After years of delays and a dizzying array of setbacks during test flights, Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is finally set to make its inaugural crewed launch. As CNN weather reports, the mission is on track to take off from Florida as soon as May 6, carrying NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station, […]
Tornado season has begun, and it’s already wreaking havoc on many southern and midwestern U.S. states. You’re sitting at home, and suddenly the National Weather Service (NWS) interrupts your programming with a Tornado Watch or Warning. What is the difference between a Tornado Watch and a Tornado Warning? And what should you do? According to […]
In Antarctica, gold literally rains from the sky. Tucked in among the glaciers, fiery Mount Erebus is the southernmost active volcano on Earth, providing a bit of heat amid the frozen landscape, but it also provides a wealth of gold mixed within its ashes. As AccuWeather reports, according to a 2017 study, the frozen continent […]
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 […]
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 […]