Pakistan’s Monsoon: Do we really need a Monsoon season?

“This is the second article related to the monsoon season of 2013 and it will be followed by many more articles” The country especially the southern parts have seen one of the most unusual winter of all time. It would not be wrong to say that it was the most wettest winter for the southern…

Portal Interactive: Dust Cloud is a wall for monsoon moisture

 This article is written by PWP-Reader Craig Dremann from Redwood City, California, United States of America I have attached July 27’s IR satellite plus the NAAPS dust image, and you can see the wall that the dust makes to stop the westward movement of the monsoonal moisture. One the other hand, you see where in northern Pakistan,…

Portal Interactive: Pakistan on the edge of floods and drought in 2012

 This article is written by Craig Dremann for PWP from Redwood City, California, United States of America PAKISTAN balanced on edge of floods and drought, due to atmospheric dust The rainfall image above is a very bad image to see, and shows the power of the atmospheric dust over Pakistan.  The dust backs up the moisture and causes…

Are you ready for the longest summer day?

As the Earth travels around the Sun in its orbit, the north to south position of the Sun changes over the course of the year due to the changing orientation of the Earth’s tilted rotation axes. The dates of maximum tilt of the Earth’s equator correspond to the Summer Solstice and Winter Solstice. What are Solstices? Solstices occur…

Now or Never: Transit of Venus!

It was Now or Never because if you missed it then chances are that it would happen after you are probably dead! What was it? It was the transit of Venus that is the second such phenomenon of the current century and most likely the last one. The last one happened in December 1874 and December 1882.…