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Storm Study Reveals a Sting in the Tail
Meteorologists have gained a
better understanding of how
storms like the one that
battered Britain in 1987
develop, making them easier
to predict. ... > full story
NASA Probe Gets Close-Up Views of Large Hurricane on Saturn
NASA's Cassini spacecraft
has provided scientists the
first close-up,
visible-light views of a
behemoth hurricane swirling
... > full story
Scientists Detect 'Dark Lightning' Energy Burst Linked to Visible Lightning
Researchers have identified
a burst of high-energy
radiation known as 'dark
lightning" immediately
preceding a flash of
... > full story
Superstorm Sandy Shook the U.S., Literally
When superstorm Sandy turned
and took aim at New York
City and Long Island last
October, ocean waves hitting
each other and the shore
rattled the seafloor and
much of the United States
... > full story
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New Metric to Measure Destructive Potential of Hurricanes
April 25, 2013 — Researchers have developed a new metric to measure seasonal Atlantic tropical cyclone activity that focuses on the size of storms in addition to the duration and intensity, a measure that may prove ... > full story -
NASA and JAXA's GPM Mission Takes Rain Measurements Global
April 15, 2013 — As anyone who has ever been caught in a sudden and unexpected downpour knows, gaps still exist in our knowledge about the behavior and movement of precipitation, clouds and storms. An upcoming ... > full story -
Dark Lightning: Are Airplane Passengers Exposed to Radiation from Intense Bursts of Gamma-Rays from Thunderclouds?
April 10, 2013 — Scientists have known for almost a decade that thunderstorms are capable of generating brief but powerful bursts of gamma-rays called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGFs. Because they can ... > full story -
Snowflakes Falling on Cameras: What Snow Looks Like in Midair
April 10, 2013 — University of Utah researchers developed a high-speed camera system that spent the past two winters photographing snowflakes in 3-D as they fell – and they don’t look much like those ... > full story -
Ten Times More Hurricane Surges in Future, New Research Predicts
March 18, 2013 — How much worse will the frequency of extreme storm surges get as temperatures rise in the future? How many extreme storm surges like that from Hurricane Katrina, which hit the U.S. coast in 2005, ... > full story -
When It Rains These Days, Does It Pour? Has the Weather Become Stormier as the Climate Warms?
March 17, 2013 — Scientists have shown that the signature of an increase in storminess could be extracted from precipitation data for the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. The scientists suspect the same ... > full story -
Changes in Heart Attack Timing Continue Years After Hurricane Katrina
March 7, 2013 — The upheaval caused by Hurricane Katrina seems to have disrupted the usual timing of heart attacks, shifting peak frequency from weekday mornings to weekend nights, in a change in pattern that ... > full story -
More Storms Like Sandy? Arctic Ice Loss Amplified Superstorm Sandy Violence
March 5, 2013 — Researchers have shown that the severe loss of summertime Arctic sea ice – attributed to greenhouse warming – appears to increase the frequency of atmospheric blocking events like the one ... > full story -
Saharan and Asian Dust, Biological Particles End Global Journey in California
March 1, 2013 — A new study is the first to show that dust and other aerosols from one side of the world influence rainfall in the Sierra ... > full story -
Living Through a Tornado Does Not Shake Optimism
March 1, 2013 — Even in the face of a disaster, we remain optimistic about our chances of injury compared to others, according to a new study. Residents of a town struck by a tornado thought their risk of injury ... > full story
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