Author Archives: EarthNow Team
Tropical Cyclone Giovanna
In mid-February, Tropical Cyclone Giovanna greatly impacted Madagascar, the fourth-largest island in the world, with high winds, storm surge, and heavy rain. After passing over the island one time, the storm turned around and made landfall again over the southern-most part of Madagascar, this time a much weakened storm. This EarthNow post will serve as a timeline of events to use in conjunction with the real-time satellite imagery datasets. We will also explore storm-related rainfall totals. Continue reading
EarthNow Topics and Stories
While the EarthNow team will continue to publish the global monthly climate digests each month, we want to make sure our other posts are covering topics and stories you are most interested in. There’s not a lot of sense in EarthNow publishing a story on the North Atlantic Oscillation if nobody is going to talk about it (it is interesting though. Read that entry if you haven’t yet). use the Comment Link below or the Contact Link above and let us know what kinds of topics you would like to see more of. It will be greatly appreciated. Thank you and may your Meteorological Spring begin well for you all today! Continue reading
EarthNow Publication Schedule
From this point forward, blog entries will be posted with a little more fluidity. I will continue to send out EarthNow update alerts via the SOS Yahoo Group and SOS Wiki page, allowing SOS managers and facilitators to know when new information is present. Continue reading
