In just a little over a month, five areas across the United States have all experienced what should have been very unlikely — if not impossible — one in 1,000-year flooding events. As AccuWeather reports, most recent historic flooding event occurred in Dallas on Monday, August 22, where 8 to 16 inches of rain fell […]
NASA has released a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. As Science Alert reports, the black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the acoustic waves coming from it have been transposed up 57 and 58 octaves so they’re […]
Europe is experiencing its worst drought in at least 500 years. Landscapes across Europe and beyond are being altered as forest fires, melting glaciers and other disasters threaten to wipe out entire regions. But as these terrains change, new discoveries are surfacing. Lately, droughts have been drying up river beds across the globe, exposing never seen archaeological treasures. Here are some of […]
Some weather terms are just… weird and wacky. No ifs ands or buts about it. Here’s one from the weather nerd archives that may leave you scratching your head: Frog Strangler. The term “Frog Strangler” dates back to 1870, according to a post on StackExchange. Almost all the variants of the colloquialism, which begin with […]
Much of America has been dealing with drought this summer. According to government data, for the week ending August 9, 43 states were under at least moderate drought conditions, accounting for half the landmass of the lower 48 states. The Southwest has been hit the worst, from Texas (which had its hottest July on record), west to California, and as […]
AccuWeather meteorologists continue to warn about a surge of tropical activity and direct threats to the southeastern United States as the heart of the hurricane season looms, despite a long gap in tropical development over the Atlantic this summer. Atlantic tropical activity this year has been slower than in recent seasons and there has not been […]
For the third time since May, human skeletal remains have been found at Lake Mead, officials reported last week. It’s yet another grim discovery as the drought gripping the Western United States has helped push the country’s largest reservoir to new historic lows. National Park Service rangers responded to a report around 8 p.m. on […]
At the start of every year, stargazers flip through their calendars and mark down the dates of big astronomy events ranging from eclipses to planetary alignments. Did you know that this month, Moon and Mars will “hook up” just before sunrise? Before daybreak on Friday, August 19, our earthly Moon will meet up with the […]
As The Associated Press (AP) reports, for the second year in a row, Arizona and Nevada will face cuts in the amount of water they can draw from the Colorado River as the West endures more drought, federal officials announced Tuesday. Though the cuts will not result in any immediate new restrictions — like banning […]
California has set a hugely ambitious goal to build up its offshore wind industry. The Golden State is aiming to reach 25,000 megawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2045, about as much as all of Europe has today. The target, set by the California Energy Commission last week, is the biggest commitment any state has […]