A solar-powered airplane finished crossing the United States on Saturday, landing in New York City after flying over the Statue of Liberty during its historic bid to circle the globe, the project team said. The spindly, single-seat experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse 2, arrived at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport at about 4 a.m. local time after it took off about five hours beforehand at Lehigh Valley International Airport in Pennsylvania, the team reported on the airplane's website. Such a pleasure to land in New York! For the 14th time we celebrate sustainability," said the project's co-founder Andre Borschberg on Twitter after flying over the city and the Statue of Liberty during the 14th leg of the trip around the globe. The Swiss team flying the aircraft in a campaign to build support for clean energy technologies hopes eventually to complete its circumnavigation in Abu Dhabi, where the journey began in March 2015. The solar cr...
The present El Nino climate marvel could be one of the most grounded on record, as indicated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The occasion happens when the waters of the Pacific turn out to be particularly warm and misshape climate designs the world over. Analysts say parts of the Pacific are prone to be 2C hotter than normal. The WMO says that the current year's occasion is fortifying and will top before the current year's over. The most grounded El Nino on record was in 1997-98, however occasions were fundamentally over the standard in 1972-73 and again ten years after the fact in 1982-83. Researchers say that the occasion now in progress is sending ocean temperatures in parts of the Pacific to levels not seen subsequent to the late 1990s.
In an announcement the WMO said that this El Nino was gathering
The wonder can change set up climate designs in distinctive parts of the world, conveying serious dry spell to parts of Asia while in the meantime conveying overwhelming flooding to a few sections of North America.It can increase flooding in the Horn of Africa while making Southern Africa drier. The events are likely to lead to a decrease in storm events in the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico and an increase in storminess in the eastern Pacific. This El Nino has also impacted the South Asian monsoon. "We are seeing that the Indian monsoon right now is almost 12% below normal. There is only a month left of the summer monsoon season making it difficult to recover," said WMO's El Nino expert Rupa Kumar Kolli.
"That was the kind of early warning information we can extract from the El Nino signal and it helps policy makers to prepare," he said.Currently, the Pacific is seeing a surge of hurricane activity, with three category four strength tropical storms swirling around the Hawaiian islands. Researchers say that these hurricanes can disrupt the predominant easterly trade winds that are found along the equator. This disruption allows more heat to build up in the eastern part of the Pacific, adding more fuel to stormy conditions. But researchers cautioned that the scale of impacts, especially in the northern hemisphere, is very hard to read because there is also an Arctic warming effect seen in the Atlantic jet stream.
"The truth is we don't know what will happen. Will the two patterns reinforce each other? Will they cancel each other? Are they going to act in sequence? Are they going to be regional? We really don't know," David Carlson, the director of the World Climate Research Programme, told news agencies.
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