17th September - Today's News: Big Storm Hits Tasmania & NZ
A big storm wreaks havoc across New Zealand and the same system has also affected Tasmania where monster cold snap hits State. Though the NZ MetService are not too happy the way that 'massive storm' goes viral online.
And elsewhere in Australia, locusts on the move as plague threatens to ruin winter crops
In the Gulf, Karl becomes 'major' hurricane, closes oil wells whilst out in the Atlantic, Igor is a monster among hurricanes. At one point both Igor and Julia were at Cat 4 - the first time there have been two Cat 4 hurricanes churning the Atlantic at the same time since 1922.
Arctic ice levels 3rd lowest on record
Glaciers help high latitude mountains grow taller
37 US States set nighttime high temperature records this summer
And overall, so far this year 2010 tied with 1998 as warmest global temperature on record - this despite very low solar activity compared with 12 years ago.
Growing La Nina chills out the Pacific
Not really news to some of us, but tornado-casing becomes vacation choice, researchers find.
One person killed as tornado-like storm with 100mph winds sweeps through New York City
Decreased frequency of North Atlantic polar lows associated with future climate warming - which is bad news for some in Britain because polar lows are one of the more exciting features of a northerly airflow in winter, often bringing some heavy snowfall.
Drought shrinks Amazon River to lowest level in 47 years
And apparently the White House are saying 'global warming' out, 'global climate disruption' in - they want the public to use the latter phrase because 'global warming' doesn't sound dangerous enough. Allegedly. If you believe Fox News ....
And elsewhere in Australia, locusts on the move as plague threatens to ruin winter crops
In the Gulf, Karl becomes 'major' hurricane, closes oil wells whilst out in the Atlantic, Igor is a monster among hurricanes. At one point both Igor and Julia were at Cat 4 - the first time there have been two Cat 4 hurricanes churning the Atlantic at the same time since 1922.
Arctic ice levels 3rd lowest on record
Glaciers help high latitude mountains grow taller
37 US States set nighttime high temperature records this summer
And overall, so far this year 2010 tied with 1998 as warmest global temperature on record - this despite very low solar activity compared with 12 years ago.
Growing La Nina chills out the Pacific
Not really news to some of us, but tornado-casing becomes vacation choice, researchers find.
One person killed as tornado-like storm with 100mph winds sweeps through New York City
Decreased frequency of North Atlantic polar lows associated with future climate warming - which is bad news for some in Britain because polar lows are one of the more exciting features of a northerly airflow in winter, often bringing some heavy snowfall.
Drought shrinks Amazon River to lowest level in 47 years
And apparently the White House are saying 'global warming' out, 'global climate disruption' in - they want the public to use the latter phrase because 'global warming' doesn't sound dangerous enough. Allegedly. If you believe Fox News ....
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