The number of blizzards that hit the United States has nearly doubled in the last two decades, researchers from Ball State University reported.
climatology
Physical Geography
New Study Discovers the Worst Drought of the Millennium Occurred in 1934
According to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the worst drought of the last thousand years occurred in 1934 at the height of the Dust Bowl and Great Depression. Scientists from NASA and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found that 1934 had the driest and most widespread drought in a […]
Geography 101, Physical Geography
Mass Movements So Large You Can See Them on Radar
Normally used to detect weather patterns, radars used by the National Weather Service have also been known to picked up other patterns. The U.S. National Weather Service in Saint Louse, Missouri recently reported that a butterfly shaped pattern on its radar was the result of… butterflies. The swarm of Monarch butterflies […]
Physical Geography
Help Analyze Hurricanes and Tropical Storms
Crowdsourced science is becoming an increasingly popular tool to harness the power of the crowd in digging into massive amounts of data. For those that are interested in helping to analyze hurricanes and tropical storms, Rob at Zooniverse has put out a call for help: June 1st marked the official beginning […]
Physical Geography
Ancient Pluvial Lakes of North America and What They Can Tell Us about Climate Change
Datasets of paleoenvironmental variability contained in a variety of pluvial lakes is a treasure-trove of past climate which can provide a firm baseline for current debates and studies regarding current hypothesis of present-day climate change.
Physical Geography
Clouds
A brief look at the types of clouds.
Physical Geography
Deadly Cold Across Europe and Russia
This image shows the impact of the cold snap on land surface temperatures across Europe from December 11 to 18, 2009, compared to the 2000-2008 average.