The Watchers - News Update (7 new articles) |
- Snowball Earth events linked to drastic drop in Sun's radiation
- Nearly 2 500 people evacuate as record rainfall hits northern Japan, triggering floods and landslides
- Mumbai records wettest July since records began, India
- Reed Timmer records roar of Hurricane "Hanna" eyewall
- Slow-moving meteor over southern Spain
- 119 dead, 4 million affected as Bangladesh remains in grip of severe flooding
- Norway records coldest summer in nearly 60 years
Snowball Earth events linked to drastic drop in Sun's radiation Posted: 29 Jul 2020 01:11 PM PDT Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggest that Snowball Earth-- a hypothesis proposing that the planet's surface became entirely frozen at least twice 700 million years ago-- might be linked to dramatic plunges in the amount of...... Read more » |
Posted: 29 Jul 2020 10:17 AM PDT Almost 2 500 people have been evacuated as record-high rainfall poured over northern Japan into Wednesday, July 29, 2020, causing damaging floods and landslides, including in the Yamagata Prefecture, where the Mogami River burst its banks and a mudslide left 540...... Read more » |
Mumbai records wettest July since records began, India Posted: 29 Jul 2020 08:29 AM PDT With 1 474.4 mm (58 inches) of rain recorded between July 1 to 28, India's state of Maharashtra capital Mumbai saw the city's highest rainfall for this month in 76 years. The previous record was set in 2014 with 1 468.5 mm (57.8 inches) of rain. On Tuesday,...... Read more » |
Reed Timmer records roar of Hurricane "Hanna" eyewall Posted: 29 Jul 2020 07:05 AM PDT Category 1 Hurricane "Hanna" made landfall on Padre Island, Texas, at around 22:00 UTC on July 25, 2020, as the first rapidly-intensifying named storm of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. As it made landfall, extreme meteorologist Reed Timmer was in Port...... Read more » |
Slow-moving meteor over southern Spain Posted: 29 Jul 2020 05:42 AM PDT This stunning meteor overflew the south of Spain at about 00:31 UTC on July 29, 2020 (02:31 local time), and was recorded in the framework of the SMART project, which is being conducted by the Southwestern Europe Meteor Network (SWEMN). The meteoroid hit the...... Read more » |
119 dead, 4 million affected as Bangladesh remains in grip of severe flooding Posted: 29 Jul 2020 04:50 AM PDT Widespread flooding situation continues to worsen in Bangladesh, affecting more than 4.8 million people and claiming at least 119 lives, officials reported Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC) warned that major rivers in the...... Read more » |
Norway records coldest summer in nearly 60 years Posted: 28 Jul 2020 05:36 PM PDT Residents in Norway have been reeling from the country's coldest summer in nearly 30 to 60 years. Early in July, more than 10 m (32 feet) of snow accumulated in parts of the southern region, which was unprecedented for this time of the year. According to state...... Read more » |
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