Archive for the 'Meteorology' Category

Weather pages for Spain’s Sierra Nevada and Alpujarra mountains

As an aid to mountaineers, backcountry skiers and walkers, a new weather and snow reporting service has been launched for the Sierra Nevada mountains in Spain
The new Weather Information Service can be found at the Sierra Nevada Weather website that is managed by Spanish Highs Mountain Guides. The reasoning behind the service is explained by [...]

Toutatis Asteroid

NASA obtained radar pictures of an asteroid that flew close to Earth in early December, 1992, giving them the best view yet of the kind of object that may have collided with the planet 65 million years ago and brought the Cretaceous Period to an end with the extinction of most dinosaur species. This same [...]