Climate Recalling the 1976 drought: 40 years on 21 June 2016 Remembering the long hot summer of 1976 Climate Alberta's wildfires remain out of control 16 May 2016 Weather Nacreous clouds 03 February 2016 Several rare sightings of nacreous clouds have been reported over the last few days, delighting cloudspotters, with photographs of the clouds coming from England and Scotland. Weather Dark Lightning 15 June 2015 This ‘dark opponent’ discharges from storm clouds and flings antimatter into space. Astrophysicists and meteorologists are now trying to understand what they have termed ‘dark lightning’. Climate El Niño 20 July 2014 The name El Niño, Spanish for ‘child’ or ‘the Christ child’, was first used by fishermen along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru to refer to a warm ocean current that typically appears around Christmastime and lasts for several months Climate Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation 12 April 2014 Weather Ball Lightning 01 August 2013 What is this strange phenomenon? Weather Winter Hazards 18 January 2012 The shortest day may have passed, but although summer is on the way, the coldest months on average are still to come Weather The Red Willow Supercell 28 July 2011 In the early morning hours of June 20, 2011, photographer Stephen Locke documented this incredibly prolific, lightning-producing supercell thunderstorm at Red Willow Lake, Nebraska, USA.
Weather Nacreous clouds 03 February 2016 Several rare sightings of nacreous clouds have been reported over the last few days, delighting cloudspotters, with photographs of the clouds coming from England and Scotland.
Weather Dark Lightning 15 June 2015 This ‘dark opponent’ discharges from storm clouds and flings antimatter into space. Astrophysicists and meteorologists are now trying to understand what they have termed ‘dark lightning’.
Climate El Niño 20 July 2014 The name El Niño, Spanish for ‘child’ or ‘the Christ child’, was first used by fishermen along the coasts of Ecuador and Peru to refer to a warm ocean current that typically appears around Christmastime and lasts for several months
Weather Winter Hazards 18 January 2012 The shortest day may have passed, but although summer is on the way, the coldest months on average are still to come
Weather The Red Willow Supercell 28 July 2011 In the early morning hours of June 20, 2011, photographer Stephen Locke documented this incredibly prolific, lightning-producing supercell thunderstorm at Red Willow Lake, Nebraska, USA.