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System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation

System 97W's 'castle wall' breached, and opened up to dissipation

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The "walls" of System 97W have been breached, and residents in the Western Pacific Ocean no longer have a tropical cyclone to worry about today. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center cancelled their "formation ...


Cyclone Cleo back down to tropical storm status

Cyclone Cleo back down to tropical storm status

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created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cleo has run into wind shear and it has weakened it from a cyclone to a tropical storm. Cleo's maximum sustained winds are now down to 69 mph, and expected to continue falling. NASA's TRMM satellite noticed ...


TRMM Satellite sees Cyclone Cleo coming to a close

TRMM Satellite sees Cyclone Cleo coming to a close

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created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rainfall in the once-known Cyclone Cleo has really diminished over the last 24 hours, and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite has confirmed it. Cleo is fading and the Joint Typhoon Warning ...


A Sharper View of Hurricanes

Research supports suggestions that global warming will do little to change hurricane activity

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 12, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

In a study published in the July 2008 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, Drs. David S. Nolan and Eric D. Rappin from the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science descri ...


Tropical Depression Neki nulled by cool waters and wind shear

Tropical Depression Neki nulled by cool waters and wind shear

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two ingredients that don't mix well with tropical cyclones are waters cooler than 80 degrees Fahrenheit and wind shear. Those two ingredients were added into Tropical Depression Neki's mix late yesterday, ...


Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

Cyclone Anja hits wind shear, weakens drastically

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created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

This morning, Cyclone Anja was a powerful Category 4 cyclone on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Wind shear has now giving Anja a strong "punch in the gut" as the storm has weakened to a Category 1 cyclone.


NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tropical Storm Cleo form in southern Indian Ocean

NASA's TRMM satellite sees Tropical Storm Cleo form in southern Indian Ocean

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created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (3) | comments 1

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite captured the birth of Tropical Storm Cleo in the southern Indian Ocean today, December 7.


Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

Terra satellite spots Tropical Cyclone Anja, the first of the southern season

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's Terra satellite captured a stunning image of Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season. When Anja formed on Saturday, November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about ...


NASA microwave image sees eyewall opening in Hurricane Linda

NASA microwave image sees eyewall opening in Hurricane Linda

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Linda managed to power up to hurricane status at 11 p.m. EDT last night (September 9), and she's running into cooler waters and wind shear, so she's not expected to hold that strength through tomorrow. Microwave ...


Gravity Waves Make Tornados

Gravity Waves Make Tornados

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 19, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (20) | comments 3

Did you know that there's a new breakfast food that helps meteorologists predict severe storms? Down South they call it "GrITs."


Research Re-examines Strong Hurricane Studies

Research Re-examines Strong Hurricane Studies

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created Mar 16, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have released a study supporting the findings of several studies last year linking an increase in the strength of hurricanes around the world to a global increase ...


NASA's infrared satellite sees warmer cloud tops in Tropical Storm Marty

NASA's infrared satellite sees warmer cloud tops in Tropical Storm Marty

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Marty is struggling to hold onto tropical storm status, and things are just going to get worse for him, as he moves into an area with stronger wind shear. Infrared satellite imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite ...


New research could help predict red tide

New research could help predict red tide

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created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not far beneath the ocean's surface, tiny phytoplankton swimming upward in a daily commute toward morning light sometimes encounter the watery equivalent of Rod Serling's Twilight Zone: a ...


Hurricane Felicia eyeing Hawaii while weakening on weekend

Hurricane Felicia eyeing Hawaii while weakening on weekend

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created Aug 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA satellite imagery has helped forecasters see that Hurricane Felicia is running into cooler waters and increasing wind shear, two things have taken her strength "down a peg or two." Felicia will continue ...


Harbingers of increased Atlantic hurricane activity identified

Harbingers of increased Atlantic hurricane activity identified

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created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (16) | comments 6

Reconstructions of past hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean indicate that the most active hurricane period in the past was during the "Medieval Climate Anomaly" about a thousand years ago when climate ...