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NASA's New Wind Watcher Ready For Weather Forecasters
2014-11-11 05:12:48| rfglobalnet Home Page
In an early holiday gift to the world's weather and marine forecasting agencies, ocean-winds data from NASA's newest Earth-observing mission, the International Space Station-Rapid Scatterometer (ISS-RapidScat), are being released two months ahead of schedule.
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Bad weather for 2050 as TV forecasters imagine climate change
2014-09-01 18:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Imaginary television weather forecasts predicted floods, storms and searing heat from Arizona to Zambia within four decades, as part of a United Nations campaign on Monday to draw attention to a U.N. summit this month on fighting global warming. "Miami South Beach is under water," one forecaster says in a first edition of "weather reports from the future", a series set in 2050 and produced by companies including Japan's NHK, the U.S. Weather Channel and ARD in Germany. The U.N.'s World Meteorological...
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Forecasters Lower Hurricane Season Expectations
2014-08-07 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Hurricane activity in the Atlantic Ocean basin is likely to be even more lackluster for the remainder of the season than forecasters originally thought when it began on June 1. Forces like cool ocean waters and a stable atmospheric environment are keeping storms from forming and growing, and the El Nino that is faltering but still expected to develop could further quash storms, forecasters say. But even relatively subdued seasons can produce storms that cause considerable damage to coastal communities,...
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U.S. forecasters see below-normal Atlantic hurricane season
2014-08-07 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Federal forecasters on Thursday downgraded their outlook for the 2014 Atlantic hurricane season, predicting "below normal" activity with seven to 12 named storms, no more than two of which are expected to reach major hurricane status. The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said it was more confident of a below-normal season than when it issued its initial advisory in May, when a "near or below normal" season was predicted. The revised forecast predicts 70 percent chances...
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El Nio forecasters must not repeat mistakes of 1997
2014-05-07 19:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: IN JANUARY, climate researchers warned that extreme El Nio events are likely to become more common as the planet warms. It now seems that the world will have a chance to rehearse for the future as early as the end of this year. A major El Nio is massing in the Pacific Ocean and is likely to cause cyclones, tornadoes, droughts, floods and sea level changes across the world (see "World is unprepared for major El Nio later this year"). Many leading scientists say the approaching El Nio looks similar...