September starts in a few days, so does meteorological autumn! Meteorological autumn starts in September and lasts till November in the northern hemisphere. These are the months where temperatures start to decline. However, astronomical autumn starts on Sep 22/23, when length of day becomes equal to night time. However, meteorological autumn starts before astronomical autumn since days are already getting shorter with less solar energy day by day. But for folks residing in the Arabian Peninsula, it may still feel like SUMMER! It will take up to end of September and early October for some cooling to take effect. Of course. [ Read More ]
Archive for August 28th, 2010
Pakistan is flooded. What a historic flooding!? I wish everybody there safety and a speedy recovery. Pakistan usually receives summer rain. The indian monsoon that builds up in summer, stretches up to Pakistan every year during July and August. But 2010 monsoon proved to be totally different! While the media has focused extensively on the human and health impacts of the flooding, I thought of giving an idea of how much rain really fell in Pakistan. The below 2 images (from NASA TRMM site) shows rainfall for the last 30 days. The first shows total rainfall, and the second shows anomaly [ Read More ]
