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Tropical storm Bud has now developed into a hurricane. NASA satellites observed that the atmospheric formation already has a very distinct eye, which is characteristic for all intense storms. The storm is currently southwest of Manzanillo, Mexico.Investigators at the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) say that the fo... |
26 May 2012
07:06 GMT |
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The Pacific Ocean is not expected to produce massive hurricanes this season, according to models compiled by climatologists. While it is possible that several large tropical storms will develop, the overall intensity of the hurricane season is expected to be below the average set over the past years.
The predictions... |
24 May 2012
11:04 GMT |
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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the American space agency's Terra satellite has just imaged the tropical storm Alberto, which is currently over the Atlantic Ocean. This photo was collected on Saturday, May 19.
Experts at the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) were the fi... |
21 May 2012
10:52 GMT |
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Hurricane Irene, a Category 3 storm that struck North America in August 2011, is not an “100-year event,” as some experts have suggested. Rather than being an anomaly, a new study shows, it represents a clear indicator of how storm intensity will evolve as global warming progresses.
Investigators at the ... |
13 February 2012
08:34 GMT |
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The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on the NASA Terra satellite managed to capture this amazing view of typhoon Nalgae heading towards the Philippines Archipelago.
The storm, known in the Pacific by the name Quiel, looks impressive in this image. According to weather experts, the s... |
1 October 2011
05:56 GMT |
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Recent tropical storms have caused significant disruptions of the fuel supply to the Pittsburgh area, forcing the EPA to temporarily waive certain federal clean gasoline requirements for parts of Pennsylvania.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with the Department of Energy, acted to alle... |
13 September 2011
06:59 GMT |
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A group of investigators has recently determined that it is possible to determine how hurricane seasons will look like years in advance, thus opening up a new avenue of research in predicting weather across seasons. This discovery is very important because it could potentially help save thousands of lives in areas th... |
8 November 2010
01:30 GMT |
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Weather experts warn of the looming threat that tropical storm Tomas is posing on the already-battered nation of Haiti. The atmospheric event may trigger massive landslides in areas that have already been destabilized geologically by the January 7.0-magnitude earthquake.According to current forecasts, it would appear... |
5 November 2010
10:57 GMT |
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Yesterday, October 18, the most intense tropical storm of the season struck in the western Pacific Ocean, making landfall in the northeastern parts of the Philippines, in the Isabela Province.According to meteorologists, this was the 7th cyclone of the 2010 season, and also the most intense. It was also the 15th trop... |
19 October 2010
03:21 GMT |
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The Miami, Florida-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced that subtropical storm Otto has been reclassified as Hurricane Otto, on October 8, at 11 am Eastern Time. According to experts, the storm is expected to weaken today, October 9, but it will continue to blast winds at sustained speeds of up to 75 miles... |
9 October 2010
06:16 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announced that last week saw the end of one of their largest ever hurricane studies, entitled the Genesis and Rapid Intensification Processes (GRIP) experiment.This investigations effort spanned more than two months of non-stop flights, that were carried out in an around the sto... |
8 October 2010
02:01 GMT |
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New satellite images have revealed that the 2010 hurricane season is for from over for America. Subtropical storm Otto has been lurking east of the Caribbean since yesterday, October 6.The subtropical depression that “haunted” the area for a few days finally decided to develop into a subtropical storm, an... |
7 October 2010
07:08 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency, who are currently conducting a detailed investigation of what makes tropical storms tick, say that their work is made incredibly easy by an unmanned air drone.NASA is operating a Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), which is generally used by the military for surveillance, ... |
25 September 2010
07:10 GMT |
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Numerous research flights took off over the past couple of days, all of them aimed at the recently-formed Hurricane Karl, which developed almost overnight from a tropical storm.As such, a record number of scientific flights were conducted into the intense storm, some of which were carried out using an unmanned aerial... |
17 September 2010
05:02 GMT |
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Experts at the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) announce that a new tropical storm has developed on the Western African coast on September 8. The atmospheric event has been named Igor. This is only the latest addition in a string of storms that have been developing all over the Atlantic Ocean at a brisk pace. With ... |
11 September 2010
07:06 GMT |
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As part of a study aimed at understanding hurricanes, three students at the Purdue University are continuing to fly over the Atlantic Ocean, collecting data on tropical storm Gaston. The formation is now yet fully structured, and this is precisely what makes it such an important target for study. Researchers say that... |
4 September 2010
05:04 GMT |
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Researchers reveal that hurricane Earl would cause extensive damage and victims in New York City, if it were to hit the city. They began worrying about such questions when weather services announced that the large tropical storm will move up the US East Coast before going further into the Atlantic and dissipating,. T... |
2 September 2010
09:57 GMT |
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Meteorologists warn that Hurricane Earl has just transformed into a Category 4 storm, which is already wrecking havoc in the French Antilles. The path the storm will take in the future is still unclear. According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), the atmospheric event is accompanied by heavy rains, and by wi... |
1 September 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Though it's been five years since the devastating tropical storm that struck New Orleans and the entire Gulf of Mexico area, the effects that Katrina left behind are still obvious to the untrained eye.For example, in the remote, uninhabited Chandeleur Islands chain, located east of New Orleans, all sand dunes we... |
27 August 2010
10:06 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency have already begun the first stage of the study they plan to conduct throughout this hurricane season, which will see them flying a high-tech airplane straight in the middle of the most impressive storms. The goal is to produce viable data on tropical storms, which may finally hel... |
27 August 2010
05:40 GMT |
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For the first time in nearly ten years, NASA will be conducting its own study into the cause of tropical storms. AS part of this research effort, the American space agency will be deploying three aircrafts into the Gulf of Mexico, over the Atlantic Ocean, and in the Caribbean Sea. Each of these airplanes will fly to ... |
6 August 2010
10:46 GMT |
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When tropical storms turn into hurricanes, people living around the Gulf of Mexico, and in neighboring US states, have good reason to be concerned. History has shown on countless occasions precisely how dangerous these atmospheric manifestations could be and that people would do good to get out of the way as fast as ... |
2 August 2010
04:41 GMT |
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Scientists have recently managed to develop a new model for predicting hurricanes, and the data does not look encouraging. Considering that the world is getting warmer, the amount of damage that the new storms could cause is larger than what has currently been witnessed. Meteorologists say that, over the next decades... |
22 February 2010
10:16 GMT |
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