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The current state of El Nino 

For those of us near the poles, all of our 'weather' comes from the equator in the form of plumes.  These are generated by N-S ocean currents which are deflected up by land masses.  Without any land (Waterworld!), our air currents would look like Jupiter, without the red spot. We'd still have seasons and maybe a little water, but the weather would be boring. This is wet air.

Why Meteorologists Don’t Go By The Same Seasons You Do 

To most folks today marks the first full day of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, but to we meteorologists, it’s been winter since the first of December. NOAA’s National Climate center has written a nice piece today on why we do it that way. Click the image below to read it, and you will see that it makes a lot of sense.   It may not feel like winter int

Fashionable remain in the Central Air Heat 

  Indonesia only has two seasons, the rainy season and dry season. You are so much easier to collect items that could be used to fashion in two seasons, or choose a suitable collection just for one season. Shhhh .. but why in fact guns are also many who know how to choose suitable clothes […] The post Fashionable remain in the Central Air Heat appeared first on Liberty, Equality, and

Glad You Asked: October 23, 2014 

Cooler weather is on its way, so we’ve got a cool “Glad You Asked” article to compliment the changing seasons! It’s a beautiful time of the year to get out into Utah’s geology. Maybe some of you have noticed these groovy rocks out on your outdoor adventures. What are those grooves in the rocks, and

Lithostratigraphy and biostratigraphy of the Chinle Formation in Lisbon Valley, Utah 

The stratigraphy of the Chinle Formation in Lisbon Valley, Utah has been somewhat controversial. This paper is the result of several seasons of fieldwork and provides an intense revision of the local stratigraphy as well as discussion of the fossils found in these rocks. Martz et al. provide a large amount of information and are careful to make sure that their work is repeatable as possible.

Seasons: the effect of our tilted Earth 

The new ELI, published today, 'Seasons: the effect of our tilted Earth' is the last in this 'Earth in space' series. It involves an indoor demonstration which explains the changing seasons very clearly. After watching the activity pupils will be able to:- explain how the half of the Earth bathed in sunlight at any one time is experiencing day, whilst the other half is experiencing

How do day/night and the seasons work? 

New ELI today - 'Earth on Earth; using a globe in the sunshine to show how day/night and the seasons work'.  Pupils can use the ‘globe in the sunshine’ to: explain how the half of the Earth bathed in sunlight at any one time is experiencing day, whilst the other half is experiencing night;  point out and explain the day/night dividing lines of dawn and dusk;  show how equatorial regions

Here is a short summary of what our Paleontologists have been up to! 

The Utah Geological Survey’s paleontology program has just complete a month of excavation at our Doelling’s Bowl dinosaur site in eastern Utah. This site is in the early Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation. The previous 3 seasons were spent excavating a sauropod (long-necked) dinosaur skeleton from an animal that had become mired in mud. While excavating

August is the New July 

It is said that Canada has two seasons - Winter and July.  That now changes to Winter, and maybe a few days in August.  Yesterday actually looked like Summer for a while, and then Old Man Vortex came whistling

Kepler Fins a Very Wobbly Planet 

“Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know whether to wear Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat. [...] The planet, designated Kepler-413b, precesses, or wobbles, wildly on its spin axis, much like a child’s top. The tilt of the planet’s spin axis can vary by as much as 30 degrees

Did Metoposaurus Aestivate in the Carnian Triassic of Poland? 

(image source) Krasiejów, Poland was a vastly different place 230 million years ago during the Triassic Period. It was part of a giant continent called Pangea, had a warm climate throughout the year, and was populated by giant amphibians that weighed half a ton and were 10 feet long. Metoposaurus diagnosticus was one of these giant amphibians, and its environment had only two

Cottage Report - Frickin' Freezin' 

Canada has returned to its classic 2 seasons - Winter and one week in July.  That week is over folks, and I'm sitting up here on the deck looking at whitecaps.  All the fish have gone, too -- blah.   Could you all just breathe a little harder? I came up to do more work on the deck.  It has some rotten sections that need to be dug out and replaced.  Since I have my sore back, and I'm basically

Enigma 5 resolved : Adopt a buoy 

To anticipate the travel of a drifting buoy is not an easy thing !. We can look after the currents known in the area where the JOIDES is stationary : In this part of the Pacific East, in the northern hemisphere, there are three main currents whose position and intensity vary with the seasons:  read

Enigma 5 resolved : Adopt a buoy 

To anticipate the travel of a drifting buoy is not an easy thing !. We can look after the currents known in the area where the JOIDES is stationary : In this part of the Pacific East, in the northern hemisphere, there are three main currents whose position and intensity vary with the seasons:  read

Enigma 5 resolved : Adopt a buoy 

To anticipate the travel of a drifting buoy is not an easy thing !. We can look after the currents known in the area where the JOIDES is stationary : In this part of the Pacific East, in the northern hemisphere, there are three main currents whose position and intensity vary with the seasons:  read

Enigma 5 resolved : Adopt a buoy 

To anticipate the travel of a drifting buoy is not an easy thing !. We can look after the currents known in the area where the JOIDES is stationary : In this part of the Pacific East, in the northern hemisphere, there are three main currents whose position and intensity vary with the seasons:  read