On May 19, 2011, the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) on NASA’s Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite observed a work in progress in northern Quebec, east of James Bay. The project – known as the Eastmain-1-A/Sarcelle/Rupert Project – is designed to inc...

Two tropical storms, named Bret and Cindy, are now in the open waters of the North Atlantic, while Hurricane Dora is continuing to strengthen in the eastern Pacific, off the west coast of Mexico. All three systems were captured on one GOES-13 satelli...

Irish Weather Online (IWO) has received yet another image of a funnel cloud in the skies over Ireland, this time in County Cork. Seán Twomey emailed IWO with the below two images of the rotating funnel which formed over Tower, near Blarney on Monday...

Bangladesh typically experiences a mild winter from October to March; a hot, muggy summer from March to June; and a warm, rainy monsoon from June to October. By early July 2011, still early in the monsoon season, rains had already transformed northea...

The UK Met Office (UKMO) has poured cold water on media reports today that Britain is heading toward the coolest and dullest summer for two decades. Met officials say it is too early to say how this summer will compare to others in the record books ...

By IWO Visual - Sun Jul 10, 3:38 pm [Translate] Las Conchas fire near Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA, on 7 July 2011. Image Modis Follow Irish Weather Online on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook. Stay updated via RSS (No Ratings Yet)  ...

While tornadoes are relatively rare in Ireland, funnel clouds are a more regular occurrence. Funnel clouds are condensation funnels extending from the base of a towering cumulus or Cb, associated with a rotating column of air that is not in contact...

Volcanic activity decreased Sunday 10 July as this image of the Mt Etna at 1pm GMT shows Dramatic footage has been released of Mount Etna in Sicily (Italy) blasting out lava and producing a dense ash plume that extended more than two kilometres int...

SUNDAY 10 JULY 2011Connacht – Moderate (High in prolonged sunshine)Leinster – HighMunster – HighUlster – Moderate (High in prolonged sunshine) MONDAY 11 JULY 2011Connacht – HighLeinster – HighMunster – HighUlster – High TUESDAY 12 JU...

By IWO Visual - Sat Jul 09, 3:48 pm [Translate] A selection of satellite images of locations throughout the world on 09 July 2011. Instrument MODIS South western Australia (Western Australia) Paraguay, southwest Brazil and eastern Bolivi...

Two women were hospitalised overnight after their house was struck by lightning in the Nottinghamshire, England, market town of Newark. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue said the lightning strike struck Friday night and caused a small fire after it sho...

Drought displaced refugees wait for food and cash handout from donations by local residents in Mogadishu, Somalia on July 6, 2011. Hundreds of families recently arrived in Mogadishu after they fled from southern provinces of Somalia due to famine a...

A time lapse video that took 18 months to produce provides a dramatic view of the night-time skies over the Southern Ocean Coast in Australia. The video, which is featured on the Vimeo site and includes music from Redmann, features stunning images of ...

First it was US President Barack Obama, now Ireland can claim Polar Bears too! An international team of scientists has discovered that the female ancestor of all living polar bears was a brown bear that lived in the vicinity of present-day Britain...

Only 48 percent of Afghanistan’s population have access to safe drinking water and only 37 percent use improved sanitation facilities – with serious health implications, especially for children, according to the UN Children’s Fund. While some p...

On June 30, 2011, Tropical Storm Arlene made landfall near Cabo Rojo in Veracruz, Mexico. As the storm came ashore, the U.S. National Weather Service forecast total rainfall accumulations up to 8 inches (20 centimetres), and warned of potentially lif...