Especially me and my tendency to wander off into directions unsubstantiated.geckzilla wrote:Please sign in. You may be lazy but I still have to click a button to put your name on the post. You've got your browser memorizing the challenge question so why not just have it memorize your username and password too?
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=83127 wrote: Extratropical Cyclone over the United Kingdom
EOS, February 16, 2014
<<Soggy winters are not unusual in the United Kingdom, but this winter has been in a category of its own. UK Met Office meteorologists had just declared January 2014 the wettest month on record for parts of southern Britain when another series of storms swept across the area in early February.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of an extratropical cyclone bearing down on the United Kingdom on February 12, 2014. Mature extratropical cyclones often feature comma-shaped cloud patterns that are the product of “conveyor belt” circulation. While heavy precipitation is often present near the low-pressure head of the comma, a slot of dry air usually trails the west side of the tail.
The storm brought the United Kingdom yet another round of heavy rain, as well as winds that exceeded 160 kilometers per hour. It snarled traffic, disrupted train service, and caused power outages for more than 700,000 people. The also exacerbated severe flooding in southern England. More than 5,800 homes have flooded since early December, according to media reports. Authorities have deployed thousands of soldiers to towns and cities in southern England to help with flood recovery.
Meanwhile, the Met Office was forecasting more of the same. They warned that another system bearing heavy rain and winds was lining up to push into the United Kingdom from the southeast on Friday morning.
http://www.universetoday.com/106727/powerful-new-next-gen-usjapan-gpm-satellite-to-revolutionize-global-precipitation-observations-and-climate-science-research/#more-106727 wrote:
Powerful New Next-Gen US/Japan GPM Satellite to Revolutionize Global Precipitation Observations and Climate Science Research
by Ken Kremer, Universe Today, February 22, 2014
<<NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, MARYLAND - Weather researchers and forecasters worldwide are gushing with excitement in the final days leading to blastoff of the powerful, new Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory. The $933 Million mission is a joint venture between NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan’s space agency. GPM is a next-generation satellite that will provide global, near real time observations of rain and snow from space and thereby open a new revolutionary era in global weather observing and climate science. Therefore it will have a direct impact on society and people’s daily lives worldwide. The team is counting down to liftoff in less than 5 days, on Feb. 27 at 1:07 PM EST from the Tanegashima Space Center, on Tanegashima Island off southern Japan, atop the highly reliable Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket. NASA TV will carry the launch live with commentary starting at 12 Noon EST on Feb. 27.
The GPM launch to low Earth orbit was delayed by both natural and manmade disasters – namely the 2011 Fukushima earthquake in Japan as well as the ridiculous US government shutdown in Oct. 2013. That’s the same foolish shutdown that also delayed NASA’s new MAVEN Mars orbiter and numerous other US space & science projects.The mission will significantly advance our understanding of Earth’s water and energy cycles and improve forecasting of extreme weather events. It is equipped with an advanced, higher resolution dual -frequency precipitation (DPR) radar instrument (Ku and Ka band) built by JAXA in Japan and the GPM microwave imager (GMI) built by Ball Aerospace in the US. “The GPM satellite was built in house at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland,” Art Azarbarzin, GPM project manager, told Universe Today during my exclusive up-close clean room inspection tour of the huge satellite as final processing was underway. Shortly after my tour of GPM, the 3850 kilogram satellite was carefully packed up for shipment to the Japanese launch site.
He that has and a little tiny wit--
With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,--
Must make content with his fortunes fit,
For the rain it raineth every day.
“GPM will join a worldwide constellation of current and planned satellites,” Azarbarzin told me during an interview in the Goddard cleanroom with GPM. And the imminent launch to augment the existing satellite constellation can’t come soon enough, he noted. The GPM observatory will replace the aging NASA/JAXA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), satellite launched back in 1997. “GPM is the direct follow-up to the currently orbiting TRMM satellite,” Azarbarzin explained. “TRMM is reaching the end of its usable lifetime. GPM launches on February 27, 2014 and we hope it has some overlap with observations from TRMM. The Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) observatory will provide high resolution global measurements of rain and snow every 3 hours,” Dalia Kirschbaum, GPM research scientist, told me during an interview at Goddard. It is vital to continuing the TRMM measurements and will help provide improved forecasts and advance warning of extreme super storms like Hurricane Sandy and Super Typhoon Haiyan, Azarbarzin and Kirschbaum explained.
Researchers will use the GPM measurements to study climate change, freshwater resources, floods and droughts, and hurricane formation and tracking. “The water-cycle, so familiar to all school-age young scientists, is one of the most interesting, dynamic, and important elements in our studies of the Earth’s weather and climate,” said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, in a statement. GPM will provide scientists and forecasters critical information to help us understand and cope with future extreme weather events and fresh water resources.”>>
The article includes a link to a really COOLEverything you need to know: The polar vortex
Matt Daniel writes:
The yellow dwarf is going to produce a heatwave on Earth this summer!
Now, if you hear the term yellow dwarf, you might think something exotic or unusual will happen this summer. You might, until you find out that I’m simply talking about our sun. Saying yellow dwarf instead of sun might catch on, and, if it does run rampant through social media, doubtless there will people who entirely miss the fact that I used the term originally to mean our sun. Likewise, the term polar vortex has gone viral through social media, television and people’s conversations this winter. People are using that term incorrectly, and there’s now a lot of confusion about just what a polar vortex really is. I’d like to help clear that up.
read the rest of the article at:
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Posting from the sunny subtropics...Shouldn't that be... Margarita, posting from the yellow dwarfy subtropics?Margarita wrote:Margarita
Nice one!Beyond wrote:Shouldn't that be... Margarita, posting from the yellow dwarfy subtropics?Margarita wrote:Margarita
More here: http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-n ... i/23807839http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/heavy-rain-mountain-snow-to-ai/23807839 wrote:
Evacuations Ordered as Heavy Rain, Mountain Snow Aid California Drought
By Brian Lada, Accuweather Meteorologist, February 27, 2014
<<Another round of rain is headed for California before the end of the week, bringing further relief from the extreme drought gripping much of the Golden State. However, the storm will cause some problems as well. This rain is forecast to move in on Friday, right on the heels of the storm that brought rain to parts of the state on Wednesday. This second storm will have some differences though, including a heavier rain that will span across the entire state.
As beneficial as this rain will be, it does pose some dangers, particularly to those living in Southern California. A mandatory evacuation due to a high probability of debris and mudflow was ordered Thursday in the Colby Fire Impact Area in Glendora, Calif., according to the Glendora Police Department's Facebook page. The department said there is the risk of injury and/or death in the event of such a debris or mudflow. A mandatory evacuation order has been issued in Azusa, Calif., for 11 residences that have been identified by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works as having a high potential for mud flow flooding.
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More here: http://www.universetoday.com/109831/cli ... eport-sayshttp://www.universetoday.com/109831/climate-change-is-now-more-certain-than-ever-new-report-says/#more-109831 wrote: “Climate Change is Now More Certain Than Ever,” New Report Says
by Shannon Hall, Universe Today, February 28, 2014 <<Climate change is one of the defining issues of our time. So begins the latest report by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the United Kingdom’s Royal Society. The two institutions agree: climate change is not only indisputable, it’s largely the result of human activities.>>
Whatever that means. 99.99% instead of 99.9%? Whatever. The that just makes the deniers 10 times more convinced they're right!neufer wrote:http://www.universetoday.com/109831/climate-change-is-now-more-certain-than-ever-new-report-says/#more-109831 wrote:
“Climate Change is Now More Certain Than Ever,” New Report Says
by Shannon Hall, Universe Today, February 28, 2014
Well as far as the weather is concerned; i wish it would warm up! It is freezing cold out here and is supposed to get colder!rstevenson wrote:Isn't this the weather thread, not the climate thread?
Rob
It is only 4F right now and is supposed to get to -10F overnight; not to mention snow in the forcast! I'm staying indoors! That's how I feel when I have to go someplace like Australia, or California, or Hawaii. I'm always glad I don't have to live there.rstevenson wrote:From a cartoon I saw yesterday... "The air hurts my face. Why am I living where the air hurts my face?"
Australia is a pretty big place, just slightly smaller than mainland USA. You'd probably like the weather in Tasmania.Chris Peterson wrote:That's how I feel when I have to go someplace like Australia, or California, or Hawaii. I'm always glad I don't have to live there.rstevenson wrote:From a cartoon I saw yesterday... "The air hurts my face. Why am I living where the air hurts my face?"
