Half the Earth covered in snow
Snowball Earth! Or at least, half a snowball: NOAA satellite images show almost the entire northern hemisphere covered in snow.
Tag: weather
Night-Shining Clouds are Getting Brighter
For reasons unknown, for the past thirty years high altitude noctilucent clouds have been getting brighter.
Flooding in Australia
An evening pause:
Snowbound England
Images of a snowbound England.
I know it’s weather and not climate, but Europe is experiencing its second cold winter in a row, despite predictions by many in the global warming community that such things would never happen again. My point here is that their claims in the late 1990s that hot streaks and big storms were proof of global warming were patently dishonest, and it is worthwhile to remind ourselves of this fact.
No hurricane landfalls in US for second year in a row
The hurricane season is about to end, and though it appears that the predictions for this season were just about right, no hurricanes touched down in North America for the second year in a row. Key quote:
“There was only a 2% or 3% chance of getting this many hurricanes and not having one hit the U.S.”
Hailstorm in Oklahoma, May 16, 2010
An evening pause:
Funnel cloud over Kennedy Space Center
Yikes! A funnel cloud hovered over the space shuttle’s launch pad today, setting off tornado sirens. Fortunately, it did not touch down.
NOAA hurricane prediction update
The winds of Titan
Scientists are beginning to unravel the wind patterns on Titan.