En un boletín emitido a las 22.15 hora local (03.15 GMT del sábado), el SMN indicó que el meteoro se encontraba a 590 kilómetros al sur de Manzanillo, estado occidental de Colima.
Marie desarrolla vientos máximos sostenidos de 110 kilómetros por hora, rachas de hasta 140, y presenta un desplazamiento hacia el oeste-noroeste a 24 kilómetros por hora.
En el transcurso de las próximas horas, Marie generará lluvias torrenciales (de 150 a 250 milímetros) con tormentas
World | Indo-Asian News Service | Updated: July 19, 2014 15:18 IST
Shipping Markets Eye El Nino Threat
A potential El Nino weather phenomenon, which could wreak havoc on global crops, is set to disrupt shipping patterns and raise freight costs, leaving suppliers and importers to cover their food needs from longer-haul destinations.
El Nino, a warming of sea-surface temperatures in the Pacific, can trigger floods and drought in different regions, hitting production of key foods such as rice, wheat and sugar. Weather forecasters are increasingly predicting it will return in 2014 for the first time in five years.
During previous El Nino patterns, the main sea freight index at London's Baltic Exchange has risen significantly. In February 2009 when El Nino appeared, the BDI was at 1,099 and it reached 2,998 in March 2010
Brian Kahn, Climate CentralPublished: Jul 18, 2014, 10:25 AM EDTweather.com
Looking at the state of the climate, you can see heat everywhere. From the top of the globe to the depths of the oceans and everywhere in between, the climate is warming and changing in ways humans have never experienced.
Last year was between the globe’s third- and sixth-warmest year on record, including record
By Esther Tanquintic-Misa | June 16, 2014 2:31 PM EST
Ice-penetrating radar technology inserted aboard Nasa survey flights has discovered frozen forms of ice blocks at the very bottom of the Greenland ice sheet which are as tall as city skyscrapers and as wide as the island of Manhattan.
The Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is seen in this undated NASA image. Vast glaciers in West Antarctica seem to be locked in an irreversible thaw linked to global warming that may push up sea levels for centuries, scientists said on May 12, 2014. Six glaciers including the Thwaites Glacier, eaten away from below by a warming of sea waters around the frozen continent, were flowing fast into the Amundsen Sea, according to the report based partly
