As Hurricane Helene gains strength and is expected to hit Florida’s panhandle as a Category 4, everyone is talking not so much about the wind speeds, but the “unsurvivable” storm surge that could devastate the area. What is storm surge? Put simply, storm surge is the level at which sea water rises above its normal […]
Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise. As CNN reports, since 2018, a team of scientists forming the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, has been studying Thwaites — often […]
A brewing storm in the Caribbean Sea is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico over the next few days and make landfall along the Gulf Coast as early as Thursday. As USA Today reports, by Monday evening, the National Hurricane Center predicted the storm – still officially a “potential cyclone” but […]
After another brutally hot summer, cooler, shorter days — and pumpkins — are on our doorstep. The autumnal equinox arrived Sunday, marking the end of astronomical summer and the first day of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. As The Washington Post reports, the exact time of the fall equinox changes slightly each year. This year, the […]
It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami in Greenland last September. Then came something inexplicable: a mysterious vibration that shook the planet for nine days. Over the past year, dozens of scientists across the world have been trying to figure out what this signal was. Now, […]
A storm currently spinning just off the Southeast coast is an example of what meteorologists call a “homegrown” storm. The storm had been thought to become Tropical Storm Helene, but never got organized enough to officially qualify as a named storm. Regardless, these tropical storms and hurricanes are the ones that can quickly form close […]
California issued its earliest snow advisory in the past 20 years with an alert early this week for residents in the Sierra Nevada, according to the National Weather Service (NWS). As USA Today reports, this week, areas of the Sierra Nevada above 8,000 feet are expecting some snow as a trough, a region of low […]
Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, has left dozens dead since sweeping across southern China and Southeast Asia last week, leaving a trail of destruction with its intense rainfall and powerful winds. As AccuWeather reports, after hitting the Philippines, where it killed more than a dozen people, it churned westwards towards southern China and shortly […]
The reprieve that the gulf coast and eastern seaboard states have had from this year’s Atlantic Hurricane Season is officially over. On Tuesday, Francine had strengthened into a hurricane and by Wednesday she was upgraded to a Category 2, taking aim at Louisiana with life-threatening storm surge and winds up to 100 miles per hour. The […]
Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, new study has found. As AccuWeather reports, the space agency planned the DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, mission to carry out a full-scale assessment of asteroid […]