The eighth typhoon of the year has developed extremely rapidly and while passing offshore brought landslides and flooding to the Philippines. Typhoon Tembin now appears intent on heading toward Taiwan while yet another typhoon, Bolaven, looks to do the same soon after. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com with satellite imagery and forecast tracks for these two major storms.
The devastating 2012 wildfire season continues to expand and shift west as fires rage out of control in the northwestern United States. In northern California tinder dry conditions have allowed fires to grow quickly and prompted thousands to evacuate in recent days. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com including photos and satellite imagery.
A solicitation on a United States government website seeking hollow point bullets and targets for the National Weather Service caused an online stir today. NOAA was forced to quickly deal with the controversy saying it was a ‘clerical error.’ Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com
While on a routine patrol late last week a New Zealand Defense Force patrol craft spotted a massive area of pumice floating in the South Pacific from an unknown source. Teaming up with NASA, volcanologists today pinpointed the source of a raft of debris covering thousands of square miles. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com including satellite imagery of the undersea eruption.
Without a doubt the Mile High City – and much of the nation – has had an unusually warm summer. Records have tumbled regularly over the past couple of months and yet another is on the brink as we approach a record number of 90 degree days. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com to find out how close to the record we are.
The 2012 Atlantic hurricane season has been a relatively active one although not particularly notable. NOAA forecasters have updated their outlook for the season though and are cautioning that hurricane activity may soon increase in the basin. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com
To listen to the United States’ primary agency responsible for monitoring the climate, one would think the end is near as global temperatures continue to rise at an alarming rate. However, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) own monitoring network specifically designed to monitor global warming contradicts these claims. Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com to find out why we should be skeptical when we hear claims of record-setting heat.
Sweltering, unseasonably warm temperatures gripped much of the contiguous United States last month breaking many records. In the final analysis of the month, NOAA announced that July was the hottest month ever recorded in the U.S. How hot was it? Read the rest of this story on Examiner.com
The Mile High City found itself in a bit of a haze yesterday that continues into today as smoke from wildfires to Colorado’s northwest moves into the state. Dozens of fires are burning across the region and while none have been as devastating as those seen in recent months, their effects are being felt far and wide. Read the rest of this story and view satellite imagery of the smoke plume on Examiner.com.
July in usually the warmest month of the year in Denver so hot temperatures are not entirely unusual. However July 2012 exceeded all previous marks not only going into the history books as the hottest July ever but also…
