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Dark Sky is an iOS weather app than can give you minute by minute weather

With your average weather app for your phone, you get daily or hourly predictions for your location, and that’s cool and all, but if you really want an even more fined-tuned sense of the weather, Dark Sky is an app that will tell when your weather is going to change down to the minute.

posted 13 November, 2012
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Hurricane Sandy is officially the largest tropical cyclone on record. Here’s what she looks like, ready to flood the shit out of most of the east coast of America.

So if you’re in DC, Virginia, the northeast, New England or southeastern Canada, what are you doing to get ready? Also, please submit some pics.

posted 28 October, 2012
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Morning weather: John is expanding

In my pants.

The Weather Channel will be naming the big winter storms this year, but we can do better

Not wanting hurricanes to get all the fun, The Weather Channel has decided this year that they’re going to name the major winter storms in the US. They’re using an interesting mix of names from Greco-Roman culture and… Star Trek. Okay, they’re just waiting til “Khan”, so the internet will go crazy, so whatever. And Gandolf [sic] from Tolkien. That can stay. But what are some other good names for winter storms? Why Greco-Roman? Why not Norse? I SURVIVED MJOLNIR 2012. Yessssss.

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posted 03 October, 2012
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NASA discovers carbon dioxide snow on Mars

While Mars is fairly similar to Earth in some ways, its position slightly further out from the Sun makes it quite a bit colder. Cold enough that the polar caps are made of frozen carbon dioxide, cold enough that that frozen carbon dioxide even turns into snow. That’s fucking coooold.

posted 17 September, 2012
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How the University of Miami is learning to create hurricanes in a giant aquarium

While meteorology has advanced quite a bit in the past few decades, we still have a lot to learn about the exact nature of hurricanes— how exactly they form, how they travel and how we can mitigate property damage and the loss of human life. At the University of Miami in Florida, scientists are learning about hurricanes by creating mini hurricanes in a gigantic aquarium.

posted 03 September, 2012
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Hurricane Isaac looks pretty spectacular from space

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NASA creates a map of lightning strikes across the globe

There’s that saying that lightning never strikes twice in the same place, a saying that as an adult, you should know is bullshit. And according to this new map from NASA, there are several places on the planet where lightning does strike in the same place quite a lot.

How the Bering land bridge nearly wrecked Earth’s climate

Around 80,000 years ago, sea levels dropped just enough to uncover the land Bering land bridge between what is now Russia and Alaska. For the Siberian nomads who would come to populate the Americas, the land bridge was essential. But if it had lasted any longer than it did, it might have totally wrecked Earth’s climate as we know it.

Wind map of the US just might blow you away

Created by a pair of Google computer scientists, this project, simply called Wind Map, creates a gorgeous visualization of wind patterns across the continental US. Of course, the image above isn’t the only wind map, since as you may have noticed, wind doesn’t stay in one place for very long.

Awesome photo of a dust devil on Mars. A Marsnado if you will.

A towering dust devil casts a serpentine shadow over the Martian surface in this stunning, late springtime image of Amazonis Planitia. The length of the shadow indicates that the dust plume reaches more than 800 meters, or half a mile, in height. The tail of the plume does not trace the path of the dust devil, which had been following a steady course towards the southeast and left a bright track behind it. The delicate arc in the plume was produced by a westerly breeze at about a 250-meter height that blew the top of the plume towards the east. The westerly winds and the draw of warmth to the south combine to guide dust devils along southeast trending paths, as indicated by the tracks of many previous dust-devils. The dust plume itself is about 30 meters in diameter.

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So what’s up with this year’s almost complete lack of winter?

Record temperatures across North America and Europe, record low snowfall, flowers and birds thinking it’s spring instead of the dead of winter… what the hell’s going on? Is this global warming? Not exactly… this year’s near-complete lack of winter, especially compared to last year, seems to be mostly due to La Niña, keeping the jet stream pushed way north.

posted 13 January, 2012
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Dark Sky is an iOS weather app than can give you minute by minute weather

The Weather Channel will be naming the big winter storms this year, but we can do better

NASA discovers carbon dioxide snow on Mars

How the University of Miami is learning to create hurricanes in a giant aquarium

NASA creates a map of lightning strikes across the globe

How the Bering land bridge nearly wrecked Earth’s climate

Wind map of the US just might blow you away

So what’s up with this year’s almost complete lack of winter?

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