Seeing the future hot spells This article talks about how scientist uses new ways of predicting when heat waves will strike. Climate models can often predict that whether a heat wave is coming by checking the soil moisture, but a number of factors like how they interact affect the strength and extent of a hot spell in unpredictable ways. Like the heat wave that hit Europe in 2003 which trigger forest fires and crop losses.

Studies show that regional climate models provide better results if they include accurate data about soil moisture and satellites are a good way to gather such information as soil moisture may vary even in small distances. When scientists can get a faster heads-up about conditions that might aggravate heat waves, preventions could be done.

After reading this article, I realised that satellites have more abilities than I expected, not just use for broadcasting live shows. Scientists had done alot of researches to improve our life, and in this case, to prevent us from any type of harm. After they found these new way of predicting more accurate results, prevention can be done to stop disaster like forest fires.

Done by: Sng Wei Long (36)

Source: http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/41736/title/Seeing_the_future_hot_spells
Date: Friday, March 13th, 2009 by Sid Perkins  ¶ 4:15 PM