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 […]
NASA’s latest deep-space telescope continues to shock astronomers and amateurs with jaw-dropping new images captured from the outer reaches of the cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope appears to have pictured a wormhole spinning in the “Phantom Galaxy,” a place whose very center scientists believe may contain a black hole. “I’ve been doing this for 10 years […]
On Saturday, weather broadcasters repeatedly referred to a wildfire near Yosemite National Park in California as having “exploded” overnight, going from 10 acres to 5,000 in a matter of hours, with zero percent containment. Which begs the question, what makes a wildfire “explode?” All it really takes is a spark to start a fire. A […]
As summer heat builds, more people will rely on air conditioning units to keep cool. But what do you do if you don’t have central AC? A lot of people don’t. In fact, in places like England, France, Coastal Communities, and in locations where adding a costly AC unit has never really been necessary before, […]
AccuWeather reports that a new all-time record high was set in the United Kingdom Tuesday, and the brutally hot weather helped exacerbate a growing outbreak of house fires across London. The London Fire Brigade was forced to declare a major incident Tuesday in response to a huge surge of fires across the capital. The fire brigade […]