Stargazers get ready! Mid-March welcomes a different kind of astronomical experience: the peak of the y-Normid meteor shower on March 15th. This southern hemisphere meteor shower runs from February 25th through March 28th, but astronomers predict that the night of greatest activity will occur on the 15th. On this night, you can expect to see […]
In case the barrage of late winter storms and devastating flooding didn’t tip us off, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) has announced that after three consecutive years of an unusually stubborn pattern, La Niña has officially ended and El Niño is on the way. As CNN reports, forecasters say that could mean a less […]
For the last several weeks, high temperatures have been breaking records. Many of you may have kissed winter goodbye and already moved on to spring. But perhaps you should have believed Punxsutawney Phil when he saw his shadow and predicted six more weeks of winter. Meteorologists are predicting a huge shift in temperatures this week, […]
The last eight years have been the eight warmest on record as the growing concentration of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere pushes global temperatures toward a dangerous tipping point, a new report shows. As CNN reports, an analysis published by the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service stated that 2022 was the fifth-warmest year for the planet since […]
Be sure to catch a glimpse of the bright, full Moon on the evening of March 7. March’s full Moon is known as the Worm Moon, according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac. So, why Worm Moon? The name comes from the Naudowessie (Dakota) people and has been used by other Native American groups as well. Rather […]
The United States was lashed by 18 catastrophic extreme weather and climate disasters costing at least $1 billion each last year, a new report shows. They came in the form of tornadoes, extreme heat and cold, deadly flooding and hurricanes and a climate change-fueled drought in the West. As CNN reports, when taken together, the country’s so-called billion-dollar disasters inflicted at […]
As the planet warms, hurricanes are changing, but not for the better. They’re getting stronger faster, bringing more flooding rain, pushing farther inland after they make landfall and tracking farther north in general. As CNN reports, those changes are exposing more people and properties to hurricanes’ damaging winds – according to a new report from nonprofit organization First Street Foundation – with […]
Less than a year after going through one of the worst droughts on record, residents living in California could reap the benefits of rain and snow levels that returned to more normal levels this winter. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which controls water allocations to numerous agencies in Northern California, announced Wednesday that senior water […]
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time to the early days of the universe — and they spotted something unexpected. The space observatory revealed six massive galaxies that existed between 500 million and 700 million years after the big bang that created the universe. The discovery is completely upending […]
“All systems go for a major and unusual storm,” the National Weather Service said in its forecast last Wednesday. The powerful winter storm that moved through California dropped heaps of rain, sleet and snow across much of the state, including Southern California, where several feet of fresh powder fell in the mountains of Los Angeles and […]