History
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Eleven years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. One of the hardest hit areas was the Mississippi Coast, where Stennis Air Force Base is located. Many NOAA personnel were located there and suffered severe personal losses from the direct hit. Last year they put together a story site which contains information about…
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Harrison Sincavage posted an article at iWeatherNet today about the shocking (to me and other meteorologist friends) statement that the National Hurricane Center put out about the expected impacts of Hurricane Katrina, which was approaching maximum storm intensity in the Gulf of Mexico on this date eleven years ago today. If you’ve never read the warning,…
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The eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia is one of the largest eruptions in recorded history. It is said that the shock wave from the explosive blast went around the earth three times. Most of the people killed by the eruption, over 36,000 people, were killed by the great tsunami that swept through the Indonesian archipelago.…
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The Capital Weather Gang has a great article this week on the impacts of the “Year without a Summer”, which was caused by the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia in 1815. After a year the sulfuric acid droplets in the stratosphere had spread out enough to seriously decrease the sunlight and incoming solar energy,…
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In 1992 on August 24, Hurricane Andrew made landfall just south of downtown Miami as a major hurricane, causing incredible devastation across the south Florida peninsula before it emerged into the Gulf of Mexico on its way to a second landfall in Louisiana. My husband and I visited Miami ten months after Andrew hit and…
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Forbes magazine had an interesting video this week highlighting the history of viewing Earth from space, starting with rocket-based photography in 1946 and continuing through satellites to human space flight to planetary explorers. My major professor as a Master of Science student was Dr. Vernor Suomi, the “father” of satellite meteorology, who recognized the importance of…
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The Washington Post published an interesting article this week on new evidence found to support their legend on the founding of the first dynasty. In a new paper published Thursday in the journal Science, Wu and his colleagues describe geological evidence for a catastrophic flood on the Yellow River in about 1900 B.C. — right around the…