Throughout the first half of 2022, people wanting to get a glimpse of a planet in the night sky have had to wake up before the crack of dawn as every planet visible to the naked eye — Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn — have been early-morning objects. However, by mid-August, Saturn will make […]
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. The annual Perseids meteor shower is wildly popular and usually one of these can’t-miss events. This year the shower will peak between August 11-12, according to the American Meteor […]
As AccuWeather reports, heavy thunderstorms on Friday dumped nearly a year’s worth of rain over the Death Valley National Park in just three hours, resulting in flash flooding that damaged dozens of vehicles, closed roads throughout the park and trapped roughly 1,000 visitors and staff, officials said. “Rain this weekend was a historic event,” the […]
The final supermoon of 2022 will rise just as the dog days of summer come to a close, but it could have a negative effect on a separate hotly anticipated astronomical event. The conclusion of the dog days of summer will kick off a flurry of astronomical events in the night sky, including two highly-anticipated […]
In partnership with NOAA, Saildrone Inc. is deploying seven ocean drones to collect data from hurricanes during the 2022 hurricane season with the goal of improving hurricane forecasting. For the first year, two saildrones will track hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. According to GTSC’s Homeland Security Today (HS Today), this week, Saildrone launched two saildrones into the […]
Not everyone is sweltering in the seemingly never ending summer heat. Some of the reptilian variety actually thrive in it. Rattlesnakes, specifically. Hayley Crowell, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, and her team of researchers set out with the goal of finding out just what range of temps help snakes function at their […]
Yet another wildfire broke out in Northern California at the Oregon border over the weekend. The McKinney fire was exacerbated by winds from thunderstorms this weekend, causing significant growth, burning more than 51,000 acres Sunday afternoon, officials said. According to CAL FIRE. It is currently 0% contained. The McKinney fire started on Friday in Siskiyou […]
After potent thunderstorms rolled through Las Vegas on Thursday night, portions of the iconic Las Vegas Strip were left under water as floodwaters poured into area casinos. As AccuWeather reports, the sky opened up across the Las Vegas metro area, and heavy rainfall turned streets and sidewalks along the iconic Las Vegas Strip into raging […]
Summers are now so brutally hot that the US government created a new website, heat.gov, to help Americans stay safe during dangerous heat spells. It features maps that show current heat conditions across the country and provides other tools and resources to help people beat the heat. The main goal of the website is to […]
While many parts of the world are currently baking under scorching temperatures and suffering through extreme drought, others, like Pakistan, are getting record amounts of rainfall this season. Monsoon downpours deluged portions of Pakistan last weekend and Karachi, the country’s largest city, bore the brunt of the worst impacts as the floodwaters destroyed homes, inundated […]