The arrival of pumpkin spice lattes and cooler temperatures may mean fall is on its way, but nothing quite kicks off the season like when the leaves change into those vibrant hues of yellow, orange and red. The cascade of colors that erupts each September and October signal that change is on its way. So, what can […]
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season entered its fifth month Tuesday, and experts are again taking stock of a deadly and puzzling season. The year started with dire predictions of a hyperactive season, quickly followed by the explosive and record-breaking landfall of Beryl in early July. Then came an odd mismatch in Pacific and Atlantic activity a later mid-season lull. But […]
A solar eclipse event will create a “ring of fire” in the skies over parts of South America on Wednesday, according to NASA. As CNN Weather reports, annular solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between Earth and the sun as the moon is near to, or at the farthest point, in its orbit from Earth, […]
It sure doesn’t look like Autumn in the southwestern part of the U.S. As we enter the month of October, temperatures will soar to record-challenging levels from the inland deserts to the California coast during much of the week, AccuWeather meteorologists say. Along with surging temperatures will come a renewed wildfire risk. “A vast zone of high […]
Meteorologists warned that Hurricane Helene was going to be a historic, “once-in-a-lifetime” event. They were right. As AccuWeather reports, as the hurricane, now downgraded to a tropical storm, moves on and out of the Southeast, the stunning scope of widespread damage across Florida and Georgia becomes clear, and extreme rain from Helene continued to unleash […]
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, […]