Earth Science

The news is filled with the sad stories of people who have been forced to endure a natural disaster. The perplexing thing is that these events are highly predictable. Their predictability makes devastation all the more frustrating because of the…
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The Jet Stream, Gulf Stream, Polar Shifts and Global Climate Change Are the two connected? Yes I firmly believe they are. What is happening to the jet stream is similar in ways to what is happening to the Gulf Stream….
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Rain gauges come in all shapes and sizes; they can be inexpensive plastic ones which cost less than ten dollars all the way up to extrmely accurate (and pricey) versions in the many hundreds of dollars. The most popular design…
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Is it possible for us to slow or even reverse the Earth’s current global warming trend through the use of cloud seeding technology? The only reasonable answer to this question, based on our current knowledge and technical ability, is probably….
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Cirrus clouds are the thin, wispy clouds that sometimes look like white feathers in an otherwise clear sky. The word cirrus comes from latin and means curl, comparing them to the tendril-like curl of hair or a feather. To see…
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Super storms are large atmospheric instabilities that are often caused by a powerful cold front colliding with a high pressure system. During the process, large amounts of rain, hail, snow and lightning is discharged from the system. Powerful storms have…
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Historically and geographicaly United States has some of the highest weather related destruction and casualties in the world. “Only In America” phrase would describe this natural phenomenon perfectly. Record keeping of natural disasters related to weather have only been around…
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It was not an ordinary snowfall of the winter season. Instead, a brutal ice storm hit nearly all parts of the state and left about 700,000 people without power for over four days after the deadly storm. Normally the first…
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Besides dictating a lot of our every day decisions. Weather has a large emotional impact on us from day to day. During the summer, people look forward to waking up early, embracing the clear skies and taking advantage of the…
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Our Sun supplies 99.9 percent of the energy that powers biological life on our planet, Earth. Photosynthesizing plants, algae and phytoplankton trapping that energy in molecules of carbohydrates at the bottom of tremendously complex food webs. Just as the Sun…
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