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What has been called a 100-year storm and even referred to as being of ‘biblical’ proportions is very slowly coming to an end. The worst of the rain fell on Thursday, September 12 with locations in Colorado’s foothills reporting in excess of 8 inches of rainfall. Among the hardest hit areas were the college town [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Progress battling the massive Rim Fire has been slow to come and while some gains have been made, the blaze continued to grow and now encompasses more than 280 square miles. The blaze has already intruded on Yosemite National Park and were perilously close to its infamous giant sequoia trees. Park officials were placing sprinklers [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Weather of course clearly affects wildfires but fires themselves can literally create their own weather. One such phenomena are pyrocumulus clouds and a photo from a wildfire in Alaska provides a stunning example. Pyrocumulus clouds are formed by fires or volcanos when the intense heat from the event rises from the surface. These clouds oftentimes [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Satellites provide an amazing eye in the sky for monitoring the weather and climate. Their usefulness today was once again proven as they captures wildfires exploding in Colorado’s southwest and thunderstorms to the northeast. The satellite imagery animation comes from the NOAA GOES East satellite and was assembled by Colorado State University RAMSDIS. It covers [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.While Colorado isn’t often considered a prime location for earthquakes, temblors can and do occur in the state every year. Many are in less populous locations but can be damaging. Our revamped earthquake page(s) help you keep tabs on the rumbling earth. We revamped our main earthquake page to now include an interactive Google map [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Disasters claimed thousands of lives in 2012 in the form of floods, earthquakes, tropical storms and tornadoes. This week NOAA released its list of top 10 global weather and climate events and natural disasters took their place in a number of spots. Drought in North America which we of course have seen here in Colorado makes the [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Record-setting heat and tinder dry conditions have brought devastating bushfires to Australia in recent weeks, hitting the island state of Tasmania the hardest. One family’s harrowing escape was captured in terrifying detail with pictures of them fleeing to water to avoid the fast moving flames. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com and check out [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s comment last week that those who suffered the effects of Hurricane Katrina had it easy as compared to the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy has sparked a quick and vicious response. Sen. David Vitter called the Democrat leader ‘an idiot’ Monday and Reid was forced to issue an apology. Read the [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.Hurricane Sandy is fast approaching the U.S. East Coast and is on target for landfall in southern New Jersey this evening. The effects of the storm are already being felt across a large part of the Mid-Atlantic region. The Weather Channel is of course providing 24 / 7 coverage of the historic storm on television [...]
Click here for the rest of the story.In a legal verdict that has sent chills through the scientific community across the globe, an Italian court has convicted six scientists and a government official of manslaughter. The court determined this week that the experts failed to adequately warn the populace of a deadly 2009 earthquake. Get complete details on this stunning verdict on Examiner.com.
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