Well, El Niño has arrived. There’s 100% certainty El Niño will last through early winter, the Climate Prediction Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, recently said, and a 90% or higher chance it lasts into spring. As AccuWeather reports, El Niño typically divides the country in half, but where the dividing line […]
Violent shaking from an earthquake can strike suddenly, without warning, and at any time of the year, day or night — and residents of California are hardly the only people in danger. As CNN reports, forty-five states and territories of the United States are at moderate to very high risk of earthquakes, and every region […]
At least 129 people have been killed in an earthquake that struck a remote part of northwestern Nepal overnight on Friday and toppled multiple buildings as officials warned that the death toll could rise. As Accuweather reports, the quake measured magnitude 5.6 according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and hit some 42 kilometers […]
On the second Sunday of March, at 2 a.m., clocks in most of the United States and many other countries move forward one hour and stay there for nearly eight months in what is called Daylight Saving Time (yes you read that right – the correct term is Daylight Saving Time, not Savings). On the […]
The James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories witnessed a massive explosion in space that created rare chemical elements, some of which are necessary for life. As CNN reports, the explosion, which occurred on March 7, was the second brightest gamma-ray burst ever witnessed by telescopes in more than 50 years of observations, over one […]
Trick-or-treaters are in for a shock this Halloween as an impressive shot of cold air from Canada plunges into the US and temperatures plummet in its wake. As CNN Weather reports, high pressure from Canada will slide into the central US and keep conditions dry for many trick-or-treaters. But it will also bring the cold […]
Just over thirty years ago, a trio of atmospheric factors came together to form a storm so uniquely dangerous and powerful that its mesmerizing development could only be described in one way: perfect. As Accuweather reports, that’s how Bob Case, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Boston, categorized the storm at the time. […]
All the winter weather ingredients are coming together for the season’s first major snowstorm across the northern Rockies, northern Plains and parts of the Pacific Northwest beginning Tuesday, potentially creating travel delays across the region’s mountain passes. “A cold front brushing over Canada right now drags down the chilly air,” FOX Weather meteorologist Amy Freeze said. “And there’s also a storm strong enough […]
When envisioning a tumblin’ tumbleweed, one usually thinks of a lone bush wafting across a deserted desert highway. But that’s not what happened in Great Falls, Montana, last week. Tumbleweeds piled up into mountainous heaps against homes in the area in central Montana during a high wind event that blasted through the state on Tuesday. […]
The peak of the Orionid meteor shower coincides nicely with a First Quarter Moon this year. After the September lull, observers look forward to the Orionids in part because they are produced from debris shed during historic passes of the famous Halley’s Comet. The Orionids could reach a zenithal hourly rate of 20 to 30 meteors […]