As the end of the calendar year gets closer, there are more meteor showers to enjoy! Why? That’s just how our orbit works, as we cross the debris paths of comets and asteroids during our celestial dance. The Leonids Meteor Shower occurs in the November night sky for most of the month, but the night […]
As CBS News reports, NASA managers have cleared the agency’s leak-bedeviled Artemis moon rocket for the start of another countdown early Monday, but engineers must resolve questions about hurricane-damaged insulation before the huge booster can be cleared for blastoff on an unpiloted moonshot. After multiple delays due to hydrogen fuel leaks and other glitches, along […]
After dumping feet of snow across the highest elevations of California, a strengthening storm will unleash an early dose of winter weather across the central U.S, with blizzard conditions forecast in some areas of the northern Plains, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. Periods of snow persisted on Wednesday morning across portions of Utah, Idaho and up to Montana. The storm will emerge in […]
NASA’s highly-anticipated return to the moon might be delayed once again, not due to technical issues, but due to tumultuous tropical weather. Tropical Storm Nicole developed over the weekend, and AccuWeather forecasters are warning that it could strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane before making landfall along Florida’s Atlantic coast. Artemis I, the first of NASA’s program to return […]
AccuWeather reports that a new hurricane watch was issued along the eastern coast of Florida on Monday as Subtropical Storm Nicole churned across the Atlantic and showed signs of further strengthening as it tracked toward the storm-weary state. AccuWeather meteorologists expect this sprawling storm to take a turn and hit Florida’s east coast — as a hurricane — later […]
With November, we take steps closer to the solstice. In the northern hemisphere, winter approaches in earnest; in the southern, the sun is welcomed back and temperatures continue to rise. The November night sky this month is also a time of astronomical activity, with active meteor showers, planetary close approaches, and even a few extra astronomical events […]
Thank you, we’ll be here all week. But seriously, folks, there are a ton of stargazer opportunities if you aim your telescope towards the icy planet this month. First, on November 8th, you will actually get a visible Lunar Occultation. These “lunar occultations of Uranus” actually happen all year long, but most of the time, […]
This summer has been the toughest in decades on Southwest Florida beekeepers, who were hit hard last month by powerful Hurricane Ian. As The Palm Beach Post reports, Ian came at a particularly bad time because beekeepers and honey producers rely on the late summer/early fall Brazilian pepper bloom. Now many of those Brazilian pepper trees […]
With November, we take steps closer to the solstice. In the northern hemisphere, winter approaches in earnest; in the southern, the sun is welcomed back and temperatures continue to rise. The November night sky this month is also a time of astronomical activity, with active meteor showers, planetary close approaches, and even a few extra astronomical events […]
The 2022 hurricane season isn’t over quite yet. The National Weather Service (NWS) is watching a tropical wave spreading from the Atlantic through the eastern Caribbean that may become a tropical depression early next week if conditions allow a well-defined center to form. The tropical wave, a group of showers and thunderstorms, is moving slowly westward […]