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Officials from the American space agency have just revealed a new image of the Martian surface. Unlike other that only showed sand dunes and canyons, this one shows an actual tornado making its way across the rugged landscape. As seen from above, the weather event looks like a horizontal “S,” snaking it... |
8 March 2012
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According to the conclusions of a new report released by CoreLogic, it would appear that floods and other extreme weather events triggered by global warming cost the United States more than $10 billion for 2011. The report is freely available after completing a short registration process, here. The document, entitled... |
19 December 2011
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On April 27, 2011, a series of tornadoes hit the state of Alabama, and other states in the southeastern parts of the United States, with tremendous force, producing numerous casualties and enormous damages. Now, a team of experts is embarking on an expedition to understand why that happened. University of Alabama in ... |
12 July 2011
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An international group of investigators has just finished the most dangerous stages of the Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2). The general goal of the undertaking was to determine why certain storms turn into tornadoes, while others don't. No groundbreaking conclusions were... |
22 July 2010
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An international team of researchers is currently getting ready to hit the road again this spring, as part of the VORTEX2 project. The group features more than 100 scientists, and as many as 40 support vehicles, and its main goal is analyzing tornadoes, how they form, and methods of predicting when and where they wil... |
28 April 2010
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For a long time, meteorologists have suspected that a connection must exist between the way autumns and winters unfold and the atmospheric conditions that occur the next spring. Now, a new investigation seems to point out the fact that drier autumns and winters have the potential to calm the tornado-forming ability o... |
24 June 2009
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Weather experts say that, this year, the number of tornadoes recorded in the United States has been significantly lower that that of such weather events last year. Additionally, those that did form have been of much lower intensity, and caused less damage throughout the Tornado Alley and elsewhere. By the end of June... |
19 June 2009
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Scheduled to begin next week, the most ambitious weather experiment in the world will take place between May 10th and June 13th in the central parts of the United States, all over the Great Plains, on an area of about 900 square miles. It will be conducted by an inter-disciplinary team of researchers from the Nationa... |
5 May 2009
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For decades, astronomers have held that the solar system's innermost planet, Mercury, was nothing more than a desolate world, completely dead and inhospitable to human life. All that began to change since last October, when the MESSENGER spacecraft started beaming back images of the planet, which it took during ... |
4 May 2009
02:58 GMT |
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Speaking on April 23rd at the general assembly of the European Geosciences Union in Vienna, Austria, University of California in Berkeley (UCB) Space Sciences Laboratory Space Physicist Andreas Keiling presented a few of the readings NASA's THEMIS satellite suite recorded when analyzing the formation of the ligh... |
24 April 2009
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Ever since Alaska's Mount Redoubt volcano showed the first signs that it might erupt again, geologists have installed cameras in areas around it, in hopes of catching the phenomena associated with its eruption in more detail. One of the cameras has caught a spectacular image, of a lighting zipping through the gi... |
9 April 2009
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The most ambitious weather experiment in the world will take place between May 10th and June 13th in the central parts of the United States, and will be conducted by an inter-disciplinary team of researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), as well as by ten universities and 3 other gr... |
7 April 2009
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The National Weather Service has decided to employ a more drastic approach to warning people about severe storms, hurricanes, or tornadoes that may hit the United States this year, by flashing ads on all networks and air frequencies and by using harsher words and overall language when describing the situation. Repres... |
11 March 2009
11:33 GMT |
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After the last disastrous hurricane seasons, the federal government has begun taking steps towards determining the seriousness of the situation the United States will be facing over the next few decades. Global warming and climate change are believed to be the main "perpetrator" behind the intensified tornadoes and t... |
15 October 2008
07:15 GMT |
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Even though it might sound scary at first, Ignition Entertainment and game developers Success have teamed up to bring Tornado to North America. However, there is no reason to worry, since the tornadoes they bring are 100% virtual and they will never leave the small screens of the Nintendo DS handheld.Tornado seems to... |
16 June 2008
04:23 GMT |
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