Earth Science

The latest statistics have become quite alarming. Sciencedaily.com posted an article recently that noted that July 2012 was the hottest month on record in the United States. That dates back to 1895, when statistics of this nature began to be…
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We often hear meteorologists on television speaking of a tropical depression “becoming better organized” as it develops into a tropical storm and then a hurricane. And probably everyone has seen satellite images of the distinctive spiral shape of these great…
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I am sitting here looking at the radar map for my state of Arkansas. I count four different tornado watch areas overlapping each other. The forecast for my area is thunderstorms after midnight tonight, so no sleeping for me. If…
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To say there will not be any benefits from global warming is just as closed minded as saying global warming is a myth. No one can predict with exact certainty how the conditions will be for EVERY location on Earth….
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Why would you call a hurricane Andrew or Katrina? Does in not seem a little asinine to personalise the meteorological monsters that deliver such devastation and misery to the population in many areas of the world? Perhaps it is reasonable…
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In spite of what is depicted in the media and is portrayed in children’s cartoons being struck by lightning does not mean you will burst into flames. Clothes can however get shredded and hair may be singed but you will…
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The jet stream is an amazing phenomenon of weather. From cold winter storms, to warm spring rains, the jet streams bring weather changes to parts of the earth. There are two jet streams in the Northern Hemisphere: The Polar Jet…
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Who would be a member of the hurricane hunter? It can be hard to believe that people would deliberately volunteer to fly through the eye of a hurricane, but there are those who do. Whether one would consider these people…
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Weather is created due to the day by changes in the atmosphere, and the motion of the earth spin, drags the atmosphere around with it, with the overall result being a combination of global patterns of wind which follow a…
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the nile river can be divided into three zones, the first zone consists of tributaries to the two streams of the white nile and the blue nile which forms a confluence near khartoum in sudan. the second zone is the…
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