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Hurricane Season is upon us and All Hands Fire Equipment is releasing important safety tips to help keep families out of harms way in the event of an approaching hurricane. Neptune, NJ (PRWEB) June 03, 2013 Hurricane Season begins on June 1 and ends on November 30. However, tropical storms, hurricanes and cyclones can occur at any time. Experts describe a hurricane as a severe tropical storm with a circular motion that forms in the warm waters of South Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico,...
Hail tracking for contractors is now faster, easier and affordable with SWIFT Weather’s new real-time Hail Alerts with a street-level preview delivered directly to a contractor’s email inbox within minutes of hailstorm damage occurring. A 30 day trial of Hail Alerts is available for only $1, there are no contracts, and users can cancel at any time. Minneapolis, MN (PRWEB) June 03, 2013 SWIFT Weather’s new Hail Alerts available on LiveHailReports.com is now the fastest, easiest and...
Greener Pastures, a sustainable tourism company based in Northeastern India, has launched two very exotic tours this summer from June to September, which provide travelers a chance to experience India's beloved monsoon season in the lush green tea plantations of Assam and in the verdant hills of Meghalaya, the planet's rainiest place. Dibrugarh, Assam (PRWEB) June 03, 2013 As the summer season is when the Indian subcontinent receives bountiful and godsent rainfall in the form of...
OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLAHOMA, June 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Equal Energy Ltd. (NYSE: EQU) (TSX: EQU.TO) today reported the effect on its operations of a tornado that occurred on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Specifically, Equal announced that its two field office buildings in Carney, Oklahoma were largely destroyed and that production was temporarily reduced. However, none of the company's employees or their families were injured. The company does not expect a material impact on its financial...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Three storm chasers who came to fame on a former Discovery Channel reality show were among the 10 individuals killed by tornadoes in central Oklahoma on Friday, various media outlets revealed on Sunday. Tim Samaras, the 55-year-old founder of tornado research firm Twistex (Tactical Weather Instrumented Sampling in Tornadoes Experiment), was killed in the Oklahoma City suburb of El Reno along with his 24-year-old son, Paul Samaras,...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Paleontologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute say that South American rainforests have thrived during three extreme global warming events in the past. Currently, no tropical forests in South America experience average yearly temperatures over 84 degrees Fahrenheit. By the end of the century, however, average global temperatures are predicted to rise by another 1 degree, leading some scientists to predict the death of...
--Almost half a million properties at risk in New York City metro area alone-- IRVINE, Calif., May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CoreLogic(®) (NYSE: CLGX), a leading residential property information, analytics and business services provider, today released its 2013 CoreLogic Storm Surge Report featuring updated estimations on both the number and value of single-family homes exposed to hurricane-driven storm-surge damage within the United States. According to this year's analysis, more...
Daily weather forecast and wrap-up provided by redOrbit meteorologist Joshua Kelly. redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from May 30: Another active severe weather day with around 16 tornadoes spread across Oklahoma, Arkansas and an isolated one in Illinois. Oklahoma saw five and Arkansas ten. Hail was a huge problem again with these storms. The largest recorded hail of the day comes out of Oklahoma with the size of 4.25 inches - equivalent to the size of a...
Red Cross/Weather Channel sound the alarm after survey finds coastal residents have a false sense of security WASHINGTON, May 31, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Less than a year after Superstorm Sandy, a new survey shows that few Americans living in coastal counties have taken necessary action to prepare for severe storms even as forecasters are predicting a busy 2013 hurricane seasons. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090108/RedCrossLOGO) The survey by the American...
NASA Tropical Storm Barbara strengthened into a hurricane just before it made landfall late on May 29, and after landfall it weakened into a tropical depression. NASA satellite imagery showed that cloud tops warmed and thunderstorms became more fragmented around the storm's center after Barbara made landfall. Barbara is moving across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec today, May 30. Barbara could regenerate over the Bay of Campeche, on the Gulf of Mexico side of Mexico, and satellite imagery is...
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An urban heat island (UHI) is a metropolitan area that is drastically warmer than its surrounding rural areas because of human activities. The phenomenon was first looked into and described by Luke Howard during the 1810s, although he wasn’t the one to name the phenomenon. The difference in temperature is normally bigger at night as opposed to during the day, and it most obvious when winds are weak. Seasonally, UHI is seen during the summer and the winter. The key cause of the urban heat...
Climate change is a substantial and lasting change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns over periods of time ranging from decades to millions of years. It might be a change in the average weather conditions, or in the distribution of weather around the average conditions. Climate change is a result of factors that include oceanic processes, biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received buy Earth, volcanic eruptions, and plate tectonics, and human induced alterations...
Surface Dew-points can play a huge role in weather forecasting. The first such role is that it helps determine the amount of moisture in the atmosphere for a given point. If we look at the current dew-point map above from January 28, 2013 we can note several things of interest. First, if we look at where the black circle is around the number 70, we can make note that this air right off the coast of Texas is at a dew point of 70F. The temperature outside must be above 70F, because the...
Air mass thunderstorms are found in marine time tropical air. In short they are also known as MT Thunderstorms. Air mass thunderstorms represent what is known as the common three stage thunderstorm development. This means that an air mass thunderstorm goes through the stages of Cumulus which is represented by the updrafts only being present; secondly it moves into the mature stage where it has both updrafts and downdrafts; finally it goes into the dissipating stage where you see only the...
In this lesson we are going to take a look at super-cell thunderstorms and what they mean and how they impact our daily lives. First, a super-cell thunderstorm is formed from a cumulus-nimbus cloud. Super-cell thunderstorms are the most advanced form of thunderstorms known on earth. This is because these types of thunderstorms need so many things to come together in the atmosphere at the same time. The first thing they need is the warm moist air at or near the surface. Secondly, is...
