The water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle, refers to the continuous movement of water between the earth and the atmosphere. There are many components to the water cycle, but we’ll just break down the most important ones. Evaporation and Transpiration According to the National Weather Service (NWS), Evaporation is the process by which […]
Parts of Utah saw wet weather in recent days, but it wasn’t enough to dampen the state’s crippling drought. Water managers are bracing for another year of shortages, with the lack of moisture expected to impact wildlife populations and drop the Great Salt Lake to a record low for a second year in a row. […]
As reported by AccuWeather.com, three University of Oklahoma meteorology students died in a tragic car crash on their return trip from Kansas last Friday, where they had successfully intercepted a tornado while on a routine storm chasing outing. According to a report from The New York Times, Nicholas Nair, 20, Gavin Short, 19, and Drake Brooks, 22, had been traveling […]
If you are wondering how a location can move from an exceptional drought to a major flood in a short period of time, you might want to watch the Red River Valley between North Dakota and Minnesota. North Dakota suffered from a major drought in 2021 with an exceptional drought or a category four drought […]
James Webb, astronomy’s new super space telescope, has taken another major step to full operational capability. The $10bn successor to the Hubble Space Telescope is now fully focused and aligned. Light bounces perfectly off its mirrors to form pin-sharp imagery in all four of its instruments. All that remains is to check that the instruments […]
In an unprecedented move, Southern California officials have declared a “water shortage emergency” and asked roughly 6 million residents to limit all outdoor watering to just once a week. The latest government drought monitor maps show nearly all of the West is in drought stretching from California (where 95 of the state is now suffering […]
As drought suffocates the West, a very different threat may unfold only a couple states eastward, according to the NOAA forecast: major flooding that could overwhelm the Red River, which flows along the boundary between North Dakota and Minnesota. Above-average precipitation is most likely in portions of the Great Lakes, Ohio Valley, mid-Atlantic and the […]
The dangerous combination of extreme wildfires followed by torrential rainfall that can lead to deadly flooding and landslides will likely become more common in western states as the world becomes warmer, according to a new study. The study, just released in the journal Science Advances, found that the double threat of extreme fires and rainfall […]
For parched areas of the western United States, spring is unlikely to offer relief. Instead, historic “megadrought” conditions will probably worsen, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced in its annual spring outlook. As the Washington Post reports, NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center — part of the National Weather Service (NWS) — is also forecasting […]
Typically, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) starts its North American wildfires profile in the summer or even fall. However, as climate change increasingly has a more significant impact, the concept of disaster seasons has been disappearing. Two significant winter fires in Colorado and California, along with dozens of smaller fires, have led to statistics […]