Archive for the ‘World Weather’ Category
Thursday, September 20th, 2012 1:56pm MDT
Providing a voice of reason to the sometimes hysterical ravings of climate change alarmists, the scientific journal Nature cautions today that connecting global warming to disasters is not so easy. The jury is in fact still out on whether extreme weather events can be attributed to anthropogenic global warming, despite what some may say. As [...]
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Tags: Climate Change, Extreme Weather, global warming, Natural Disasters
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 1:01pm MDT
The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) launched its latest polar orbiting satellite yesterday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Metop-B spacecraft carries with it a host of instruments that will help feed models that forecast the weather and climate. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com and find out what [...]
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Tags: EUMETSAT, NOAA
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012 8:06am MDT
While North America has dealt with a deadly and devastating wildfire season, Australia as well has seen many bushfires rage across its wild lands. One fire in recent days burning near Alice Springs spawned a rare fire tornado that whirled through the Outback for 40 minutes. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com and [...]
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Tags: Australia, Fire tornado, wildfires
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Tuesday, May 17th, 2011 12:03pm MDT
With the effects of La Nina still in full force the globe’s temperatures performed as forecasted during April 2011. According to NOAA the month ranked as the seventh warmest April on record while Denver saw warmer and drier than normal conditions as well. Denver saw an average temperature during the month of 48.4 degrees – [...]
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Tags: April weather, climate, NOAA
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Sunday, May 8th, 2011 4:49pm MDT
Lightning is a very real danger, particularly here in Colorado where thunderstorms are common in the spring and summer months. The chances, while somewhat remote, always exist to be struck by lighting and a new YouTube video appears to show a man being struck not once, but twice. The amazing video surfaced on YouTube last [...]
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Tags: lightning
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Sunday, March 20th, 2011 6:42am MDT
We are now in the waning hours of winter as spring is set to arrive in Thornton later today – at 5:21pm to be exact. The changing of the seasons from winter to spring means longer days, warmer temperatures and a greening landscape. The Earth experiences seasons thanks to its 23 1/2 degree tilt. As [...]
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Tags: Seasons, Spring
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 2:54pm MDT
Devastating flooding over the past month and a half inundated hundreds of thousands of square miles in the Australian state of Queensland. The last thing the weary residents needed was more stormy weather but that is what came in the form of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi. Just a few days ago Tropical Cyclone Anthony made [...]
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Tags: Australia, Examiner.com, hurricane, Natural Disasters Examiner, Queensland, Tropical Cyclone Yasi
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Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 4:18pm MDT
Australia and Brazil have both been besieged by heavy rains and flooding in recent weeks. While Australia’s damage was more widespread, the death toll in Brazil has been far more severe. At latest count at least 809 people have been killed in the flooding in areas just north of Rio de Janeiro. 389 are reported [...]
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Tags: Brazil, flooding, Floods
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Friday, January 21st, 2011 3:47pm MDT
Sometimes you just can’t save people from themselves. With Australia battling flooding across four of its states, emergency officials have had their hands full providing relief and rescuing those affected by the disaster. The Natural Disasters Examiner reports about how the decision by a young couple to test the floodwaters with inflatable sex dolls earlier this [...]
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Tags: Australia, Examiner.com, flood, flooding, Natural Disasters Examiner
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Tuesday, January 11th, 2011 4:58pm MDT
The death toll from the relentless flooding in Queensland, Australia continues to climb as four people were killed in a flash flood. The rising waters have inundated an area covering hundreds of thousands of square miles and now threaten the city of Brisbane. The most recent fatalities, two adults and two children, occurred near the [...]
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Tags: Australia, flood, flooding, Queensland
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