A fleet of satellites keeps NOAA’s weather forecasters on alert for severe storms, floods, droughts, ice jams and other environmental hazards. Two types of satellites are used for forecasting: geostationary and polar orbiting. Those in geostationary orbit are at high altitudes and stay above the same area all the time. Weather Monitoring Weather satellites and…
While the Meteorological Service Singapore (MSS) officially began collecting weather data in 1929, systematic observation of Singapore’s rainfall and temperature stretches back even further. The MSS uses an islandwide network of sensors to measure air moisture near the surface and releases a weather balloon twice a day to track conditions up to 37km in the…
Weather satellites take pictures of the world every 5 to 15 minutes. The images show cloud cover and help meteorologists understand the weather and forecast short term events. Researchers in Nepal say a deadly storm that ripped through the country last month was a rare tornado. They confirmed it using satellite images, social-media posts and…
