Weather

After cyclone, Myanmar camps face monsoon threat

Tag: Cyclone Mahsen, Extreme Weather, Floods, Myanmar, OCHA, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Rakhine State, Rohingya Muslims, Weather

May 20, 2013

Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims were spared the full force of Cyclone Mahasen, but many are now returning to flimsy tents in flood-prone camps with the monsoon just weeks away. The country's Rakhine state is pockmarked with makeshift settlements for up to 140,000 people – mainly Rohingya Muslims – displaced by sectarian unrest last year.

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Tornadoes hit Kansas, Oklahoma in US; no injuries reported

Tag: Extreme Weather, Kansas, Local Weather, National Weather Service, Oklahoma, Tornado, USA, Weather

May 20, 2013

EDMOND, OKLAHOMA: A powerful storm system rumbled through the plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged roofs and structures near Oklahoma City and kicked up debris in Wichita, Kansas.

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Earth’s atmosphere hits highest level of CO2 in human history

Tag: Climate Changes, Environmental Changes, Global Warming, Local Weather, Scientist, Temperature Changes, Weather, World News

May 12, 2013

The concentration of carbon dioxide, a harmful greenhouse gas, in the atmosphere has reached a distressing number, the highest it’s been in millions of years. Scientists warn that this is the result of man-made climate change.

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Most Americans Blame Global Warming for Extreme Weather: Study

Tag: Americans, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Heat Index, Heat Spike, Heat waves, Research Study, Temperature Changes, Temperature Gauge, USA, Weather, World News

<p id="yui_3_8_1_1_1367577312071_589">With the exception of 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000.</p>

May 3, 2013

More than half of Americans think global warming is affecting weather in the United States, according to a new nationally representative survey that measures the pulse of American sentiment on climate change.

The newly released study shows that about two out of three Americans say weather in the country has worsened over the past several years, with only one in 10 saying the weather has been improving.

Americans also have strong views about the link between global warming and extreme weather.

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Slumbering Sun Should Wake Up This Year

Tag: NASA, Scientist, Slumbering Sun, Solar MAX Storm Warning, Solar System, Sun, Sun Storm, Sunlight, Temperature Changes, Weather

<p>The sun should roar back to life sometime in 2013, producing its second activity peak in the last two years, scientists say.</p>

March 23, 2013

The sun should roar back to life sometime in 2013, producing its second activity peak in the last two years, scientists say.

Our star has been surprisingly quiet since unleashing a flurry of flares and other eruptions toward the end of 2011. But this lull is likely the trough between two peaks that together constitute "solar maximum" for the sun's current 11-year activity cycle, researchers say.

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Recent heat spike unlike anything in 11,000 years: Study

Tag: Climate Change, Global Warming, Heat Spike, Industrial Revolution, Science, Temperature Changes, Weather, World News

March 8, 2013

WASHINGTON: A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a dramatic U-turn, lurching from near-record cooling to a heat spike.

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Russian meteor exploded with force of 30 Hiroshima bombs

Tag: Asteriod, Asteroid 2012 DA14, Disaster, Hiroshima, Meteorite, NASA, Nuclear Bomb, Russia, Russian Meteor, Siberia, Space, Weather, World News, World War II, Yekaterinburg

February 17, 2013

NEW YORK: The meteor that streaked across the Russian skies on Friday, injuring around 1,200 people, exploded with a force 30 times greater than the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, Nasa scientists say.

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Meteorite Strikes: 150 hurt as meteorite hits central Russia

Tag: Asteriod, Asteroid 2012 DA14, Disaster, Meteorite, NASA, Russia, Space, Weather, World News, Yekaterinburg

February 15, 2013

The meteorite then raced across the horizon, leaving a long trail of white smoke in its wake which could be seen as far as 200 km (125 miles) away in Yekaterinburg.

Russia: A meteorite shot across the sky in central Russia early and sent fireballs crashing to Earth, smashing windows, setting off car alarms and injuring 150 people.

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Satellite identifies potential danger atop Himalayas

February 11, 2013

BANGALORE: A satellite-based study has indicated that a huge glacial lake has formed atop the Himalayas in Sikkim with a "very high" potential for it to burst and create devastation downstream.