Meteorology News Archives

Sure, this year's Atlantic hurricane season has been slow with eight named storms, just two hurricanes and about $100,000 in damages to U.S. property.

President Obama has signed the final versions of the fiscal 2010 Energy and Water Appropriations Act and the fiscal 2010 Homeland Security Appropriations Act, thus approving more than $1 million in federal funding for several Louisville projects requested by Rep.

Meteorology is like the main character in The Perfect Storm. Which makes sense on The Weather Channel - but as the network will soon find out, climate-centric movies aren't exactly a well-stocked cinematic genre.

Typhoon Mirinae, the fourth cyclone to wallop the Philippines in a month, was barreling toward the capital of Manila, where some districts are still submerged by recent massive flooding, forecasters said Friday.

A severe grassland fire danger warning has been issued for two southwest Queensland districts.

Agartala/The southwest monsoon has withdrawn from the northeastern region, which has suffered a 20 percent rainfall deficit this season, India Meteorology Department director Dilip Saha said Friday.

Friday was one of those nice fall days -- clear and sunny, with a cloud or two poking around the sky.

Scientists say a crater in Latvia initially thought to have been caused by a meteorite was really a hoax.

A meteorite-like object crashed into a meadow in northern Latvia, creating a crater 27 feet wide and 9 feet deep, a geologist who visited the site said Monday.

Rain is expected to ease over Sydney today following a 24-hour downpour that delivered parts of the city their biggest falls in a year.

The fire has burnt about 600 hectares of bushland in the Red Ridge Fire Trail area, 10km south of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains National Park.

Clocks in Bulgaria change to winter time at 4am on October 25 2009, going back an hour to 3am.

With not a spit of rain forecast this weekend and a contingent of NSW fire crews sent back home, central Queensland firefighters can only hope for a reprieve on Monday.

Exhausted firefighters in central Queensland can expect no respite from the weather, despite earlier forecasts suggesting rain could be on the way.

United Arab Emirates: 37 minutes ago The National Emergency and Crisis Management Authority today announced that the second annual 'Crisis and Emergency Management Conference' will be held on January 11-13, 2010.

The Bureau of Meteorology running 14 cost and efficiency projects including virtualisation, printer, application server and helpdesk consolidation; and an improved SOE rollout The Bureau of Meteorology has reported that it is well on the way toward implementing the recommendations of the Gershon Review with around 14 initiatives underway designed ...

Hurricane Rick weakened on Monday to a category one storm on the five-category Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, after one death was reported Sunday at Los Cabos tourist resort in Mexico .

But some say it will create more confusion than helping residents in high-risk areas.

People are seen silhouetted against the Atlantic Ocean, in Florida. The Pacific's El Nino ocean-warming phenomenon has resulted in an especially calm Atlantic hurricane season -- a welcome respite for Caribbean and southeastern US residents still smarting from a 2008 pounding.

Reed Timmer's goal for the third season of Discovery Channel's popular series "Storm Chasers" was to get inside a tornado.

Eve Gruntfest, an internationally recognized authority on implementing flash-flood warning systems, will present the 11th Annual Lovell Distinguished Lecture at Texas State University-San Marcos Monday, Oct.

A weatherman. That's what Robert Altman might have become had he pursued meteorology, an early interest in life.

The father of the Colorado boy thought to have flown away in a homemade helium aircraft Thursday afternoon studies extreme weather and is intensely interested in extraterrestrials, according to media reports.

I asked Dr. Mel how he likes the weather. "I always love the weather," he said. And well he should.

MUCH of Queensland will remain on very high alert for fires on Thursday, despite easing conditions.

MapSpace! 10/14/2009 8:34 AM The month of October marks the official end of the rain-giving Southwest, or Summer, Monsoon on the Indian Subcontinent.

An El Nino weather event is still developing across the Pacific but its impacts are likely to be more variable than past El Nino events, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology said on Tuesday.

Brisbane and neighbouring regions can expect a dust haze on Wednesday rather than the dust storms that have affected the southwest of the state, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

While there weren't the billowing clouds that turned Sydney red last month , a front overnight brought a smattering of dirt from inland Australia to the Harbour City.

For the first time, Victorians will now be urged to evacuate their homes on ''catastrophic fire risk'' days.

THE Bureau of Meteorology has issued a tsunami watch for the offshore waters of North Queensland.

Bursts of sudden rainfall - like the 600-per-cent-higher rain that caused deadly floods in southern India - have gone up by 10 to 15 per cent across India, and it is affecting what millions of farmers are growing.

Listen closely and you just might hear a pin dropping into the ocean. That's how quiet this hurricane season has been in the Atlantic.

SLU sophomore David Koeller stands in front of SLU-TV's green-screen, ready to spread word of the weather.

Ensuring Precision: Air-Vice Marshal Ajit Tyagi, Director General of Meteorology, New Delhi with S.R. Ramanan, Director, RMC, Chennai, at the commissioning of High Performance Computing System in Chennai on Thursday.

Kevin Myatt grew up in Arkansas to the tune of tornado sirens and the rhythm of hailstones, aspiring to be a meteorologist before his studies and career were turned to journalism instead.

A super cyclone was bearing down rapidly on Bangladesh's southwest coastline, ripping off tin roofs from houses and uprooting trees, as tens of thousands of mainlanders were evacuated to shelters.

Research has made little or no progress on this issue. Two scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg and the American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration report in the journal Nature that the interaction between aerosols, clouds and precipitation is strongly dependent on factors that have not been adequately ...

Central Floridians sitting in dark, hot houses trying to watch the Olympics on 4-inch, battery-powered televisions can't even take solace that they're helping to prevent the next devastating hurricane.

Sydney has had a much needed soaking, with more rain falling over the weekend than during the whole of August and September combined, finally flushing away any remnants of last month's dust storms.

VICTORIANS have been warned to brace for a springtime cold snap, with freak conditions to bring rain and snow.

Two Japanese tourists were severely dehydrated, exhausted and suffering from hypothermia after spending more than 12 hours lost in freezing bushland west of Sydney, NSW Ambulance says.

Posted 1 hour, 20 minutes ago at 1:14 am. Like those guys that sell football picks on early morning infomercials, TV weathermen pretend to be impossibly accurate while in reality they're making little more than an educated guess.

The weather bureau says Queensland is in for a long fire season and could face severe thunderstorms as the monsoon season kicks off.

A major 6.8-magnitude earthquake has struck Indonesia's Sumatra island on Thursday southeast of the site of an earlier powerful quake that left more than 1,000 feared dead, geologists said.

When a gigantic dust storm hit the eastern seaboard of the great southern continent of Australia, the sun was totally obscured.

Officials hoist coffins containing the bodies of several victims in Kampong Thom, which felt the full force of Typhoon Ketsana when it hit Tuesday night.