News articles tagged with 'storm' (Page 2)
First-of-its-kind study finds alarming increase in flow of water into oceans
— 5 Oct 2010 05:01 | EnvironmentFreshwater is flowing into Earth's oceans in greater amounts every year, a team of researchers has found, thanks to more frequent and extreme storms linked to global warming. All told,…
NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Matthew grow quickly, warnings up in Central America
— 25 Sep 2010 12:35 | EnvironmentAn instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite noticed increasing colder cloud top temperatures of tropical depression 15 in the south-central Caribbean just before it strengthened into Tropical…
NASA's CloudSat satellite sees a powerful heat engine in Typhoon Malakas
— 25 Sep 2010 12:32 | EnvironmentTowering thunderstorms and heavy rainfall are two things that NASA's CloudSat satellite saw as it passed over Typhoon Malakas, and those two factors confirm a strong storm. NASA's CloudSat…
GOES-13 Satellite sees Lisa a tropical storm, for now
— 25 Sep 2010 12:29 | EnvironmentThe GOES-13 satellite has been keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Lisa and watched her birth, graduation to depression then tropical storm and back to depression. Now, Lisa has grown…
GOES-13 sees tropical depression 15 form in the south-central Caribbean Sea
— 24 Sep 2010 11:11 | EnvironmentThe fifteenth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean season has formed in the south-central Caribbean Sea, and the GOES-13 satellite captured its swirling mass of clouds and showers…
GOES-13's wide view of Atlantic's Tropical Storm Lisa and low, Pacific's Georgette
— 23 Sep 2010 09:48 | EnvironmentThe GOES-13 satellite may be stationed in orbit over the eastern U.S., but it has a wide field of view from the eastern Atlantic to the eastern Pacific, and today it captured three…
NASA infrared imagery sees tropical depression 14 becomes 12th tropical storm: Lisa
— 22 Sep 2010 09:43 | EnvironmentThis Atlantic hurricane season has now spawned 14 tropical depressions and 12 of them have strengthened into tropical storms. The latest is now called Tropical Storm Lisa and is in…
Hurricane watches up in Canada as the GOES-13 Satellite sees Hurricane Igor still expanding
— 22 Sep 2010 09:40 | EnvironmentHurricane Igor may be changing into an extra tropical storm and losing his warm core of energy, but he hasn't lost his punch as hurricane watches are up today in eastern Canada. The…
GOES-11 catches quick birth of Tropical Storm Georgette already moving into Baja California
— 22 Sep 2010 09:37 | EnvironmentTropical Storm Georgette formed pretty quickly and the GOES-11 satellite captured her clouds extending over extreme southern Baja California and western Mexico today. Georgette formed…
NASA sees Tropical Storm Julia getting 'dusted'
— 21 Sep 2010 11:22 | EnvironmentDust has been blowing into the Eastern Atlantic Ocean from Africa's Saharan Desert, and a NASA satellite captured some of that dust east of Tropical Storm Julia…