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The COVID-19 shutdown is making weather prediction more difficult

Post author By Randall
Post date April 8, 2020
Categories In airlines, coronavirus, covid-19, feature, gts, noaa, satellite, Tech, tomorrow, weather, wmo

[ad_1] WMO The ground and satellite components of that system are largely automated and generally immune to at least the immediate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Lars Peter Riishojgaard, Director, Earth System Branch in WMO’s Infrastructure Department believes that the impact of losing those aerial observations will still be “relatively modest.” However, he explained in […]

2019 was Earth’s second-warmest year on record

Post author By Randall
Post date January 15, 2020
Categories In Climate Change, giss, global warming, goddard, goddard institute, green, Nasa, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, Politics, Tech, tomorrow, weather, wmo, world meteorological organization

[ad_1] 2019 was 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit (0.98 degrees Celsius) warmer than the 1951 to 1980 mean, according to NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). To collect the data, NASA took exhaustive readings from over 20,000 weather stations, sea surface buoys and ships and Antarctic research stations. The full dataset is available on the agency’s […]