News tagged with snowstorm
El Nino Could Play A Role In Colorado's Winter Weather, Scientist Says
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 17, 2009 |
2 / 5 (1) |
2
(PhysOrg.com) -- El Nino, a warming event of the tropical Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns in the United States and elsewhere, has strengthened in recent months and already appears to have influenced Colorado's ...
Snow slackers can be found around the world
Feb 04, 2009 |
3.5 / 5 (2) |
2
The streets were strangely quiet as I walked my daughter to school Tuesday morning. Baby stroller traffic jams are the norm in our south London neighborhood, nicknamed the "Nappy Valley" for its prodigious birthrate. But ...
Search results for snowstorm
Thundersnow Often Means Lots of Snow
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 18, 2006 |
3.6 / 5 (11) |
0
It's rarely a good sign when a snowstorm produces lightning and thunder, according to University of Missouri-Columbia atmospheric scientists, who warn that such weather behavior is often the precursor to a bigger problem: ...
Chasing thundersnow could lead to more accurate forecasts
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 13, 2009 |
3 / 5 (2) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- The job of one University of Missouri researcher could chill to the bone, but his research could make weather predicting more accurate. Patrick Market, associate professor of atmospheric science in the College ...
Vegetable oil powers cross-country trip
Apr 25, 2006 |
5 / 5 (2) |
0
Tom Holm, host of the "Adventure Highway" TV series, has set a record of sorts -- driving cross-country in a truck fueled by vegetable oil.
Some Super-Earths Form in Super Snowstorms
Oct 11, 2006 |
4.7 / 5 (18) |
0
The 200 known planets that orbit other stars exhibit incredible variety. Among them are a handful of worlds that weigh between 5 and 15 times Earth. Astronomers believe these "super-Earths" are rocky iceballs rather than ...
New breast CT scanner rivals mammography
Nov 28, 2006 |
4.8 / 5 (30) |
0
At the Radiological Society of North America meeting in Chicago on November 27, researchers will unveil a new imaging system developed at the University of Rochester that showed in a pilot study it could capture images equal ...
Global warming impacting Greenlanders' daily lives
Jul 09, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (76) |
21
From his trawler that motors along the Nuuk fjord, fisherman Johannes Heilmann has watched helplessly in recent years as climate change takes its toll on Greenland.
Beaming new light on life: From beetles to aircraft, nanoparticles aid microscope views
Feb 05, 2009 |
4.8 / 5 (6) |
0
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah physicists and chemists developed a new method that uses a mirror of tiny silver "nanoparticles" so microscopes can reveal the internal structure of nearly opaque biological ...
Wireless Nanotech Sensors Could Monitor Power Systems 24/7
Oct 24, 2006 |
4.3 / 5 (6) |
1
As electric power this week returned to the last of the homes and businesses in Western New York affected by the devastating October snowstorm, researchers at the University at Buffalo were discussing how tiny, nanoscale ...
Flu overhyped? Some say officials 'cried swine'
May 07, 2009 |
not rated yet |
1
(AP) -- Did government health officials "cry swine" when they sounded the alarm on what looked like a threatening new flu? The so-far mild swine flu outbreak has many people saying all the talk about a devastating ...
Satellites Offer Sunny Outlook on Understanding Polar Climate, With Help of Cloudy Skies
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 24, 2007 |
5 / 5 (5) |
0
Far beyond signaling the day’s weather, clouds play a key role in regulating and understanding climate. A team of researchers recently completed a project to confirm what NASA satellites are telling us about ...
List of search results for snowstorm
