Posts tagged weather
Naming Nemo: How the Storm Got Its Name
Back in October 2012, everybody was poohooing The Weather Channel’s (TWC) plan to start giving names to significant winter storms. Now it looks like a large number of reports on the storm, dubbed Nemo by TWC, have adopted the name (not all, by any means, but lots, including Discovery News).
What happened? I’ll say it in three words: search engine optimization. Despite very reasonable arguments against the naming of winter storms by many meteorologists, we are seeing them adopted anyway.
What’s a Nor’easter?
A nor’easter is a type of cyclone that can pack hurricane force winds and dump torrents of rain or feet of snow. Cyclonic storms, including nor’easters and typhoons, form around low pressure systems in the atmosphere. Unlike their tropical typhoon cousins, nor’easters are fueled by cold air.
El Nino Unlikely Before End of Year:
“Model forecasts and expert opinion suggest that the likelihood of El Nino conditions developing during the remainder of 2012 is now low,” the World Meteorological Organization said in its latest update.
wnyc:
Image of the day so far: voting by flashlight in a makeshift polling tent on Staten Island. (via NYTimes)
-Jody, BL Show-
make sure you vote today, tumblr people!
and if you’re in the NJ/NY area, good luck and let us know how it goes.
(via mattlehrer)
in case you missed it…
This Ghost Nebula is No Fake Sandy Photo
Join Trace as he calls out the fake photos of Hurricane Sandy, gets creeped out by a ghost nebula and finally explains how the giant moai statues were moved around on Easter Island!
sorry to hurt your feelings social media, but these all be fake.
As Hurricane Sandy clobbered the the most populated region of the United States, many people took to social media and the Internet to receive and circulate information about what experts called a 100-year storm.
As is typically the case with natural disasters — especially in this digital age — viral photos quickly put a face on the catastrophe. However, it turns out many of the most popular images pinballing around the Internet during the storm were either fake or outdated. Even major media outlets got duped.
Hurricane Sandy’s Path of Destruction
Hurricane Sandy slammed the east coast of the United States on Monday and is on track to continue to pound the area through Tuesday night.
With up to 90-mph winds and 11-foot storm surges that forecasters called “life-threatening,” the 900-mile wide hurricane has caused widespread damage in an area unaccustomed to such violent storms. Up to 50 million people are threatened by the storm’s impact.
Take a look at some of the damage wrought by this historic storm…
Curious to see where Sandy’s flying? Want to see live cameras of the affected areas or learn more about the storm itself?
Check out the Discovery News Storm Tracker!
Across the eastern United States, Americans scrambled to stock up on supplies and secure homes as Hurricane Sandy — billed as a superstorm — lumbered north after leaving dozens dead in the Caribbean.
The center of the so-called Frankenstorm is expected to move over the coast of the Mid-Atlantic states this evening or tonight. “The storm is expected to transition into a frontal or wintertime low pressure system prior to making landfall, though this transition will not be accompanied by a weakening of the system. And in fact, a little strengthening is possible during this process,” reported the National Hurricane Center.
The Subway Looks Kind of Creepy When Its Empty
It’s a rare sight to behold in the city of 24-hour everything.
[Image: Flickr/MTA]
And also surprisingly clean.
I wonder what it sounds like down there…
Top 10 Worst Weather Disasters
The Earth has the most complicated atmosphere in the solar system, so complicated that meteorologists look to other planets to understand how our weather works. Combined with its constantly active plate tectonics, our planet is truly an adventurous place to live.
As the East Coast of the United States braces for a storm of historic proportions in Hurricane Sandy, we take a look back at awesome Earth events past, from earthquakes, to blizzards, to floods.
