316690 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material http://phys.org/news/2015-08-gpm-satellite-heavy-loke-center.htmlThe Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite can measure rainfall from space, and saw heavy rainfall in the Central Pacific's Loke when it was a hurricane. Hurricane Loke formed southwest of the Hawaiian Islands on August 21, 2015 but Loke has not been a threat to Hawaii....Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:13:00 +0200phys-971212c5a7a9564370445e99215b4a7820150826171300http://phys.org/news/2015-08-nasa-tropical-storm-loke.htmlTerra passed over Loke on August 24 at 09:50 UTC (5:50 a.m. EDT). The data showed that the strongest storms, with the coldest (red) cloud top temperatures were north of the center of circulation. Credit: NASA/NRL. NASA's Terra satellite analyzed Tropical Storm Loke in infrared light as it continued strengthening in the Central Pacific.Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:27:00 +0200phys-2f03fe4628471111237a0e5a2442477720150824182700http://www.trust.org/item/20150823160031-izlmr/Aug 23 (Reuters) - Tropical depression Kilo is expected to strengthen back into a tropical storm later on Sunday as it travels across the central Pacific toward the west end of the Hawaiian islands, the National Weather Service said. Further west in the Pacific a new storm, Loke, has been named and a tropical storm watch issued for Midway Island.Sun, 23 Aug 2015 20:29:00 +0200trust-6aebefa517b94f9e39d311b4b353c4a720150823202900http://www.trust.org/item/20150823160031-izlmr/?source=searchAug 23 (Reuters) - Tropical depression Kilo is expected to strengthen back into a tropical storm later on Sunday as it travels across the central Pacific toward the west end of the Hawaiian islands, the National Weather Service said. Further west in the Pacific a new storm, Loke, has been named and a tropical storm watch issued for Midway Island.Sun, 23 Aug 2015 19:28:00 +0200trust2-6aebefa517b94f9e39d311b4b353c4a720150823192800