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Let us steer Vermont in a different direction
To the Editor: We would like to recommend a strong yes vote for Charles Burnham and Nick Lopez as the next representatives in the Lamoille-Washington House district. Burnham has vast experience in land planning and other projects. He gets people to work together, finds consensus and solves problems. His goals for Vermont are to doggedly reduce state expenditures, reduce taxes and improve outcomes for what Vermont spends.
Prop 5 is too radical for Vermont
To the Editor: This fall, voters will vote on Proposal 5 as a proposed constitutional amendment. Act 47, which is a Vermont law passed in 2019, already ensures that women have access to abortion. Considering the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, this has had no impact on abortion in our state. The amending of Vermont’s Constitution is totally unnecessary as a woman’s right to an abortion is already protected in Vermont.
Thanks to Manchin, BBB's housing provisions are dead - and should stay that way
Sen. Joe ManchinJoe ManchinOn The Money — Biden extends student loan relief Overnight Health Care — FDA endorses first pill to treat COVID-19 Energy & Environment — Advocates look for Plan B climate legislation MORE (D-W.Va.) effectively killed the Build Back Better Act (BBB) and, fortunately for American taxpayers, its numerous misguided housing proposals likely are gone along with it.
The cost of complexity in low-income housing assistance
Testimony Statement before the Senate Committee on the Budget Roundtable on "Examining Federal Housing Assistance Programs" EconomicsHousing FinancePoverty Studies September 16, 2020 Low-income housing assistance is fertile ground for reforms that would provide better outcomes for the money spent. Most current recipients are served by programs whose cost is enormously excessive for the housing provided.
Ed Olsen
Edgar (Ed) O. Olsen is aa adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on low-income housing policy and poverty alleviation, including welfare policy. He is concurrently a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Virginia, where he has taught a course on the US welfare system for many years.
NASA sees wind shear affecting Tropical Cyclone 02A
Tropical Cyclone 02A made its way west across the Arabian Sea and NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the storm when it was just off the coast of Oman. Infrared data showed the storm was beginning to elongate from wind shear. Infrared data taken from NASA's Aqua satellite on June 27, 2016 at 2159 UTC (5:59 p.m. EDT) showed cold cloud top temperatures in strong storms just off the coast of Oman. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument flies aboard Aqua.
Heavy rainfall precedes the development of 01B in the N. Indian Ocean
NASA's AIRS instrument on the Aqua satellite captured this image of Tropical Cyclone 01B in the Northern Indian Ocean on May 18, 2016. This system which had been designated System 91B turned into a cyclone during the early morning hours of May 18, 2016. The Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) issued Warning #01 at 0900 GMT (5:00am EDT) that same day.The storms position is currently 84 miles northeast of Chennai, India moving at 9 kph.
NASA sees birth of Tropical Cyclone 20P, threatens American Samoa
As Tropical Cyclone 20P formed in the Southern Pacific Ocean NASA's Aqua satellite analyzed storm cloud top temperatures while the RapidScat instrument looked at surface winds. The National Weather Service in Pago Pago expects the tropical storm to affect American Samoa by the weekend. Before it became a tropical storm today, April 20, NASA's RapidScat instrument spied tropical-storm-force winds on the southern side of the developing tropical low pressure area on April 18.
NASA sees pinhole eye seen in weakening Tropical Cyclone Winston
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite saw that Tropical Cyclone Winston maintained a pinhole eye as it tracked east of southern Vanuatu's islands in the Southern Pacific Ocean on Feb. 23, 2016. Infrared imagery showed bands of strong thunderstorms were wrapping into the low-level center of the storm. On Feb. 23, 2016 at 0140 UTC (Feb.
NASA infrared imagery shows wind shear affecting Tropical Cyclone Uriah
The Southern Indian Ocean's Tropical Cyclone Uriah is now past its peak and continues to weaken. Infrared satellite imagery from NASA revealed wind shear has already begun to take a toll on the storm. Wind shear began affecting Tropical Cyclone Uriah on February 17 as it reached its peak intensity. By February 18, increasing vertical wind shear's effect became more apparent. On Feb.
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Winston threatening Tonga and American Samoa
NASA satellites have been providing data on Tropical Cyclone Winston in the Southwestern Pacific, and watched the storm over the past couple of days as it weakened to a tropical storm. Today, Feb. 16, Winston regained hurricane-force and threatens Tonga and American Samoa. On Feb.16 a gale warning was in effect for Niue. In Tonga, a storm warning was in effect for Vavau and a gale warning was in effect for Ha'apai, Niuafo'ou and Niuatoputapu. On Feb.
NASA sees a stronger Tropical Cyclone Uriah
Cloud top temperatures in storms within Tropical Cyclone Uriah grew colder over the last couple of days, according to infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite. That's an indication of stronger uplift in a tropical cyclone and a stronger storm. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite saw the storm when it was struggling against wind shear, and two days later NASA's Aqua satellite saw Uriah reach hurricane-strength after the shear weakened.
NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Winston form
After Tropical Cyclone Winston formed between Vanuatu and Fiji in the Southern Pacific Ocean NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and saw powerful thunderstorms had quickly developed. On Feb. 11 at 1405 UTC (9:06 a.m. EST), the MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite saw coldest cloud top temperatures near minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit/ minus 62.2 degrees Celsius indicating very powerful storms circling the center of Tropical Cyclone Winston.
NASA eyeing an interesting weather system in northern Atlantic
A non-tropical low pressure system that has a possibility of developing subtropical characteristics has developed in the Northern Hemisphere tropics. During the week of January 4, Tropical Storm Pali developed in the Northern Central Pacific Ocean. On January 10 an area of low pressure developed in the Northern Atlantic Ocean, far to the east of Bermuda and NASA's Aqua satellite captured a look at the system in infrared light.
NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite sees Tropical Cyclone Chapala developing an eye
Tropical Cyclone Chapala developed in the Arabian Sea on October 28 as the fourth tropical depression in the Northern Indian Ocean basin and on October 29, strengthened into a hurricane. NASA-NOAA's Suomi NPP satellite passed over Chapala and took a visible picture of the storm that showed it had become better organized over the 24 hour period and appeared to be developing an eye feature. On Oct.
NASA gets clear look into Typhoon Champi's 36-nautical-mile-wide eye
When the eye of a tropical cyclone is 36 nautical miles (41.4 mile/ 66.7 km) wide, it's pretty easy to spot from NASA's Aqua satellite in orbit. On October 22, 2015, two instruments aboard Aqua saw the large eye surrounded by powerful thunderstorms. Champi's eye was very close to the island of Iwo To, Japan. At 03:23 UTC on October 22 ((11:23 p.m. EDT, Oct.
NASA sees the 26th Northwestern Pacific Tropical Depression form
It has been a busy season in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean, tropically speaking. The twenty-sixth tropical depression of the western North Pacific Ocean hurricane season formed and NASA's Aqua satellite saw it come together. At 03:20 UTC on October 22, 2015 (11:20 p.m. EDT, Oct. 21), NASA's Aqua satellite passed over newborn Tropical Depression 26W. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer that flies aboard Aqua captured visible image of the storm.
NASA's GPM measured Typhoon Champi's heavy rainfall
Typhoon Champi has been generating heavy rainfall since Oct. 16, 2015, when NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement, or GPM, mission analyzed the storm. The storm intensified from a tropical storm to a typhoon after GPM passed overhead. GPM is a joint mission between NASA and JAXA. The RapidScat instrument aboard the International Space Station also showed what side of the storm had the strongest winds. On Oct.
NASA sees Typhoon Choi-wan moving north in Western Pacific
Typhoon Choi-wan continued to move north in the western Pacific Ocean as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead in space on October 6 and took an infrared look at the storm. Earlier, the RapidScat instrument aboard the International Space Station measured the storm's strongest winds. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Choi-wan on Oct. 6 at 0317 UTC (Oct. 5 at 11:17 p.m. EDT) and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument measured cloud top temperatures.
NASA sees Tropical Storm Choi-Wan strengthening over open ocean
Tropical storm Choi-wan was spinning over open waters of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean when NASA's Aqua satellite saw the strengthening storm. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California a false-colored infrared image was created using data from the AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite. The AIS image showed the powerful, heavy rainmaking storms with cold cloud tops as cod as -63F/-53C in a comma shaped Typhoon Choi-Wan on Oct. 5 at 2:35 UTC (Oct.
NASA sees wind shear affecting Tropical Storm Joaquin
Despite being battered with vertical wind shear, Tropical Depression 11 strengthened and organized into Tropical Storm Joaquin. NASA's Aqua satellite and NOAA's GOES satellite both captured images of the slightly elongated storm near the Bahamas. On Monday, September 28, NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Depression 11 at 17:23 UTC (1:23 p.m. EDT). The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument analyzed the storm in infrared light, providing temperature data to forecasters.
NASA views new Atlantic tropical depression in infrared
The eleventh tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean formed early on September 28 over 400 miles southwest of Bermuda as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and looked at the storm in infrared light. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathers data in infrared light that provides information about temperatures.
NASA sees wind shear affecting Tropical Storm Niala
NASA's Aqua satellite saw wind shear was affecting newborn Tropical Storm Niala as it continued moving through the Central Atlantic Ocean. Despite wind shear, Tropical Depression 6C formed about 500 miles southeast of Hilo, Hawaii at 11 p.m. EDT on September 24, 2015. By 11 a.m. EDT, the depression strengthened into a tropical storm and was renamed Tropical Storm Niala. On Sept.
NASA sees formation of Tropical Depression 21W
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over a developing tropical low pressure area in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean on September 21 when the latest depression was coming together. The AIRS instrument aboard Aqua used infrared light to determine temperatures of cloud tops and where the strongest storms were located.
Satellites see Tropical Depression 16E's landfall in northwestern Mexico
Tropical Depression 16E made landfall in northwestern Mexico on September 21 and NASA's Aqua satellite and NOAA's GOES-West satellite captured imagery of the storm that is bringing heavy rainfall. At 5 p.m. EDT on Sunday Sept. 20, Tropical Depression 16-E (TD16E) developed off the west coast of the Baja California Peninsula.
NASA's RapidScat and Aqua satellite see Tropical Depression 9 developing
The ninth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season developed in the central Atlantic on September 16, 2015. The day before, NASA's RapidScat instrument analyzed the surface winds of the developing low pressure area and found tropical-storm-force winds in one quadrant of the system. NASA's Aqua satellite looked at the depression and saw that it was already being affected by wind shear.
NASA gets infrared view of new Tropical Storm 20W
The twentieth tropical depression of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean formed early on September 14 and became a tropical storm the next day, triggering a tropical storm watch. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the low pressure area as it was consolidating and saw powerful thunderstorms circling the center. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathers data in infrared light that provides information about temperatures.
Japan: Typhoon Etau floods send hundreds of tonnes of contaminated Fukushima water into ocean
Flooding caused by Typhoon Etau has sent hundreds of tonnes of contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean, a Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) spokesperson said. Rain overwhelmed the site's drainage pumps, they added. Tepco is storing massive quantities of contaminated water that was used to cool melted fuel in the reactors damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated the site.
NASA sees Tropical Storm Etau drench Japan
NASA's GPM core satellite passed over Tropical Storm Etau as it moved across central Japan, dropping heavy rain. By September 9, Etau had weakened and moved over the Sea of Japan where it is expected to dissipate. The Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission satellite measures rainfall rates from space. GPM is a joint NASA/JAXA mission.
NASA takes an infrared baby picture of Atlantic's Tropical Depression 8
NASA's Aqua satellite captured a "baby picture" of the eighth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean Hurricane Season. On Sept. 9 at 5:53 UTC (1:53 a.m. EDT), the AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared look at newborn Tropical Depression 8. AIRS data showed the coldest cloud top temperatures near -63F/-53C were being pushed east of the center of circulation.
NASA sees wind shear affecting Tropical Storm Jimena
Strong vertical wind shear has been affecting Tropical Storm Jimena in the Central Pacific and pushing the clouds and storms west of the center, as seen in infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathers infrared data that reveals temperatures.
NASA sees Tropical Storm Kevin stream high clouds over Baja California
Tropical Storm Kevin's center was several hundred miles south-southwest of Baja California when NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and saw some associated high clouds streaming over the peninsula. The MODIS and the AIRS instruments aboard Aqua captured visible and infrared images of Kevin on September 3 at 20:50 UTC (4:50 p.m. EDT). The visible image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer or MODIS instrument provided look at Kevin's clouds.
NASA shows upper-level westerly winds affecting Tropical Storm Fred
Upper-level westerly winds have been affecting Tropical Storm Fred in the far eastern Atlantic Ocean and continue to do so today, September 3. Infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite showed the highest thunderstorms pushed southeast of the storm's center. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathers infrared data that reveals temperatures.
NASA sees shapeless Tropical Depression 14E
Tropical Depression 14E can't get its act together and still appears as a shapeless, asymmetric mass of clouds and thunderstorms on infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Depression 14E on September 2 at 0905 UTC (5:05 a.m. EDT).
NASA sees a weakening Hurricane Ignacio moving parallel to Hawaiian Islands
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Hurricane Ignacio and viewed the storm in infrared light, providing valuable temperature data. Aqua saw a weaker Ignacio moving parallel to the Hawaiian Islands. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument aboard Aqua gathers infrared data that shows temperatures. That AIRS data was made into a false-colored infrared image from August 30 at 22:47 UTC (6:47 p.m. EDT) and showed high, cold, strong thunderstorms surrounded the center of Hurricane Ignacio.
NASA sees comma shaped Tropical Storm Kilo
Tropical Storm Kilo looks like a giant comma from space in imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite. Kilo continues to strengthen and was affecting Johnston Island as a tropical storm warning continued on August 28. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over the tropical storm on August 27 at 13:05 UTC (9:05 a.m. EDT.
NASA data shows Hurricane Ignacio's very cold cloud tops indicate quick strengthening
When cloud top temperatures get colder, the uplift in tropical cyclones gets stronger and the thunderstorms that make up the tropical cyclones have more strength. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Hurricane Ignacio and infrared data revealed cloud top temperatures had cooled from the previous day. Ignacio strengthened to a hurricane at 11 p.m. EDT on August 26. It became the seventh hurricane of the Eastern Pacific Ocean hurricane season.
NASA sees Tropical Storm Kilo wrapped halfway around itself
When NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Kilo early on August 27, infrared imagery showed that bands of thunderstorms wrapped more than halfway around the system. On August 27, a tropical storm warning was in effect for Johnston Island as Kilo moved closer. Bands of rain and thunderstorms have already been affecting the islands and are expected to continue as the storm moves closer.
NASA sees former Typhoon Atsani's remnants affecting Alaska
The remnants of former Typhoon Atsani were triggering watches and warnings for heavy rain and snow in portions of Alaska on August 26, 2015. Atsani's remnants resembles a frontal system in infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite. Infrared data, such as that gathered by the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite is used to determine cloud top temperatures.
NASA's Aqua Satellite takes Tropical Storm Danny's temperature
Tropical Depression 4 strengthened into Tropical Storm Danny late on August 19, as NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead and took its "temperature." That is, infrared data from the AIRS instrument aboard measured cloud top temperatures and sea surface temperatures around the new tropical storm. On August 18 at 15:47 UTC (1:47 p.m. EDT) the AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared data on Danny as it was strengthening into a tropical storm.
NASA sees Tropical Storm Guillermo's big stretch
When you look at Tropical Storm Guillermo on infrared NASA satellite imagery it looks stretched out with a "tail" of clouds extending to the northeast. That's because westerly wind shear continues to batter the storm and weaken it. Strongest thunderstorms and coldest cloud tops near -63F/-53C in Guillermo were pushed east of the center on Aug.5 at 2253 UTC (7:53 p.m. EDT).
NASA sees newborn Tropical Depression 12W near northeastern tip of Philippines
When Tropical Depression 12W formed on the northeastern tip of the Philippines in the Luzon Region, NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared data on the newborn storm. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite captured infrared data on Tropical Depression 12W. AIRS data showed some cloud top temperatures were as cold as -63F/-53C on July 23 at 5:17 UTC (1:17 a.m. EDT). Cloud top temperatures that cold have been shown to generate heavy rainfall.
NASA sees thunderstorms flaring up on Halola's eastern side
NASA infrared satellite imagery taken early on July 17 shows strong thunderstorms on the eastern side of Tropical Storm Halola. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Tropical Storm Halola on July 16 at 10:35 p.m. EDT and the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument gathered infrared temperature data on the storm. AIRS showed the coldest cloud top temperatures at -63F/-53C, associated with the strongest thunderstorms, were all east of the center of circulation.
NASA's Aqua satellite sees Typhoon Halola elongating
NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Typhoon Halola in the northwestern Pacific Ocean and captured temperature data on the storm. Satellite data showed that wind shear is affecting the stubborn storm. NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Halola on July 14 at 20:20 UTC (4:20 p.m. EDT/1:20 p.m. PDT) infrared data from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that also flies aboard Aqua showed cloud top temperatures were as cold as -63F/-52C.
NASA sees Tropical Storm Enrique enter cooler waters, weaken
Tropical cyclones need sea surface temperatures of at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (26.6 Celsius) to maintain strength, and a new infrared image from NASA's Aqua satellite shows that Tropical Storm Enrique has moved into an area where temperatures are under that threshold.
NASA's Aqua satellite sees Hurricane Dolores moving away from Mexico
NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Hurricane Dolores in the Eastern Pacific Ocean as it continued to move away from the southwestern coast of Mexico. Dolores was still a Category 4 hurricane and was generating rough surf and ocean swells. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) noted on July 15 that "swells generated by Dolores are affecting portions of the coast of southwestern Mexico and the southern coast of the Baja California peninsula.
NASA's Aqua satellite observes Supertyphoon Nangka
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Supertyphoon Nangka on July 9 and provided a visible and an infrared view of the large storm. At 0700 UTC (3 a.m. EDT) on July 9 a typhoon warning was in effect for Agrihan, Pagan and Alamagan in the northern Marianas. A tropical storm warning is in effect for Saipan and Tinian. Nangka passed over Alamagan.
NASA sees Typhoon Nangka strengthen
NASA's Aqua satellite passed over Typhoon Nangka on July 6 and took an infrared look at the large storm as it strengthened from a tropical storm into a typhoon. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared temperature data on Nangka on July 6 at 15:11 UTC (1:11 p.m. EDT). The infrared data showed a large storm with the bulk of thunderstorms east of the low-level center.
NASA sees Nangka become a typhoon
Tropical Storm Nangka strengthened to a typhoon in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean just after NASA's Aqua satellite passed overhead on July 6. Infrared data from the AIRS instrument showed very cold cloud top temperatures indicating strong thunderstorms within the tropical cyclone. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder or AIRS instrument that flies aboard NASA's Aqua satellite gathered infrared temperature data on Nangka on July 6 at 02:53 UTC (10:52 p.m. EDT on July 5).
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