Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Here is the article on how monstrous the Greensburg tornado really was.
Greensburg study finds that storm contained 22 tornadoes
By STAN FINGER
The Wichita Eagle
The first in-depth study of the Greensburg, Kan., tornado has uncovered new
details about one of the strongest and most dramatic tornado outbreaks ever
recorded.
“There are a lot of things in that storm that made me go, ‘Wow,’” said Les Lemon,
a co-author of the study and research associate meteorologist with the Cooperative
Institute in Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at the University of Oklahoma. (more…)
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
It’s NOT an Urban Legend about the world’s largest plastic trash islands
floating in the Pacific. There is actually two, an eastern floats between
California and Hawaii, and a western located off of the Pacific side of
Japan. Their combined area covers two times the size of Texas.
100 million tons of free floating trash. 90 percent of it is plastic.
The ocean’s natural currents keeps it floating together. A large current (more…)
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