cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6119411

Good presentation.

Live alerts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-V_YnmER0Y

OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/florida/comments/1g025gi/every_tornado_warning_in_florida_in_the_past_48/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA_Hurricane_Hunters

https://www.cnn.com/weather/live-news/hurricane-milton-florida-10-08-24#cm20i25sq00003b6nkmk91f0f

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/092140.shtml?tswind120#contents

Keep safe folks!

Vegetation cover across the Antarctic Peninsula has increased more than 10-fold over the last four decades, new research shows.

The Antarctic Peninsula, like many polar regions, is warming faster than the global average, with extreme heat events in Antarctica becoming more common.

The new study—by the universities of Exeter and Hertfordshire, and the British Antarctic Survey—used satellite data to assess how much the Antarctic Peninsula has been "greening" in response to climate change.

It found that the area of vegetation cover across the Peninsula increased from less than one square kilometer in 1986 to almost 12 square kilometers by 2021.

Birds are incredible navigators, capable of traveling thousands of miles each year to the same location. But sometimes even they end up in the wrong place at the wrong time — like inside a hurricane.

As Hurricane Helene was making landfall in Florida as a powerful Category 4 storm, radar spotted a mass in the eye of the storm that experts say is likely birds and perhaps also insects.

Seabirds likely fled the storm’s extreme winds — which reached 140 miles per hour — and ended up in the eye, where it’s calm. Once inside, they essentially got trapped, unable to pierce through the fierce gusts of the eye wall.

Storms like Helene can blow seabirds like petrels, jaegers, and frigatebirds far inland. Exhausted, they end up in unfamiliar habitats where they can’t easily find food. “It’s a challenging situation,” said Andrew Farnsworth, a bird migration expert at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. “We know that birds do die in these things.”