Posts Tagged ‘hurricane’
Ralph the lady pelican successful in wild
A bird battered by a hurricane, mistaken as a male for months and nursed back to health at a Nova Scotia shelter is thought to be living successfully in the wild after charming her way into Canadians' hearts.
Tropical Situation in the Caribbean
By Alex Sosnowski, Expert Senior Meteorologist Jun 7, 2011; 5:13 AM ET A double-barreled area of disturbed weather in the Caribbean is bringing a flash flooding threat to some areas and hopes of drought relief to others. A broad area of low pres...
Hurricane Season Starts Sunday in Eastern Pacific
By Kristina Pydynowski, Senior Meteorologist May 13, 2011; 11:00 AM ET Sunday marks the official start of the 2011 hurricane season in the Eastern Pacific, a season which is expected to exceed the amount of named tropical systems from last year ...
Conservation of coastal dunes is threatened by poorly designed infrastructure
Published: Monday, April 25, 2011 - 10:03 in Earth & Climate Related images(click to enlarge) Sara Muñoz Vallés et al. Although the dune ecosystem is unusual, fragile and is protected by the "habitats" directive of the network Natura 2000, ...
Hurricanes Igor and Tomas get their names retired
The names Tomas and Igor will no longer be used to name hurricanes in the Atlantic, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) announced this March. Hurricane Igor made landfall near Cape Race, Newfoundland on September 21, 2010, and was that island's...
Storms Hit New Orleans with Hurricane-Force Wind Gusts
The threat for tornadoes continues along the central Gulf Coast this morning. Thunderstorms just hit New Orleans with hurricane-force wind gusts.
The winter of 2010 – 2011 officially over, but winter-like weather continues
It's March 1, and meteorological winter--the 3-month December, January, February period--is officially over. However, below-average temperatures and winter-like conditions will continue to affect most of the U.S. through the middle of March, and the gr...
Great Blizzard pounds Midwest; Australia braces for Category 4 Yasi
The Great Blizzard of February 1 - 2, 2011 is here. Oklahoma City is experiencing whiteout conditions, with heavy snow of 2 inches per hour being driven by ferocious winds of 36 mph, gusting to 46 mph. With a temperature of just 9°F, this is an extr...
2011: Year of the flood
The year 2010 was one the worst years in world history for high-impact floods. But just three weeks into the new year, 2011 has already had an entire year's worth of mega-floods. I'll recap here six remarkable floods that have already occurred this yea...
Top U.S. weather event of 2010: Snowmageddon
As we ring in the new year, it's time to look back on 2010 and reflect upon what a remarkable weather year it was. Today, I'll focus on the U.S. While 2010 certainly had its share of violent and destructive weather events in the U.S., I am thankful for...
Tropical Storm Alex Slows Oil Spill Efforts
According to Reuters, "Bad weather halted some clean-up efforts from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill on Tuesday as ...
Second Tropical Cyclone Ever in South Atlantic
Worst Natural Disasters in Haiti
The Telegraph is reporting that Hillary Clinton said : "It is biblical, the tragedy that continues to ...
Top 5 Natural Disasters Of The Decade
According to Scott Maniquet, National Post, "every decade has its share of natural disasters: earthquakes, floods, tornadoes, typhoons, ...
20 Things You Did Not Know About Hurricanes
"A typical hurricane releases some 600 trillion watts of heat energy, equivalent to 200 times the world’s total electrical generating capacity." From Jocelyn Rice, Discover Magazine, 20 things ...
Hurricane-killing wave pump
CNN takes a look at "8 weird ways to save the Earth". One of them is a "Hurricane-killing pump", for which Bill Gates is a ...
Heavy Rain Prompts Flood Warnings from NC to NY
From Steve Szkotak, Huffington Post: "A drenching, wind-driven rain lashed much of the Atlantic seaboard Thursday, flooding streets, closing schools, roads and bridges and ...
Tropical Depression Forms In Caribbean Sea
Hurricane Season:”We hope the good Lord spares us this year”
National Hurricane Center Predicts 9 to 14 Named Storms For 2009
The Washington Post was reporting yesterday on the press conference given by government officials in a cavernous airplane hangar at Reagan National Airport. "The first this ...
Interested In Hurricanes? Watch This Video
The 2009 hurricane season is upon us and officially starts on June 1st. Alan Sealls, Chief Meteorologist at WKRG News for Mobile-Pensacola, last year prepared an excellent video on hurricanes. Alan talks ...
Hurricane Names: Gustav, Ike And Paloma Are Retiring
Ken Kaye writes ...
Myanmar: One Year After Cyclone Nargis
Fewer Hurricanes For 2009, Colorado State University Forecast
USA Today reports that "there will be fewer Atlantic hurricanes this season than in 2008, and fewer even ...
Billion Dollar U.S. Weather Disasters In 2008
The National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) describes itself as the "Nation’s Scorekeeper in ...
Returning To Galveston After Ike
Again, spring breakers returned to Galveston this year. Also, according to USA Today, "More residents of Hurricane Ike-swamped Galveston have opted to return home ...
Watch: Galveston Revisited 5 Months After Hurricane Ike
CBS News went back to Galveston, Texas, ...
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