The sweltering heat wave gripping parts of the U.S. has shattered heat records and sparked an air quality health advisory, and it is now suspected of having contributed to at least seven deaths. As NBC News reports, more than 130 million people across the West, the East Coast, southeast Texas and South Florida were under heat alerts […]
When NASA scientists recently tracked the orbits of two space rocks as they made close approaches of Earth, they discovered a surprise: One of the asteroids has a little moon. As CNN Weather reports, astronomers regularly track the trajectories of asteroids to ensure that none of them are on a potential collision course with our planet. […]
California’s Death Valley could reach a scorching 130 degrees this week and come close to breaking its blistering world record as parts of the West, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic are under an extreme heat wave expected to intensify this weekend. The temperature at Death Valley National Park, which stretches between eastern California and Nevada, will reach […]
Well over a week after forming over the Atlantic, Beryl was lining up for a third landfall early in the new week, this time in the U.S., as the storm barreled toward Texas on Sunday, states AccuWeather meteorologists. Expected to strengthen back into a hurricane before moving inland, strong winds, flooding and tornadoes are among the hazards […]
Earliest Category 5 in the Atlantic. Earliest Category 4. Strongest June hurricane. Easternmost June hurricane. First system to undergo rapid intensification in the Atlantic in June. All fresh rewrites of a hurricane record book began in 1851. As The Miami Herald Reports, as only the second named hurricane of 2024, Beryl’s scary statistics are an […]
Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm heading toward Jamaica after earlier crossing islands in the southeast Caribbean, killing at least six people. As AP News reports, a hurricane warning was in effect for Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac. Beryl was losing intensity but was forecast to […]
Unprecedented ocean heat has triggered the world’s worst mass coral bleaching event on record – a coral massacre so severe, reef experts are looking to one of nature’s most dangerous and destructive forces to provide relief: hurricanes. As CNN reports, since January 2023, 72% of the planet’s reef areas have been bleached by heat stress, […]
Hurricane Beryl has quickly gained strength as it charges toward the Caribbean where it is predicted to strike with powerful winds and flooding storm surge. As AccuWeather reports, Beryl reached hurricane status on Saturday afternoon with Category 1 winds of 75 mph just 24 hours after the system was first formed as a tropical depression […]
Two rare asteroids will zoom past Earth at close range this week, one enormous and one at close range, within just 42 hours of each other. As Business Insider reports, due to their size and trajectory, both of these space rocks are labeled “potentially hazardous.” But that doesn’t mean they pose an immediate threat to Earth. In fact, […]
A catastrophic earthquake and tsunami are inevitable for the coast of the Pacific Northwest, scientists say. Planning for that means imagining a disaster unlike anything that’s ever hit the modern United States. “Thirty or forty years ago, we didn’t even know that big earthquakes were possible in the Pacific Northwest,” said Diego Melgar, a seismologist […]