are rising from the dead thanks to climate change
Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the Southeast — and some of those storms are rising from the dead. Source: https://www.livescience.com/zombie-storms-climate-change.html
The strange storms on Jupiter
At the south pole of Jupiter lurks a striking sight—even for a gas giant planet covered in colorful bands that sports a red spot larger than the earth. Down near the south pole of the planet, mostly hidden from the prying eyes of humans, is a collection of swirling storms arranged in an unusually geometric pattern. Source: https://phys.org/news/2020-09-strange-storms-jupiter.html…
Climate Disruption Is Now Locked In. The Next Moves Will Be Crucial.
America is now under siege by climate change in ways that scientists have warned about for years. But there is a second part to their admonition: Decades of growing crisis are already locked into the global ecosystem and cannot be reversed. From a report: This means the kinds of cascading disasters occurring today — drought in the West fueling historic wildfires…
What is a hurricane storm surge?
Of all the hazards that hurricanes bring, storm surge is the greatest threat to life and property along the coast. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/definition-what-is-a-hurricane-storm-surge…
Cool new Hubble portrait of Jupiter’s storms
A beautiful new image of Jupiter from the Hubble Space Telescope – captured in August 2020 – shows the planet’s icy moon Europa as well as several famous storms in Jupiter’s atmosphere. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/hubble-jupiter-europa-famous-jovian-storms…
Hubble Captures Crisp New Image of Jupiter and Europa
A unique and exciting detail of Hubble’s new snapshot appears at mid-northern latitudes as a bright, white, stretched-out storm moving at 560 kilometres per hour. This single plume erupted on 18 August 2020 and another has since appeared. From a report: While it’s common for storms to pop up in this region, often several at once, this particular disturbance appears to…
Hubble captures crisp new portrait of Jupiter’s storms
This latest image of Jupiter, taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on Aug. 25, 2020, was captured when the planet was 406 million miles from Earth. Hubble’s sharp view is giving researchers an updated weather report on the monster planet’s turbulent atmosphere, including a remarkable new storm brewing, and a cousin of the famous Great Red Spot region gearing up to…