Ask NASA: A Solar Orbiter discussion in Spanish
Your browser does not support the video tag. Spanish Facebook Live event with Solar Orbiter mission experts at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Video and description courtesy of NASA
In Blob We Trust: A Gulf Coast severe weather model data update
UPDATE (Monday, 9am): The Storm Prediction Center has decreased the severe weather risk to a Marginal risk for sections – but not all – of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. The SPC notes: “This should be favorable for a severe threat as a cluster or line of storms affects the central Gulf Coast region late Wednesday night. Wind damage and hail… Read more →
Ask NASA: Modeling the retreating Greenland Ice Sheet
Your browser does not support the video tag. Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute used data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge to develop a more accurate model of how the Greenland Ice Sheet might respond to climate change in the future, finding that it could generate more sea level rise than previously thought. In the next 50 years,… Read more →
Ask NASA: Answer your questions about the Sun
Your browser does not support the video tag. Is the Sun a ball of fire? And why does NASA send missions to the Sun? NASA’s Heliophysics Director Nicky Fox explains NASA’s latest solar science findings. The Parker Solar Probe mission is revolutionizing our understanding of the Sun, where changing conditions can propagate out into the solar system, affecting Earth and… Read more →
Gulf Coast faces severe threat Wednesday, February 5th
The Storm Prediction Center continues to monitor the region for the potential for severe weather. From the SPC: …Tuesday/Day 4 to Thursday/Day 6… The medium-range models move an upper-level trough across the Four Corners region on Tuesday as southwest mid-level flow remains established from the southern Plains to the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys. A moist airmass should be in place… Read more →
