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WeatherBug for iPhone, from Earth Networks, allows you to be prepared for extreme weather anytime, and in any place, as long as you have an Internet connection. The utility just got a major overhaul in version 2.0. WeatherBug provides real-time, customized weather information with faster weather alerts and forecasts... |
10 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The Met Office, Britain's national weather forecaster is behind a fashionable, eco-friendly initiative, aiming to tackle climate change linked to extreme weather. The new series of T-shirts and hoodies are the result of its collaboration with Rapanui a small-scale enterprise. Rapanui wanted to to make sure that ... |
19 December 2011
08:09 GMT |
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Extreme weather in Scotland is toying with the fate of renewables, raising a few extra questions regarding their real reliability and safety standards. The alarmed public witnessed a dangerous fire, as a result of the explosion of 300ft wind turbine, generated by powerful winds. Authorities indicate 70,000 househol... |
9 December 2011
05:30 GMT |
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People who enjoy eating walnuts on a daily basis should be aware that their diet is threatened by climate change. Walnut trees (Juglans) are a highly demanding species of trees that require specific conditions. Rapidly expanding deforestation correlated with extreme drought could make this tree population extremely... |
1 December 2011
07:33 GMT |
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Developer and publisher Square Enix has revealed some more information about Final Fantasy XIII-2, the Japanese role playing game that is set to arrive in early December on the home market, including information on fan favorite chocobos and on how the weather system will influence the game experience.
Famitsu is rep... |
1 December 2011
02:48 GMT |
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When searching for weather on your Android or iOS device, you will be able to enjoy a new feature that Google has just added into the mix, namely support for a number of 33 new languages. The company has put in place interactive weather information for mobile searches earlier this year, and now added support for mo... |
25 November 2011
14:01 GMT |
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A limited number (for now) of iPhone 4S users seem to be having trouble connecting to their weather service through Siri. The problem, for some, emerges when querying the local forecast.“Siri does not seem to be woriking [sic] with any weather related service. It keeps saying 'Let me check for weather in T... |
21 November 2011
11:31 GMT |
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Today, a new flavor of the Nokia Maps with Weather application has emerged from the Nokia Beta Labs and is now available for some of the latest Symbian devices out there.
The new Nokia Maps 3.08 with Weather was pushed out of the beta status with a new installer in tow, and is available for all handsets running un... |
16 November 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Staying in touch with the weather forecast is very important if you plan on going on a vacation or even spend a day outdoors. Although you can find weather information on many websites, there are some tools which deliver the forecast straight to your desktop, and one of them is Meteorologist.Meteorologist is a ... |
22 September 2011
01:49 GMT |
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Google Maps now shows weather information on top of the regular maps. It's one of those things that seems obvious in retrospect, yet it's taken Google this long to enable it. There is current info for most major cities around the world and there's also cloud layer data. You can get more detailed inform... |
19 August 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Weather officials at the NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Florida, have just released a projection for how the weather will be like tomorrow, July 8, when the space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to launch on its final voyage ever. According to the latest data, there is a 70 percent chance that rain clouds, thunder... |
7 July 2011
03:30 GMT |
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Retrieving details about the weather may not seem like an important activity, yet we all check the conditions almost on a daily basis. YoWindow assumes the role of the weather man and retrieves meteorological information, relaying it in a very nifty and attractive form: animated landscape which can also be set as the... |
10 June 2011
04:01 GMT |
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Two research teams have simultaneously and independently arrived at the conclusion that airborne microorganisms can influence Earth's weather, and (to some extent) even its climate.
In presentations made on Monday, May 24, at the American Society for Microbiology meeting in New Orleans, representatives from th... |
25 May 2011
02:54 GMT |
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Climate scientists warn that the new parameters of the La Nina atmospheric pattern could have significant repercussions on the world's crops, including corn, coffee, wheat and rice. Crops in the American Midwest could decline significantly this summer, due to the phenomenon, and the state of Illinois could be pl... |
30 January 2011
06:37 GMT |
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Congress has recently been asked to increase fundings for the planned Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) mission to Earth's orbit. NASA and the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) want to build the new civilian weather satellite for studying global warming and related issues.At this point,... |
10 December 2010
03:47 GMT |
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A new cross-sectional study revealed that every 5°C (41°F) temperature rise, increases the rate of kids' hospital admissions for serious injury by 10%.Each time the temperature rises by 5°C, this boosts up hospital admissions rates for serious injuries among children, concluded this new research &nda... |
25 November 2010
10:22 GMT |
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The weather report represents a constant in our lives while news about storms and earthquakes frequently make the headlines. Still we don't always fully realize the magnitude of these phenomena. MVWorldviewer is able to put things into perspective by displaying a real time representation of the Earth.Although al... |
13 October 2010
12:51 GMT |
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Since the earliest days of agriculture, people have been trying to develop ways of figuring out when it was going to rain, and when the first snow would fall. Weather prediction is now a tricky business, but researchers want to make it more reliable. At this point, predictions can only be made for a few days in advan... |
10 September 2010
02:44 GMT |
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Officials at NOAA announced a few days ago that they managed to award a new contract for the construction of the main facility of the Pacific Regional Center (PRC).The complex will be located on Ford Island, in Honolulu, and its main job will be to coordinate the efforts of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adm... |
6 September 2010
02:24 GMT |
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Because of the impact of extreme temperatures on agriculture and health in Spain, scientists at the University of Salamanca – USAL, have focused on the main causes of this phenomenon, hot days and cold nights between 1950 and 2006.The new research, which was published by Climatic Change, actually analyzed the p... |
31 August 2010
10:19 GMT |
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Google Earth is already a great way to travel around the world from the comfort of your armchair and now it’s got a new feature that makes it even more immersive, real-time weather. If it’s raining or snowing in the location you’re currently visiting, the weather is depicted in Google Earth as well.... |
30 July 2010
04:08 GMT |
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Hundreds of websites, mobile phone applications, computer widgets and other electronic means can today be used to gain non-stop access to weather information. Some software even allow for real-time updates. Hurricanes, cyclones, tropical storms, dangerous cloud formations, soil moisture and salinity, as well as a ran... |
14 April 2010
05:00 GMT |
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As part of its ongoing effort to improve weather predictions across the United States, the American space agency has yesterday evening launched its latest in a series of high-tech weather satellites. The GOES-P spacecraft took off from Space Launch Complex 37 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), in Florid... |
5 March 2010
10:39 GMT |
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A group of scientists recently drew attention to the fact that a large iceberg currently roaming the Southern Ocean threatens to adversely affect the currents and weather patterns of the world. The enormous piece of ice broke off from the Mertz Glacier Tongue, which is a 60-kilometer-long slip of floating ice that pr... |
26 February 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Experts waited for the entire duration of the launch window yesterday, before finally calling it a day. NASA's new observatory, the SDO, was supposed to take off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) at around 10:30 am EST (1530 GMT), but high-speed winds in excess of 30 knots prevented this from hap... |
11 February 2010
02:34 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that building large dams on rivers may influence the local climate, to the extent that more weather extremes would occur over that specific region in the coming years. The finding is very worrisome for another reason too – many of these large dams are very old, and... |
4 December 2009
03:27 GMT |
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Scientists in charge of operating the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-14), formerly known as GOES-O, say that all the instruments on the spacecraft are working well, and that it is currently being moved to an on-orbit storage location. The satellite is now awaiting deployment, after mission ma... |
1 December 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Weather, in the strictest sense of the term, does not exist on Mars. The planet is surrounded by nothing more than an extremely thin atmosphere, which is about one percent as thick as our own. In spite of that, freezing temperatures, clouds, and dust storms like nothing seen on Earth exist there, and all these events... |
5 November 2009
17:41 GMT |
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Mission managers at the American space agency have just announced that they scrubbed the ARES I-X launch attempt that was scheduled for earlier today, on account of cloudy weather and powerful winds around the rocket. There were numerous attempts as the team tried to set the countdown clock rolling again, but there w... |
27 October 2009
11:39 GMT |
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If you are interested in your own environment and you are in search of a new toy that makes the classic globe seem a Stone-Age tool, EarthBrowser might be the application you were looking for. All the mapping services available over the Internet are great, but this application is using the Adobe Air technology to pus... |
17 July 2009
14:11 GMT |
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According to weather predictions released by the American space agency's weather office, the space shuttle Endeavor has a 40-percent chance of launching tomorrow, July 11th. The problem is mostly owed to the fact that clouds and incoming storms over the Kennedy Space Center (KSC), in Cape Canaveral, Florida, are... |
10 July 2009
16:01 GMT |
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Airplanes could benefit from a new weather control system in the near future, currently under development by the American space agency NASA, and a partnership between the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, Colorado and the University of Wisconsin. The new warning method will employ satellite... |
8 July 2009
03:49 GMT |
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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
07:01 GMT |
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Yesterday, the Chinese capital city of Beijing saw one of the weirdest phenomenons its inhabitants ever experienced, when, near noon, the skies turned black and the day turned into night, as a “freak storm” rained down upon the metropolis. ABC China correspondent Stephen McDonell and cameraman Rob Hill we... |
17 June 2009
04:06 GMT |
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The seven-astronaut crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis have spent another day in space, after both their landing windows at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, have failed due to bad weather, heavy rain, clouds and strong winds. The streak has been going on for a few days, and Mission Control has no way of know... |
23 May 2009
04:16 GMT |
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The seven-astronaut crew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis was told by Mission Control that it would have to spend a little more time in space, on account of the fact that the weather around the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, didn't look great. STS-125 Entry Flight Director Norm Knight announced that there wa... |
22 May 2009
02:26 GMT |
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According to scientific predictions, the rising incidence of global warming-related phenomena, such as intense and powerful storms, floods and droughts, will force millions of people out of their homes, located in areas more prone to feeling these effects of climate change. As the atmosphere becomes clogged with carb... |
2 April 2009
03:04 GMT |
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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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Most of us have heard others say that the weather is killing them, something scientists may have been inclined to laugh about. Now, they are dead serious. An impressive study, conducted on more than 7,000 individuals, has proven that there is, indeed, a direct connection between air pollution, bad weather, high tempe... |
10 March 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Regardless of the current season or your location on the globe, the weather affects you, one way or another. If you don't want weather conditions to take you by surprise, make sure you're always up-to-date with the local forecast. It may not always be completely accurate, but it does give you a general idea... |
18 December 2008
12:11 GMT |
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Nature appears to be slowed down by the coming of winter, which might make you think that scientists could also become a little lazy during this season. Well, you couldn't be farther from the truth, as nature keeps spoiling us with scientific treats. It all starts with the weather, which gets much colder. But th... |
4 December 2008
09:26 GMT |
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The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to be sent off to space from the Launch Complex 39A, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, in a mission that will take it to the International Space Station. Its crew of seven astronauts is already prepared and impatient, in an eve of liftoff mood. But weather has a ... |
12 November 2008
05:38 GMT |
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I have always believed that there is too much desktop space that remains unused, unless you like crammed places, which I don't. And since I am that kind of person who tries to find a solution to every problem, I started looking for functionality for my desktop background, one that wouldn't eat up my barely ... |
6 November 2008
04:01 GMT |
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Today, October 8, WeatherBug and Mobile Posse announced the availability of the former's weather information on the latter's service. Thus, the info available through WeatherBug (which is the world's leading provider of live and local weather information and services) will be displayed directly on the ... |
8 October 2008
10:36 GMT |
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Researchers from MIT discovered that trees carry a small amount of electrical power, and they founded a company which would harness it and use it as a source of power.Through their newly-founded Voltree company, the scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are trying to tap on tree energy and use it ... |
2 October 2008
03:58 GMT |
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We are in the middle of summer and as we speak almost everybody is thinking of taking a vacation at the seaside or in the mountains. But even if we manage to put things in order when it comes to taking time off work and planning everything for the perfect vacation, there's still something that we cannot control... |
31 July 2008
11:54 GMT |
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There are three natural phenomena accompanying the storms that fascinated and frightened human mind since prehistory, when explanation for such powerful natural phenomenon were attributed to gods and spirits. The thunderbolt is an electric discharge accompanied by a vivid light and a powerful sound, which occurs betw... |
12 April 2008
07:29 GMT |
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In March 2007 Jupiter spawned a new gigantic atmospheric storm measuring an area of the size of two Earth continents. However, the thick Jovian atmosphere makes the observation of processes which take place inside it very difficult, disabling a good understanding of meteorological phenomenons which trigger these stor... |
24 January 2008
03:00 GMT |
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This year's London Boat Show start has fortunately coincided with the launch of a very important addition to the Yachting and Boating World: an online maritime weather service that is said to be the best so far. Powered by Theyr.net, a numerical weather forecast service, it gives the most accurate information, d... |
11 January 2008
08:37 GMT |
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