Lightning researchers work to improve hurricane forecasts
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- Lightning researchers work to improve hurricane forecasts
- live Branch Cleans Up After Tornado
- No injuries as tornado hits Tier
Lightning researchers work to improve hurricane forecasts
Dallas Morning News
– They’re deceptively simple-looking detectors: one an antenna with built-in GPS the other electronic sensors inside a large upside-down metal salad bowl. The sensors are the basis of a Los Alamos National Laboratory project studying lightning inside a hurricane to improve the accuracy and timeliness of forecasts for people in a storm’s path. The effort is in the second of three years of research. The team is gearing up for the Atlantic hurricane season that peaks this month and in September. Hurricane watchers use satellite images and computer simulations to forecast a storm’s trajectory but it’s a challenge to predict how a hurricane will strengthen or weaken as it approaches land said lightning and radio scientist Xuan-Min Shao. Predictions of where a hurricane will hit have improved by 50 percent in the last two decades said Robert Atlas director of the National ceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Atlantic ceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory near Miami.
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live Branch Cleans Up After Tornado
WAPT.com
– Residents in north Mississippi pick up the pieces after an F2 tornado sweeps through the area. Sunday August 2 2009.
No injuries as tornado hits Tier
Press & Sun-Bulletin
“I screamed ‘Mom something’s happening’”Abigail’s mother Elizabeth grabbed her 2-year-old son and the three made for the basement while a roaring noise – like a jet airplane flying by the house – surrounded them Abigail said. After a few moments Elizabeth said she went upstairs to check on the tornado’s status and saw the funnel cloud traveling north. “We are all really lucky” said Elizabeth. “I have goosebumps thinking about it. There’s an actual place where it touched down. The trees were just ripped apart.