The United Arab Emirates was hit by a year’s worth of rainfall in 12 hours which caused severe flooding to the desert nation’s roads, houses and Dubai’s airport. In dramatic footage, residents were seen jet-sking down streets, planes were forced to land in what looked like an ocean, and high-end Rolls-Royce cars were swept away in the deluge. By […]
Tornadoes can occur in the U.S. at any time throughout the year, but there’s a distinct seasonal peak in tornadic activity, and it starts in April. Long-term severe weather records show April, May and June are the three most active months for tornadoes in the U.S. As Fox Weather reports, between 1991 and 2020, an average of 1,333 tornadoes were […]
50 Years ago, on April 3, 1974, the South and part of the Ohio and Tennessee Valleys were devastated by one of the most significant weather events in U.S. history. Infamously known as the 1974 Super Outbreak, which lasted from April 3-4, 1974, the Outbreak was the first on record to produce more than 100 tornadoes […]
April has been a fantastic month for stargazing. Hot on the heels of the awe-inspiring total solar eclipse is the first meteor shower in four months – the Lyrids. Most meteor showers are caused by debris from a passing comet. For the Lyrids, the comet is named Comet Thatcher. The Lyrid meteor shower – spawned by […]
The European Union’s (EU) Copernicus Climate Change Service has reported that, at 1.68 degrees Celsius hotter than the “pre-industrial” era, March was the warmest March on record and the tenth straight temperature record-breaking month. Globally, the temperature in March averaged 14.14 degrees Celsius, 0.73 degrees Celsius higher than the 1991-2020 average for March and 0.10 […]
The smalltooth sawfish, a critically endangered animal, is in even more danger than usual in the Florida seas. Six of the rare creatures washed up dead in just seven days, officials reported last week – a dramatic increase in mortality amid a mysterious die-off that has baffled scientists for months. These animals that look like a shark with a chainsaw-like […]
SpaceX launched its second national security mission of 2024 last week with a Falcon 9 rocket lifting the U.S. Space Force mission USSF-62 into orbit. According to space.com, the mission took off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on April 11 at 10:25 a.m. EDT. The mission sends a Weather System Follow-on Microwave satellite, or WSF-M, to […]
A rare double-emergence of cicada broods is about to swarm the eastern United States in the coming weeks, scientists say. As AccuWeather reports, Brood 13, which emerges every 17 years, and Brood 19, which emerges every 13, will join together for the first time since 1803. To put that into perspective, that’s when the Louisiana […]
This week was chock full of weather phenomena in the skies. Over the path of totality, the solar eclipse wowed millions. And over Italy, Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, was showing off again. Last week, the Sicilian volcano began emitting an unprecedented amount of vapor rings from the mouth of a […]
New Jersey and New York City dwellers were abruptly shaken Friday morning by an escalating, rumbling vibration. It was the second time this year that an earthquake has struck the region, triggering panicking phone calls from Manhattan to Albany to Long Island, Montclair and Brooklyn. As NBC News reports an earthquake is usually a very foreign experience […]