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A storm (from Proto-Germanic *sturmaz "noise, tumult") is any disturbed state of an astronomical body's atmosphere, especially affecting its surface, and strongly implying severe weather. It may be marked by strong wind, thunder and lightning (a thunderstorm), heavy precipitation, such as ice (ice storm), or wind transporting some substance through the atmosphere (as in a dust storm, snowstorm, hailstorm, etc).

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Tropical Cyclone 05B forms southeast of Chennai, India

Tropical Cyclone 05B forms southeast of Chennai, India

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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

Tropical Cyclone 05B has formed out of "System 96B" in the Northern Indian Ocean and is forecast to approach southeastern India by Sunday, December 13 and make landfall on Monday.


A New View of Coronal Waves

A New View of Coronal Waves

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The corona is the hot outer region of the sun's atmosphere. The corona is threaded by magnetic fields that loop and twist upwards from the sun's surface, driven by motions of its dense atmosphere.


Cyclone Cleo back down to tropical storm status

Cyclone Cleo back down to tropical storm status

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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 ...


NASA captures a visible image of Cleo's new eye

NASA captures a visible image of Cleo's new eye

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

The Moderate Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument that flies on NASA's Aqua satellite has amazing resolution from space, and captured Cleo's cloudless eye early this morning. Cleo has intensified ...


Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest

Nida getting knocked by winds, and 97W piquing interest

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nida is now a tropical storm, and is being knocked around by wind shear in the Western Pacific. Satellite imagery has confirmed Nida's center of circulation is exposed and the storm is losing its circular ...


Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

Typhoon Nida's cloud tops dropping as it zigzags in wind shear

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Nida is battling to keep its typhoon strength in the Western Pacific Ocean as wind shear continues to tear at the storm and weaken it. NASA's CloudSat satellite noticed that Nida's cloud tops are not as high ...


Super Typhoon Nida to pass east of Iwo To and Chichi Jima

Super Typhoon Nida to pass east of Iwo To and Chichi Jima

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nida is still holding on to Super Typhoon status in the Western Pacific Ocean, and over the weekend, is forecast to pass east of both Iwo To and Chichi Jima islands. Although the center of Nida will remain ...


Caltech scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan

Scientists discover storms in the tropics of Titan

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 1

For all its similarities to Earth -- clouds that pour rain (albeit liquid methane not liquid water) onto the surface producing lakes and rivers, vast dune fields in desert-like regions, plus a smoggy orange ...


Harbingers of increased Atlantic hurricane activity identified

Harbingers of increased Atlantic hurricane activity identified

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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 ...


World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads for Great Plains

World's Largest Tornado Experiment Heads for Great Plains (w/Videos)

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

The largest and most ambitious tornado study in history will begin next week, as dozens of scientists deploy radars and other ground-based instruments across the Great Plains to gain a better understanding ...


New Solar Cycle Prediction: Fewer Sunspots, But Not Necessarily Less Activity

New Solar Cycle Prediction: Fewer Sunspots, But Not Necessarily Less Activity

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international panel of experts has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle, stating that Solar Cycle 24 will peak in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots. Led by ...


New type of El Nino could mean more hurricanes make landfall

New type of El Nino could mean more hurricanes make landfall

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (20) | comments 12

El Niño years typically result in fewer hurricanes forming in the Atlantic Ocean. But a new study suggests that the form of El Niño may be changing potentially causing not only a greater number of hurricanes ...


Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms

Researchers set alarm for incoming space storms

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton has broken new ground in outer space by pinpointing the impact epicentre of an Earthbound space storm as it crashes into the ...


BlackBerry Storm 2

BlackBerry Storm 2 coming soon (w/ Video)

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- RIM are soon to release their updated BlackBerry, the Storm 2 smart phone, with a more streamlined design and touch-sensitive buttons instead of the hardware buttons of the first version.


Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak

Honey, I Blew up the Tokamak

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 31, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 8

Magnetic reconnection could be the Universe's favorite way to make things explode. It operates anywhere magnetic fields pervade space--which is to say almost everywhere. On the sun magnetic reconnection causes ...