4-Minute Earth and Space Weather News for May 21, 2013: Severe Weather, Quake Watch, Solar Update
4-Minute Earth and Space Weather News May 20, 2013: 6.8 Quake, Tornados are Back, M Flare from Limb
Earth and Space Weather News for May 19, 2013: The Earth “Killed” the sunspot refers to the Maunders’ quote about similar observations nearly 400 years ago. [SEE VIDEO - 'THE NEXT ICE AGE']
Earth and Space Weather News for May 18, 2013: Magnetic Storm in progress; Weekly Precipitation Anomaly May 5 to May 11; Global Topographic Map of Titan; A Scene of Ice and Fire: Pavlof Volcan
Earth and space weather news for May 17, 2013: Bright Explosion on the Moon; There was an M-flare last night that produced no significant CME, and another one this morning that will impact Earth moderately; How To Watch The Sun [FREE - No Rental, Donations Optional]
3-Minute Earth and Space Weather News May 15, 2013: The X-Flare party continues as Active Region 11748 unleashed its 4th X-flare inside of 48 hours. At 01:47 UTC this morning peaking to X1.2 was reported from this active region which continues to grow in size.
Earth and Space Weather News for May 14, 2013: 3-major X-class solar flares unleashed by the Sun; A 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck the Pagan region of the Northern Mariana Islands; The top weather story is the cyclone in the Bay of Bengal
The sun unleashed a colossal Mother’s Day solar flare on Sunday (May 12) in what has become the most powerful solar eruption of the year. but was not Earth-facing (and therefore not dangerous); Global earthquake update from the USGS, with the largest being a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Alaska.; the cyclone in the Bay of Bengal reaches peak strength tonight. Most forecasts are predicting a direct impact to Bangladesh; deadly hailstorms continue in eastern India.
Earth and space weather news for May 12, 2013: Water on Earth and Moon Came From the Same Source – meteroites? In the Bay of Bengal, a major storm is heading for the coast-line. 6+ earthquakes returned yesterday. There was a 6.0 magnitude quake in Iran, and a 6.5 in the Tonga region.
Earth and Space Weather News May 11, 2013: Hubble photo of Galaxies Colliding; major cyclone event in the Indian Ocean; 6.0 magnitude earthquake in Iran; 300,000 people live in the drought disaster zone in Angola, where there is no end in sight.
Earth and space weather news for May 10, 2013: Earth-facing sunspot activity is quiet, but there is a monster spot just coming into view. Before coming into view, an M3 Solar Flare was produced. Rocky, Earth-Like planets are fairly common; US Drought Monitor Map; another severe hail storm in India, damaging homes and crops
Earth and space weather news for May 9, 2013: Annular Solar Eclipse of May 10- The first solar eclipse of 2013 occurs at the Moon’s descending node in eastern Ares. Earth-facing coronal hole.
Earth and space weather news for May 8, 2013: The Popocatépetl volcano, located outside of Mexico City, erupted explosively. Video links of the explosion and the resulting ash are below. This is the fifth volcano to erupt in recent days.
Earth and space weather news for May 7, 2013: Volcanic activity in Alaska, Vanuatu, Indonesia, and the Philippines; Global weather update; Solar wind increase due to coronal hole stream
Earth and space weather news for May 6, 2013: The launch of Vega VV02 was halted due to unfavorable conditions in the upper atmosphere; Extreme weather in Thailand on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, with a hail storm being called the worst in years; Solar wind density is on the rise due to a coronal hole stream; The sun produced another M-flare yesterday
