Weather & Earth Science News

Massive earthquake strikes Chile - although there are few reports of deaths at present, it's often the nature of such events that the full scale of devastation isn't know for some time, especially when remote regions are struck. It also appears that a tsunami was generated though details on this are currently sketchy. However, Hawaii under tsunami advisory and right across the other side of the Pacific they're taking the risk very seriously as RP told to prepare for possible tsunami evacuation . Earlier, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake rocks Okinawa . Tsunami warnings generated by this have been canceled. In the NE USA, New Yorkers battle third heaviest snowstorm on record and a combination of factors made for odd snowstorm - contrary to what is suggested at the end of the article, thundersnow is not an indication that milder weather is on the way! Meanwhile, in New Hampshire, state of emergency declared after violent storm . There are cheers, tears and fears for moun...

Well, what a week it's been in the Highlands. 2 solid days of snowfall producing around 40cm (16") of level snow in Aviemore, 80cm on Wednesday alone at the White Corries in Glencoe (that was the deepest fresh snow cover at any ski resort in the world that day) and reports today of around 1.5 to 2m of fresh powder having accumulated at the Cairngorm ski centre - with more higher up. It's been such a big story that it received exactly 0.000 seconds worth of coverage on the main BBC ten o'clock news bulletin last night ..... However, at Weather & Earth Science News we think it's a slightly more important and interesting news story than some report about life in Cuba. And there have at least been a few reports on the internet media, though still less than you might have expected given probably the heaviest snowfall in years: Hundreds of drivers trapped in cars as return of the Big Freeze brings roads to a halt Freezing night for motorists as A9 is blocked by...

Experts settle hurricane and global warming feud; predict bigger storms but fewer ones Better snowfall forecasting Snow fall across most of Scotland again One person killed in gales in Tbilisi Marine scientist finds Little Ice Age had dramatic effect on Gulf 'Snow hurricane' faces New York, Pennsylvania as storm nears Did ice exist at the equator some 300 million years ago? Barents Sea - an effect ocean cooler Spanish roof collapse kills Spanish expatriates - possibly caused by the recent heavy rain in the region. Sharp decline in public's belief in climate threat, British poll reveals - but as we all know, there can't possibly be any global warming because it's been a cold winter! Yet another maddening example of the media misrepresenting the truth and lying to the public in order to make a more sensational story: coral reefs will dissolve within 100 years due to acidic seas The world's most stunning coral reefs will have dissolved within 100 years, a new stu...

Well there was another few cm of snow last Thursday, still on the ground when I left for Stirling on Friday morning and a few traces on the ground even now - though I understand there was fresh snow at times over the weekend too. And there's more (possibly) heading up from the SW as I write ..... Meanwhile, Braemar in the Scottish Highlands has seen the temperature plummet below -18c again this week. It's certainly proving a long and interesting winter. Maybe the first 'real' winter in decades! Quite a few news stories to catch up on from over the past few days, but - sadly - the leading story has to be the floods and mudslides in Madeira where official reports give the death toll at 42 plus another 32 missing - possibly swept out to sea:- Madeira floods and mudslides kill 32 Aid and resuce experts on way as death toll rises 70 feared dead Rescue crews find body in car buried by landslide Rescue teams work round the clock in Madiera Whilst the rainfall was except...

It's snowing again in Evesham - and could well do so for much of the day though whether we get any significant accumulation waits to be seen. I should be travelling up to Stirling to tomorrow for some Mountain Bothy Association meetings this weekend, so assuming I'm able to get away in the morning, this'll be the last news round up till the middle of next week. And on the subject of snow ..... Snow mould turns lawns pink (my garden was definitely green when I left home - though I think it may be white when I get back!) Cold weather delays Spring blooms in Devon and Cornwall and there's a climate change threat to berries They've been asking in Fermanagh: why does it always rain on us? In Canada, Maritime storm brings heavy snow, school closures, travel disruption whilst across at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, weather at Cypress has always been fickle - now they tell us! Tornado rips through Queensland farm - and is captured on video Meteorite, maybe older t...

In Washington, snow volunteers pitch in to shovel as schools try to open while the South gets 2nd dose of snow in days Southern Italian landslide caught on video Fog has declined in past century along California's redwood coast Tonga mops up after Cyclone Rene And some good news as researchers at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden discover that climate change will lead to fewer accidents ...... in the West Midlands!

Well the Daily Mail have been at it again with another false headline: Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: there has been no global warming since 1995 - except, of course he said no such thing. The actual interview - which is quite enlightening - to which the Mail refers can be read in its entirety here . You may also be interested in Michael Tobis's thoughts on the subject . UN global warming data skewed by heat from planes - or is it? If this were the case, stations in the vicinity of airports would show an anomaly compared with other nearby station not so affected, and indeed a day to day (or even hour to hour) anomaly according to aircraft activity. There is thus far no evidence that they do. Such stations do however show similar warming trends compared with more rural locales - the CET record in England for example. But then, this allegation of skewed data does come from the person who wants us to believe that, in Britain, the 18th century, at...