The UK’s economy suffered a shock contraction of 0.5% in the last three months of 2010, figures have shown. The severe weather hit activity in the quarter, but the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said even if the weather impact had been excluded, activity would have been “flattish”.
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Minimum temperature dips in Kashmir Valley, Ladakh
January 10th, 2011 |
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A cold wave continued to lash the valley and the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir as minimum temperatures dipped further Monday. “The minimum temperature in summer capital Srinagar was minus 2.2 degrees Celsius. It was minus 20.2 in Leh and minus 15.8 degrees in Kargil town of Ladakh division Monday,” said R.L. Pandita, assistant [...]
Humans Have Intentionally Modified Weather for Military Purposes and Climate Control for Decades
January 4th, 2011 |
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Weather modification is a well-known endeavor. For example, governments have been seeding clouds for decades to create more rain.And during warfare to create mud to slow the enemy’s ability to use roads.As the Guardian reported in 2001:During the Viet…
A winter’s tale
December 17th, 2010 |
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Sitting here in wintry Britain as the country braces itself for yet another weekend onslaught of heavy snow, it comes as small comfort to know other countries are experiencing similar challenges.
We Brits love a weather story – and equally love to bash our government for its total lack of preparedness/grit/salt/snowploughs – take your pick.
You can’t move at the moment for TV and newspaper stories of people being stranded in their homes as 1cm of snow ‘drifts’ against the kerb, while reporters are dispatched to bravely stand by freezing roads and denounce the government of the day’s woeful lack of planning.
Never mind the fact that normally the UK is a temperate climate more used to grey, damp days than an Arctic blasts, but nonetheless it gives us a good excuse for a weather moan.
But what’s this? Last week saw airports in Germany – of all places – reportedly disrupted due to lack of de-icer, while their French counterparts have more than 500 people on stand-by to deal with exceptional winter weather this weekend.
In the auto world, even Michigan and South Canada – two places where our weather in the UK would probably merit no more than putting on a jumper – have succumbed to scenes normally reminiscent of those closer to here.
Ford and GM reported supply problems as the mercury dived to -13C – or 9F in old money – and Canada’s emergency services were mobilised to rescue stranded drivers.
Just-in-time operations will inevitably come under greater strain when the temperature falls, but it was surprising to see so much disruption in areas that are so used to weather.
Britain is an island in the North Sea, it’s not Florida, so we’ll get weather, albeit usually wet and mild. South Canada, well that’s another story.
Heidi Jones, “Good Morning America†Weather Girl, Lied About Central Park Rape
December 15th, 2010 |
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Talk About Warm Fronts! One of the Big Apple’s most popular Weather Girls has found herself in a pickle after blitzing cops with the ultimate snow job. The WABC-TV meteorologist is facing misdemeanor charges for filing a false police report after she lied about almost being raped. On Monday, Jones, who anchors the station’s weekend [...]
Weather Investments interested in Telekom
December 2nd, 2010 |
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The Weather Investments telecommunications company, registered in Italy, is interested in acquiring Telekom Srbija, Serbian government sources told Beta. According to the sources, Weather Investments wishes to participate in the tender for the acquisition of 51 percent of the Serbian state-owned telecommunications comany shares but, before that, the commission that is carrying out the tender procedure has to grant them permission to buy the documents required for participation in the procedure.
Discovery Shuttle Mission Awaits Good Weather
November 4th, 2010 |
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Space shuttle Discovery’s final mission has been delayed because of storms, but mission controllers hope for a Friday launch. – Space shuttle Discovery has encountered yet another obstacle
on the way to its final mission: storms.
Inclement weather led NASAs mission controllers to scrub
Discoverys Nov. 4 launch. “If it looked like there was any possible chance of
giving it a shot, then I think we would have,” Pete Nickole…
10 Hottest Weather Girls Ever
October 7th, 2010 |
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Weather Girls. You’ve gotta love em. Rain or shine, they’re always radiant – and how is it they manage to make pointing out whatever weather’s headed our way so goddamn sexy? A gesture here, a sweep of the hand there, and they may as well be beckoning drooling male viewers quietly to the boudoir. It [...]
15 Cases of Bizarre and Mysterious Weather
September 22nd, 2010 |
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Weird, unexplained weather systems have been wreaking havoc on mankind since day one, and most were a lot worse than mere chunks of ice falling from the sky. Don’t believe it? Well, feast your eyes on some of the most mysterious cases of weather ever.
Bacteria and Phytoplankton Affect the Weather
August 17th, 2010 |
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It turns out that critters so small that they can’t be seen with the naked eye might affect the weather, and perhaps even climate.As I pointed out last year, spacefaring bacteria might affect rainfall:In 2002, several scientists claimed that bacteria …
Google Earth 5.2 Gets Real-Time Weather Layer
August 2nd, 2010 |
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Google has added a layer in Google Earth 5.2 that will help travelers plan their trips or see what the weather is like around the world. The app now offers images of rain and snow over areas as the conditions are occurring. – Google said it has added a real-time weather layer for Google
Earth to help travelers
plan their trips or see what the weather is like around the world.
Downloaded by more than 700 million people around the
world, Google Earth is a free desktop application that lets users search for
satellite …
The Dead Weather: “Blue Blood Blues” Live Video
June 28th, 2010 |
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SHAKE YOUR HIPS LIKE BATTLESHIPS!
The Dead Weather premiered their new video of a live take of “Blue Blood Blues” from their primo second album Sea of Cowards on TeamCoco.com last Friday. Here tis’.
The band kicks off a new tour on July 13th in Washington, DC and then travels nationwide before the tour finale at Prospect Park in Brooklyn.
The Dead Weather Tour Dates
07-13 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
07-14 Boston, MA – House of Blues
07-15 Toronto, Ontario – Sound Academy
07-17 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
07-19 San Diego, CA – House of Blues
07-21 Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Palladium
07-22 San Francisco, CA – Warfield Theatre
07-24 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom
07-25 Seattle, WA – Capitol Hill Block Party
07-26 Billings, MT – Babcock Theatre
07-28 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
07-29 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
07-30 Chicago, IL – The Congress Theater
07-31 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore
08-02 Baltimore, MD – Ram’s Head Live!
08-03 Brooklyn, NY – Prospect Park
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March 30, 1848: Niagara Falls Runs Dry
March 30th, 2010 |
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1848: Niagara Falls stops. No water flows over the great cataract for 30 or 40 hours. People freak out.
The falls were already a tourist attraction by 1848, and villages had grown up on both the U.S. and Canadian sides of the river to accommodate the sightseeing throngs. Residents also built waterwheels to harness the Niagara [...]
The Dead Weather New Album:Sea of Cowards Out 05/11
March 27th, 2010 |
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THE DEAD WEATHER ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM
SEA OF COWARDS TO BE RELEASED ON THIRD MAN/WARNER BROS. RECORDS ON MAY 11,
2010
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The Dead
Weather are back. The Nashville-based four-piece have announced plans for the release of their sophomore
album Sea Of Cowards. The band exploded onto the music scene early last year with a stunning
debut that combined the furious talents of members Alison Mosshart (vocals/ guitar), Jack White
(vocals/drums), Jack Lawrence (bass/drums) and Dean Fertita (guitar/organ). Horehound was an exhilarating and electrifying introduction to the band, a gritty blues-driven dirge rock
masterpiece that stormed onto the Billboard Top 200 at #6 upon its release in July of 2009. Now, less than a year later, the follow-up is ready to be unleashed.
The Dead Weather first declared their existence in March of last year with a blistering kick-off performance at the
brand new Third Man Records HQ in downtown Nashville. Within weeks they were selling out shows
around the country and debut single “Hang You From The Heavens” was making a glorious racket at radio. The
following 12 months were a whirlwind of breathtaking performances, magazine covers and TV appearances but,
staying true to his reputation as one of music’s most energetic and prolific talents, Jack White didn’t even wait for
the Horehound world tour to end before he led the band back into the Third Man studios to produce
Sea Of
Cowards.
The new album is a robust and vigorous second act, filled with primal, bone quaking rock rhythms and the same
stellar urban blues and throbbing sleaze as its predecessor; but this time The Dead Weather push their sound even
further, brilliantly building upon their raw chemistry to create the most vital sounding album you’ll hear all year.
Sea Of Cowards will be released on Third Man /Warner Bros. Records on May 11, 2010. The first single “Die By The Drop,” is an agitated brain worm of a duet between Mosshart and White and will be available digitally March 30. Pre-orders for the 7″ of the single can be made on March 30 via Third Man Records – backed by the track “Old
Mary,” it will be released on April 6. Also available on April 6 will be the Floria Sigismondi-directed video for “Die By The Drop,” which is premiering in North America on iTunes.
The band have a floor shaking run of dates scheduled for April and May, including a stop at this year’s Coachella Festival.
Track list for Sea Of Cowards:
Some previous praise for The Dead Weather:
“…an excellent album of sex sweat, bourbon breath, gun smoke and guitar sleaze…these are all top-notch
songs…what a lovely way to burn.” -Rolling Stone
“There’s no joke here — just mountains of chest-rattling primal rock designed to reassert the elemental power of
the four-piece rock group. Mission accomplished.” -Los Angeles Times
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NASA Launches Advanced Weather Satellite
March 6th, 2010 |
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NASA launches its latest Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. The GOES-P is one of a series of meteorological satellites designed to watch for storm development and weather conditions on Earth. From its location in Earth orbit, GOES-P’s state-of-the-art instrumentation will supply the government with data used in weather monitoring, forecasting and warnings.
– Whatever the fate of NASA’s manned spaceflight program, the
space agency’s weather satellite program is continuing unabated.
NASA’s latest launch was March 4 when the GOES-P (Geostationary Operational
Environmental Satellite) rode a Delta IV rocket into space. The GOES-P is
quot;the latest in…
Weather forecasting: Flaky science
March 4th, 2010 |
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How to predict the consistency of snow
“THE wrong type of snow” became famous as a lame excuse in Britain in February 1991 when, caught out by a cold snap, British Rail blamed severe disruption to its services on problems clearing unusually soft and powdery snow from its tracks. But British Rail had a point. There are, indeed, different types of snow—and people who live in mountainous areas, or visit to ski, like to know which ones to expect. Forecasting what sort of snow will fall is not easy. But a pair of researchers at the University of Utah think they have cracked the problem.
Jim Steenburgh and Trevor Alcott carried out their research in the Alta ski area, which is about 3,000 metres (10,000 feet) up in the Wasatch range. Good record-keeping at the resort, including precipitation measurements that are taken automatically every hour, allowed them to analyse 457 snowfalls that took place between 1999 and 2007. …
Feb. 9, 1870: Feds Get on Top of the Weather
February 9th, 2010 |
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1870: President Ulysses S. Grant signs a bill creating what we now call the National Weather Service. Forecasting models were simple but generally effective.
It had been obvious for centuries that weather in North America generally moves from west to east, or southwest to northeast. But other than looking upwind, that knowledge was little help in [...]
Lightning Reveals Its Power in Slow Motion
February 9th, 2010 |
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Tom Warner documents the powerful beauty of lightning with an array of optical and electromagnetic sensors. He often uses a Vision Research ‘Phantom’ high-speed camera.
Warner is a Ph.D student at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, in Rapid City. He studies atmospheric sciences with a specialty in [...]
The Dead Weather: Spring Dates
February 2nd, 2010 |
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THE DEAD WEATHER ANNOUNCE SPRING U.S. TOUR DATES
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The Dead Weather has announced a 13-city Spring jaunt that includes appearances at Coachella and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Tickets are available now for subscribers to The Vault, Third Man Records’ groundbreaking online subscription service, and available to the general public starting Friday, February 5.
The dirge rock four-piece, consisting of celebrated musicians Dean Fertita (Queens of The Stone Age), “Little” Jack Lawrence (The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Alison Mosshart (The Kills) and Jack White (The White Stripes, The Raconteurs), have traveled the world over since their debut Horehound was released in the summer of 2009 – leaving in their wake storms of fans enthralled by the bluesy rock quartet’s gritty rhythm and incessant energy.
This newest series of dates follows the band’s first-ever Australian tour.
The Dead Weather Tour Dates
03/17/10 Wed Logan Campbell Center Aukland, NZ
03/19/10 Fri The Forum Theatre Melbourne, AU
03/20/10 Sat The Forum Theatre Melbourne, AU
03/23/10 Tue Tivoli Theatre Brisbane, AU
03/26/10 Fri Enmore Theatre Sydney, AU
03/29/10 Mon Metro City Perth, AU
03/31/10 Wed Zepp Tokyo Tokyo, JP
04/15/10 Thu The Fillmore San Francisco, CA
04/17/10 Sat Coachella Music Festival (Empire Polo Grounds) Indio, CA
04/18/10 Sun Pearl Concert Theater Las Vegas, NV
04/20/10 Tue Sunshine Theater Albuquerque, NM
04/22/10 Thu Cain’s Ballroom Tulsa, OK
04/23/10 Fri Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone Bonner Springs, KS
04/24/10 Sat The Pageant St. Louis, MO
04/26/10 Mon House of Blues Orlando, FL
04/27/10 Tue WorkPlay Birmingham, AL
04/28/10 Wed Minglewood Hall Memphis, TN
04/30/10 Fri Stubb’s BBQ Austin, TX
05/01/10 Sat House of Blues Houston, TX
05/02/10 Sun New Orleans Fairgrounds New Orleans, LA