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5 May 2010
Jeremy Jackson- How We Wrecked The Oceans
This TED talk by coral reef expert Jeremy Jackson is a must watch state of the oceans. With the oil spill in the Gulf making news, it’s especially apropos.
4 May 2010
Oil and Water From Space
NASA’s AQUA satellite made a pass over Nashville and the Gulf at 1850GMT today. (1:50pm Central U.S. summer time). The flooded rivers around Nashville are clearly evident in the image (see below). Nashville is at the center of the image. Accurate rain gauges from Central Tennessee show a rain event of incredible proportions. Areas around Nashville had over 17 inches of rain in 24 hours. This is more than one …
2 May 2010
Amazing Flood Event In Tennessee. Climate Related??
Mobile homes floating down I-24 in Tennessee on Saturday. That is something you don’t see every day. It was an amazing and tragic event. Five deaths and many people are homeless and many more have flooded homes and businesses. This was a lot more than a 100 year flood. Nashville weather records go back over 120 years and there has been nothing like this before. (Update: Chris Darden of the …
1 May 2010
Arkansas Tornados, Nashville Floods and Oil Slick Growing
Tornadoes hit Arkansas last night and today and have also done damage in Miss. and Tennessee. Incredible rainfall totals of near or over 10 inches have ben reported across a wide swath of Tennessee. I just saw a recent report of a destroyed mobile home seen FLOATING down I-24 near Nashville. A pass by one of NASA’s MODIS satellites at 11:40am (1640GMT) shows the oil slick in the Gulf has …
30 April 2010
New Satellite Image Shows Oil Poised to Hit Coast over Wide Area
The offshore weather buoys are now indicating winds of 20 knots sustained from the south. This will mix the oil some but also push it toward shore. More soon.
29 April 2010
Oil Spill Is Worse and Here Comes The Wind..
Late word on Wednesday night that the oil slick in the Gulf is being fed by a leak that is 5 times bigger than first estimated. At 5,000 feet deep it is going to be very difficult to stop it. The normal current flow in the Gulf this time of year will likely push the oil toward the northeast. The winds have been very light over the area for the …
29 October 2009
Why The Vanishing Polar Ice Cap Will Impact You
The folks at the National Snow and Ice Data Center have released some new data on the polar ice as we head into late autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. The ice pack is retreating at a rate of about 11.2% per decade, and Dr. Mark Serezze, the director of the NSIDC says that we are just a few decades away from a mostly ice free August in the Arctic Ocean. …
15 October 2009
California Mud- It's just getting Started
This past week has brought some serious flooding to California. This could not come at a worse time with so many hills and mountains denuded of ground cover by the Summer fires. No ground cover means nothing to hold the soaked soil in place, and it will take even less rain than normal to start the famous mud slide season. Here in my part of the world, it’s almost as …
19 September 2009
Climate Change in a 10 Second Movie
August2009-ClimateAnom The data for the Summer of 2009 is in from NASA and NOAA. Just when I think the news has to get better on climate change, it gets worse. Surely some of the predictions will turn out to be too warm and some will turn out to be too cool. Unfortunately, the predictions all keep turning out to be too low. The planet is warming faster, and the ice …
16 September 2009
If a Picture Paints A Thousand Words- Then Look at 3
NASA GISS has the Summer global temp. data online now. August 2009 was the Second warmest on record globally. The Northern Hemisphere meteorological summer of 2009 was the third warmest on record. Only 1998 was warmer. The reason 1998 was so warm is easily explained. The Pacific ocean was incredibly warm that year. The reason? The greatest El Nino event on record. That much warm water heated the surface temperature of …
Dan Satterfield has worked as an on air meteorologist for 32 years in Oklahoma, Florida and Alabama. Forecasting weather is Dan's job, but all of Earth Science is his passion. This journal is where Dan writes about things he has too little time for on air. Dan blogs about peer-reviewed Earth science for Junior High level audiences and up.