News articles tagged with 'thunderstorm'
Cassini chronicles life of Saturn's giant storm
— 18 Nov 2011 17:07 | AstronomyNew images and animated movies from NASA's Cassini spacecraft chronicle the birth and evolution of the colossal storm that ravaged the northern face of Saturn for nearly a year…
NASA's Fermi catches thunderstorms hurling antimatter into space
— 11 Jan 2011 17:26 | AstronomyScientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before…
Satellites give an eagle eye on thunderstorms
— 16 Dec 2010 16:34 | EnvironmentIt's one of the more frustrating parts of summer. You check the weather forecast, see nothing dramatic, and go hiking or biking. Then, four hours later, a thunderstorm appears out of…
NASA satellite data confirm a stronger Tropical Storm Tomas, hurricane warnings up
— 5 Nov 2010 13:57 | EnvironmentNASA's infrared satellite imagery has confirmed that Tomas is intensifying as convection is strengthening and cloud tops within the system are getting colder…
Tropical Storm Anggrek is tightly wrapped in NASA satellite imagery
— 3 Nov 2010 19:13 | EnvironmentBands of strong thunderstorms are wrapping around the centre of Tropical Storm Anggrek in the Southern Indian Ocean, according to satellite imagery. NASA's Aqua satellite captured an…
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…
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…
NASA satellite measures monstrous Hurricane Igor as a '10 hour drive'
— 15 Sep 2010 18:32 | EnvironmentHurricane Igor is a monster hurricane in terms of strength and size. To get a perspective on its size, it is the same distance from one end of the storm to the other as it is from Boston,…
Hurricane warnings posted on US East Coast, NASA sees Earl's heavy rainfall
— 2 Sep 2010 15:49 | EnvironmentNASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, or TRMM satellite looked at the rate rain was falling in Hurricane Earl yesterday, and it was intense…
NASA satellites see Tropical Storm Frank powering back up near Mexico
— 25 Aug 2010 11:42 | EnvironmentTropical Storm Frank was wavering overnight in the eastern Pacific Ocean, just off the southwest Mexican coast, and recent satellite data has confirmed that convection has strengthened…