Often many do not see the connection between aviation and meteorology, there can be a basic assumption that aircraft can withstand a wide variety of weather phenomena, which is often true but some are lacking in overall capability.
When it comes to studying tropical cyclones, there is no debate that there are several very interesting features which to mind with some of the more intense tropical cyclones which come into existence.
As more and more people find various needs to travel via commercial aviation from around the globe, there is an increased demand for there to be more and more flights offered to various destinations around the world.
Although it has now already been a few months since Hurricane Florence smacked into the coastal and semi-coastal sections of the Carolinas, there is still much to be gained from this event and much learning which is still yet to come in the context of furthering current and future scientific knowledge.
Every day in many places and regions spread around the world, there are substantial concerns tied to the ongoing threat of unpredictable landslide and/or mudslide events.
Around the world every day, there are major issues when it comes to airports and private and/or commercial aircraft dealing with various types of fog.
Every day around the world, millions and millions of people travel via private and/or commercial aircraft to get to various places they need to travel to for business or leisure.
Earth’s atmosphere can be divided into four layers based on how temperature changes with height. In the lowest layer of the atmosphere (troposphere), temperature generally decreases with height.
Photo: Satellite image of Lake-Effect Snow over the Great Lakes region on January 5, 2015. (Image courtesy of The Weather channel) Lake-effect snow primarily affects the Great Lakes region of the Midwestern United States but can have an impact on any region near a lake, capable of the ideal temperature differential to form these snows. The difference of 13 degrees Celsius in lake water temperature and air one mile above the surface is the ideal and primary ingred […]
In 2016, Hurricane Matthew walloped North Carolina. The state was still recovering from Matthew when Hurricane Florence severely flooded the Carolinas this year.
