As the world continues to heat up the impacts are becoming more obvious. This week a huge sheet of ice has broken away from an ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic. Giant sheets of ice measuring almost seven square miles, which is 20 square kilometres ...

For years man has tried to alter the weather in his favour. There is little doubt that science has the capabilities, but should we really go there? We have been trying to alter the weather for years! American Indians tried to produce rain in times of...

Our planet is under threat from a possible “carbon bomb”. This articles describes what this phenomenon is, its consequences and if it can be stopped The world's wetlands contain approximately 771 billion tons of greenhouse gases, namely carbon ...

These days we can all measure the weather. For some the knowledge that it is cool or warm, wet or dry, windy or still, is enough. However for others it is good to record the weather and know exactly what is going on! There are five basic instruments ...

The first named storm of the hurricane season is trundling west across the Atlantic. Are we in for a big storm season? Currently Bertha is heading slightly north west and is expected to then swing to the north. This will take her into colder waters w...

“Red sky at night, shepherd's delight. Red in the morning, shepherd's warning.” This is probably the most famous of weather folklore and, as is so often the case, has been passed down through generations but has some basis in truth. As the sun sinks ...

In April and May of 1997 the Red River, bordering North Dakota and Minnesota flooded across the Red River valley causing $3.5 Billion worth of damage, making it one of the most expensive natural disasters ever. The winter of 1996-97 was particularly...

This winter (2007-2008) snow fall and snow cover has been at its greatest over North America, Siberia and China since 1966. And the Arctic ice sheet, which for so long has been all but doomed by modern climate models, has had a resurgence. Of course, thi...

It is clear that weather forecasting is only predictable up to a certain point. This is due to the huge number of differing influences that can affect a predictable climate. Topgraphy, sea temperature, wind speed, city heat islands.....these are just some...

Some Violent Winds of the World It is the global air patterns that give rise to the principal wind systems on earth, such as the westerlies, the trade winds and the polar easterlies. These global patterns also influence some of the smaller scale winds ...

The worst storm ever recorded in the UK struck in the 18th century killing thousands and destroying huge amounts of property and uprooting hundreds of thousands of trees. On the night of November 26th, 1703, the "Great Storm" hit southern Britain. By the...

Recent research from the US suggests that the number of Hurricanes and Tropical cyclones experienced in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans will decrease as a result of global warming. At the same time there will be a slight increase in the intensity of these...

Nargis formed into a tropical cyclone on April 27, 2008, in the central Bay of Bengal about 360 miles off of the southeast coast of India. Cyclone Nargis was, when it made landfall around the mouth of the Ayeyawaddy (Irrawaddy) river, about 220 kilometres...

The weight of air resting on a given area of the Earth's surface is known as air pressure. Air pressure (or atmospheric pressure) is always greatest at sea level, where the air is at its most dense. Therefore at the top of a mountain the air is less dense...

Tornado Fact 1. During its 3½ hour life, the 'Tri-State' tornado that passed through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana on March 18th 1925, killed 695 people along its 219 mile path making it Tthe deadliest ever tornado. Tornado Fact 2. Tornadoes are meas...