January 5, 2012
Storms brewing over volcanoes
Two hundred years ago, a sea captain was sailing in the Azores, a Portuguese archipelago in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, when he observed …
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January 5, 2012
Larger raindrops may make tornadoes more likely
A huge thunderstorm was gathering above central Oklahoma on May 20, 1977. As the storm intensified, a tornado began to form and struck the …
January 5, 2012
Cityscape, 'wet regions' fueled Atlanta tornado
On March 14, 2008, at 9:38 p.m., something happened in Atlanta that had never happened in the city’s 171-year history: A tornado ripped through a …
January 5, 2012
Blogging on EARTH: First dispatches from EGU
EARTH’s Carolyn Gramling is taking in the European Geophysical Union meeting this week in Vienna, Austria. Here are some of the sessions that …