Wildfires in Florida forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 homes on Sunday, including veterans in a nursing home. The Bertha Swamp Road fire engulfed 9,000 acres, while the Adkins Avenue fire covered just over 840 acres. Combined, the blazes have forced the evacuations of at least 1,100 homes in Florida’s Bay County, according to The Associated […]
One thing that’s hard to grasp about the climate crisis is that big changes can happen fast. Sometimes, in a matter of 48 hours or so, a mélange of ice about 21 miles wide and 15 miles deep can crack up and scattered into the sea. As a matter of fact, it already has – […]
Imagine water flowing through a stream and it encounters a rock jutting upwards. A lot of times you’ll notice the water will flow up and over the rock to the other side. Now picture this on a much bigger scale with a mountain playing as the rock and swapping the atmosphere for the stream. You’ll […]
If you thought that there seemed to be a crazy number of hurricanes last year, you weren’t imagining things. The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season generated an extraordinary twenty-one named storms. That’s the third highest on record! Last year brought in seven hurricanes, four major hurricanes, and an Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) of 145. Those numbers […]
It’s that time of year when temperatures drop to near or below the freezing mark, and snow becomes more frequent across the U.S. On average, weather-related vehicle crashes kill more than 6,200 people and injure more than 480,000 per year across the nation. To make sure you get to your destination safely, here are some […]
If you’re a weather junkie, the first thing you do in the morning is turn on the news to get the weather forecast. But which channel? Or, which website? Most weather nerds will have a favorite, the most “trusted” source, the one who “always gets it right.” Weather sites these days deliver much more than […]
Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin than in the historic late-June 2021 heat wave in western North America. The intense heat wave was the second-deadliest weather disaster of the year, with 1,037 deaths: 808 in western Canada and 229 in […]
La Niña is expected to stick around for at least a little while longer, with the transition back to neutral conditions most likely not taking place until at least later in spring. That’s according to the latest forecast from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center forecast, which was released late last week. […]
If you’ve seen “Titanic,” you know the famous line, “Iceberg, straight ahead!” Well, maybe in colder northern waters that would be quite the sighting. Unfortunately, it looks as though the famous A68A iceberg that has been roaming Atlantic ocean waters for three and half years, has been traveling further and further south, and its joy […]