Here’s some little tidbits about tornados that Geek Slop thought would blow you away…
Category: Meteorology and Weather
Last week’s El Reno, Oklahoma tornado classified as widest tornado in U.S. history
Today the National Weather Service reported that the May 31, 2013 EF-5 tornado that struck El Reno, Oklahoma (25 miles west of Oklahoma City), was the widest tornado on record. Measuring 2.6 miles across, it beat the previous 2.4-mile wide twister that hit Hallam, Nebraska on May 22, 2004. The Friday tornado and its resulting…
Storm Chasers television star, Tim Samaras, killed chasing Oklahoma tornado
We knew that some storm chasers had been killed in Oklahoma last week but were not aware that storied storm chaser, Tim Samaras, one of the highly-respected stars of Discovery Channel’s Storm Chasers television series, was one of the victims of the May 31, 2013 twister. The twister that formed Friday near El Reno, Okla.,…
NASA warns of powerful radioactive solar blast heading directly towards Earth
NASA has warned that a massive, radioactive solar blast is heading towards Earth, screaming in for a direct hit at 900 miles per second. The event, called a coronal mass ejection, or CME, while not occurring as frequently as solar flares, is still common. What is not so common, is for the projected particles to…
New study goes back 11,300 years to chart Earth’s global temperature changes – things just got worse
A new study published by Science reconstructs global temperatures further back than any previous study, going back a whopping 11,300 years to study historic global temperature changes in the Earth’s atmosphere. The most notable study prior to this was Penn State University’s 1999 study which used tree rings to show a massive uptick in temperatures…
Monster storm rages on Saturn inside strange hexagon-shaped cloud system [PICTURES]
On November 27, 2012, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured this amazing image of a monster storm raging at Saturn’s north pole. Viewed from 361,000 kilometers away, the storm’s sinister eye looks quite similar to Earth-based hurricanes leading scientists to surmise that the ringed planet’s storms form in much the same way, with warm, moist air rising…
Hurricane Sandy – Pictures, video, and other news blips regarding the infamous Frankenstorm event
Hurricane Sandy struck the northeast coast on October 29, 2012. Here’s the growing collection of pictures, video, and other interesting tidbits surrounding the infamous “Frankenstorm” event.
New York Subway system sits eerily empty as residents await Hurricane Sandy, aka “Frankenstorm” [PICTURES]
As Hurricane Sandy, aka “Frankenstorm”, approaches the Northeastern shores of the United States, New York City’s Mass Transit Authority closed all their transportation systems, including the infamous New York Subway system, leaving an eerily empty underground world that brings to mind what it would look like during the great apocalypse. Here are pictures of the…
New BIQ house will use microalgae facade to generate energy for the building while also providing dynamic shade
The zero-energy BIQ House in Hamburg, Germany sports a “bio-adaptive façade” that uses microalgae to generate renewable energy and provide shade. Algae in the bio-reactor facades grow faster in the brighter sunlight and hence, create a natural shade when the sun is at its brightest. In addition, the bio-reactors power the building by capturing solar…
6 Italian scientists sentenced to 6 years in prison for failing to predict earthquake that killed 309 people
Six Italian scientists and one ex-government official have just been sentenced to six-years in prison for multiple manslaughter after failing to accurately predict deadly 2009 earthquake. The courts found that the scientists gave falsely reassuring statements after studying tremors that had shaken the Italian city of L’Aquila. The 6.3 magnitude quake killed 309 people.
