10.16pm There’s been record wave height – 9.5m – this afternoon off Townsville. “This is the highest that has ever been recorded since measurements began in 1975,” Premier Anna Bligh said. Similarly in Cardwell we are planning for a storm surge of over 7m over the high tide mark, Lucinda Beach 4m and at Cairns […]
Tropical cyclone forecast track map: Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi, 11:59 pm AEST, Wednesday 2 February 2011. BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY Tropical Cyclone forecast track map: Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi Technorati Tags: Australia,flood,hurricane,global warming,climate change
Tropical cyclone forecast track map: Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi, 2:01 pm AEST, Wednesday 2 February 2011. BUREAU OF METEOROLOGY Tropical Cyclone forecast track map: Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi Technorati Tags: Australia,flood,hurricane,global warming,climate change
By Paul Colgan, Owen Vaughan, and Helen Davidson, news.com.auFebruary 02, 2011 9.10am Cairns Mayor Val Schier says the city could see Cyclone Tracy-like scenes when monster Cyclone Yasi hits, and anyone who decides to stay in homes in unsafe areas are on their own. “We look to what happened with Cyclone Tracy where people ended […]
Planktic foraminiferal data and temperature reconstructions of upper Atlantic Water in the eastern Fram Strait over the past ~2100 years from sediment core MSM5/5-712-1. Thin lines are raw data, bold lines are three-point running means. Black triangles on the age scale mark calibrated accelerator mass spectrometry 14C ages. (A) Fluxes of polar and subpolar planktic […]
Caption by Michon ScottJanuary 26, 2011 Snow fell in the U.S. Deep South, severe storms battered the East Coast, and International Falls, Minnesota, set a new temperature record: -46 degrees Fahrenheit (-43 degrees Celsius) on January 21. But in areas north of the United States and southern Canada, temperatures were above normal. In fact, unusual […]
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent; editing by Ralph BoultonFri Jan 28, 2011 5:33am EST OSLO (Reuters) – A North Atlantic current flowing into the Arctic Ocean is warmer than for at least 2,000 years in a sign that global warming is likely to bring ice-free seas around the North Pole in summers, a study showed. […]
Anomaly map of Greenland melting days for 2010 derived from passive microwave data. Hatched regions indicate where MAR-simulated meltwater production exceeds the mean by at least two standard deviations. Abstract: Analyses of remote sensing data, surface observations and output from a regional atmosphere model point to new records in 2010 for surface melt and albedo, […]
By Bob Henson 18 January 2011 Some fascinating weather has unfolded across the Northern Hemisphere over the last month, but you may have only heard about part of it. The media dutifully reported on the heavy snow that battered the mid-Atlantic and New England states in late December. It was also the United Kingdom’s coldest […]
ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2011) — To combat last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, nearly 800,000 gallons of chemical dispersant were injected directly into the oil and gas flow coming out of the wellhead nearly one mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, as scientists begin to assess how well the strategy worked at breaking […]
