‘Storm of the Century?’ Try ‘Storm of the Decade’
Last August, Hurricane Irene spun through the Caribbean and parts of the eastern United States, leaving widespread wreckage in its wake. The Category 3 storm … Read more
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Field study of smoggy inversions to end
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2, 2011 — During the past two months, researchers launched weather balloons, drove instrument-laden cars and flew a glider to study winter inversions that often choke Salt Lake City in smog and trap dirty air in …
Variable southeast summer rainfall linked to climate change
DURHAM, N.C. — A doubling of abnormally wet or dry summer weather in the southeastern United States in recent decades has come from an intensification of the summertime North Atlantic Subtropical High (NASH), or “Bermuda High.”
And that intensif…
Tornado warnings are too often ignored
EAST LANSING, Mich. — With big storms ripping across the Midwest, Bob Drost is hoping people are paying attention to the severe weather and tornado warnings.
Unfortunately, Drost, a doctoral student at Michigan State University, knows that many…
