Earth Science

The hurricane season causes much stress and anxiety every year in hurricane prone areas. However, much of this anxiety can be avoided if proper planning and adequate preparation are done in advance of that time. Preparation for the hurricane season…
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Good hurricane tracking software can serve two purposes.  One is just that it’s interesting for the hobbyist.  Many people find weather and storms fascinating, and hurricane tracking software is a wonderful tool to assist in the pursuit of this hobby….
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The last place you want to be as a hurricane is fast approaching is in a store fighting for the last gallon of water or paying ridiculous amounts of money for batteries due to price gouging.  The best time to…
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We are keenly aware of the devastating destruction that hurricanes can and have caused. We also know that they are graded on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale, a scale that is designed to estimate the storm surge and minimum expected…
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Human beings manipulate the weather both intentionally and unintentionally. So far, people have done little of the former but, potentially, a great deal of the latter. A growing number of scientists fear that our industrial activity will change weather and…
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Might there be some way to weaken hurricanes, so that they pose less of a danger to life and property? Scientists have long speculated about this possibility.  Occasionally they’ve even had a chance to test some of their ideas. The…
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How lightning is formed Lightning is a marvel of the natural world. Man in his desire to create can only try to copy natures deadliest fireworks display. When man stumbled upon electricity he began to understand the workings of natures…
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Though the monetary damage from hurricanes keeps rising over the years to where virtually all of the costliest hurricanes have been very recent, this is not true of hurricane death tolls.  Hurricane Katrina was an exception to the rule that…
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Oceans – which cover the majority of the planet – affect Earth’s climate by being an excellent heat sink and distributor. On a daily basis and from around the clock movement, the Earth’s oceans are responsible for most large weather…
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The trick with storing static electricity is that to do so it has to be transferred to a storage device all at once, rather than flowing in slowly like other storage systems – typically batteries. As static electricity represents the…
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