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Monday, 20 June 2016

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The Bolt from the Blue That Can Kill You 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-06-20 01:33:06]  recommend  recommend this post  (158 visits) info
Most folks know to get inside when a thunderstorm approaches, and we meteorologists keep telling folks that unless you are in tornado alley, you’re much more likely to die in a flood or by lightning, than a tornado. The word is getting out, because deaths due to lightning have dropped dramatically over the past 60 years. Even so, most folks worry much more about tornadoes than floods or lightning bolts,

Solar Power for the Home 

Ontario-geofish [2016-06-06 01:07:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (189 visits) info
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No need for solar panels that get torn off with the first tornado, you can employ the very heat that tries to turn your house into a sauna.  For everyone I know with an older house, you just can't get the upstairs cool without icicles in the basement. I'm getting my roof redone with the full enchilada of a competent company (Walker).  It's costing a mint because the house is a dog's

How to Survive A Tornado 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-05-11 00:06:57]  recommend  recommend this post  (217 visits) info

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I have said it to countless people over the last 36 years: Put as many walls between you and the outside as possible if a tornado is approaching, and if there is a bathroom in the middle of the house, that’s the place to go. The photo above was taken by one of the storm survey teams from the NWS in Norman,OK today and the young man in the picture

GOES 14 One Minute Imagery of Plains Storms 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-04-27 00:15:54]  recommend  recommend this post  (201 visits) info
The spare GOES 14 weather satellite can send back an image every minute, and it was turned on today to give forecasters a look at the tornado and severe storms developing in the Plains. We will see this imagery more frequently in the future after the launch of the GOES R weather satellite next fall. You can see the imagery at the link below, but you will need a good

GOES 14 One Minute Imagery 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2016-04-27 00:12:26]  recommend  recommend this post  (181 visits) info
The spare GOES 14 weather satellite can send back an image every minute, and it was turned on today to give forecasters a look at the tornado and severe storms developing in the Plains. We will see this imagery more frequently in the future after the launch of the GOES R weather satellite next fall. You can see the imagery at the link below, but you will need a good

Oklahoma is now officially the most dangerous place in the world for earthquakes 

Ontario-geofish [2016-03-28 21:52:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (136 visits) info

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Reference Yes, that's right.  As Susan Hough says: "Holy Crap!" Who knows what the units really mean?  They have totally mucked seismic hazard and risk.  Anyway, this place is due for New Madrid II, within a couple of years.  They live in the dream that they have calmed things down by cutting down the injection, but that was cut down ever since cheap oil.  I can make up plans for a

I’ve Never Seen Hail Like This Before 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2015-11-17 23:49:50]  recommend  recommend this post  (605 visits) info

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Rain drops and hail stones need something to form around, and we refer to this as condensation nuclei. The image below shows something else though. A tornado in the Texas panhandle last night picked up stalks of corn, and lifted them high into the atmosphere, where water froze on it, turning it into a hail stone. The picture was taken by Johnny Goodson of Pampa,Texas. That was one powerful updraft,

April 15, 2015 

Geology.com News [2015-04-15 08:10:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (154 visits) info
Tornado Track in Northern IllinoisNASA Methane Hotspot in the Four Corners RegionNASA Video: Sea Kayakers Caving in TasmaniaCaving News Oil Prices Will Not Rise Much This YearCNBC News Video: Dudley Caving Club at Peak Cavern’s Moss ChamberCavingNews.com T. Rex Cousin Has Battle Scars and Signs of CannibalismBBC Ask Smithsonian: Could the Volcano Beneath Yellowstone National

Fire Tornado in Colorado 

Geology.com News [2014-03-23 12:42:55]  recommend  recommend this post  (92 visits) info

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Several firefighters were doing a controlled burn in Colorado when a fire tornado erupted and stirred hundreds of small tumbleweeds into a swirling

Geological Movie Review of The Day After Tomorrow - Part 4 

The Geology P.A.G.E. [2013-07-08 20:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (90 visits) info
Geological Movie Review of The Day After Tomorrow - Overview- Building Up Storms -- International Space Station -0:15:41 - We have entered the part of the movie where the major global storms start to manifest themselves. Our first view is from space, in what I can only assume is the International Space Station (ISP) since it was the only space station at the time of the movie (2002) (NASA). The figure to the right shows the space station in the movie (on top) versus an image of the [...]

Tornado Over Denver Airport Today 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2013-06-19 06:08:22]  recommend  recommend this post  (98 visits) info
..and from Meteorologist Nate Johnson, the view from the terminal Doppler Radar at DIA. The radar was so close to the tornado you could see the precipitation wrapping around the

I Was Chasing When Chasing Wasn’t Cool 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2013-06-05 02:53:39]  recommend  recommend this post  (85 visits) info
In 1979 I was on the National Severe Storms Lab chase team, and people would actually laugh at us. In those days the idea was to get good quality film of a developing tornado and try to match scientific theory of tornado genesis with fact. The other very important goal was to match real world with radar signatures, especially using the new Doppler radar at NSSL. There were only a

Google Crisis Map — Moore, Oklahoma tornado 

The GeoChristian [2013-05-23 17:14:49]  recommend  recommend this post  (66 visits) info
Google has a crisis map showing the extent and severity of the damage from the May 20, 2013 tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma. This demonstrates the tremendous power not only of the tornado, but also of geospatial technologies.   Grace and Peace Filed under: Geographic Information Systems, Maps, Natural Disasters Tagged: Google, Google Maps, Moore,

How to Survive During a Tornado 

Geology.com News [2013-05-23 14:44:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (67 visits) info
The Center for Disease Control has a collection of tornado resources. One is the instructions for “how to survive a tornado”. Persons who know what to do when an emergency arises have the greatest chance of

Help for Moore, Oklahoma 

Magma Cum Laude [2013-05-22 16:20:15]  recommend  recommend this post  (81 visits) info
The news coverage of the destruction from the tornadoes in Oklahoma is pretty devastating. Rather than watch endless shots of newscasters wandering through the rubble, I've been paying attention to folks in the geoblogosphere who are speaking to the science as well as the disaster - particularly Dan Satterfield over at Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal. He's been doing a fantastic job blogging and tweeting about not only the scientific aspects of the tornado but the situation on the ground. As [...]

The Oklahoma Tornado: Some Facts and Pictures 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2013-05-21 08:36:51]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
First of all, this tornado was not the biggest and strongest tornado ever recorded on Earth, as one Oklahoma City weather-caster said. We don’t know the wind speeds yet, and until then it cannot be given an EF Scale rating. I’ve seen some things (on the video of the damage) that make it clear that this was very likely an EF 4, and I’ve seen one thing that makes me

What makes a tornado? And why does the American Midwest have more than any other area of the world? 

Geology in Motion [2013-05-20 21:23:56]  recommend  recommend this post  (56 visits) info
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Shawnee, Oklahoma tornado, May 19, 2013photo by Brett Wrightfrom http://www.tornadotitans.comThe forecast map posted for May 20, 2013on the tornado chaser's WWW site athttp://www.tornadotitans.comNOTE: Between the time I started this and posted it, the forecast for  storms in the area has gone from "strong severe storms predicted for 5:00" to "isolated thunderstorms." Forecasts from the commercial sites, such as weather.com or wunderground.com vary considerably. Here's the National Weather [...]

Severe tornado outbreak predicted for the weekend; record outbreaks 

Geology in Motion [2012-04-13 19:55:59]  recommend  recommend this post  (84 visits) info
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Storms on Friday, 4/13/2012From weather.comIn a very unusual move, NOAA issued a severe weather/tornado alert two days in advance for this upcoming weekend. I first read of this from Dan's Wild Wild Science Journal on the American Geophysical Union Blogosphere. Dan (Satterfield) is a meteorologist on air who writes a blog for AGU aimed at junior high-school audiences and up. Unfortunately, Joplin, Missouri, so hard-hit just a year ago, is getting pummeled again with severe weather today and [...]

Tornado Outbreak In Oklahoma Saturday? SPC issues rare “High Risk” two days out. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2012-04-13 09:20:37]  recommend  recommend this post  (52 visits) info
High risk outlooks from the Storm prediction Center are rare, but the issuance of one two days out is extremely rare and this evening SPC did just that. The advancements in forecasting over the last 15 years have been amazing and high risk outlooks are bad news for those covered by them. They mean a major outbreak of deadly tornadoes is very possible. Those of you from Oklahoma City to

Marysville, Indiana destroyed by twister. Midwest death toll at 18 and climbing. 

Dan\'s Wild Wild Science Journal [2012-03-03 03:43:08]  recommend  recommend this post  (83 visits) info
The video below is a collection of several different tornadoes from AL to Indiana. As I type this, a tornado is indicated near Marietta GA. Now, compare the number of tornado warnings at any one tie with the situation on April 27, 2011- during the mega outbreak. Daryl Herzmann (a meteorologist in Iowa) who put this together.   My daughter has a friend in Harvest, AL whose home was destroyed on
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