Hurricane Beryl roared through open waters Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm heading toward Jamaica after earlier crossing islands in the southeast Caribbean, killing at least six people. As AP News reports, a hurricane warning was in effect for Jamaica, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman, and Cayman Brac. Beryl was losing intensity but was forecast to […]
Unprecedented ocean heat has triggered the world’s worst mass coral bleaching event on record – a coral massacre so severe, reef experts are looking to one of nature’s most dangerous and destructive forces to provide relief: hurricanes. As CNN reports, since January 2023, 72% of the planet’s reef areas have been bleached by heat stress, […]
Hurricane Beryl has quickly gained strength as it charges toward the Caribbean where it is predicted to strike with powerful winds and flooding storm surge. As AccuWeather reports, Beryl reached hurricane status on Saturday afternoon with Category 1 winds of 75 mph just 24 hours after the system was first formed as a tropical depression […]
Two rare asteroids will zoom past Earth at close range this week, one enormous and one at close range, within just 42 hours of each other. As Business Insider reports, due to their size and trajectory, both of these space rocks are labeled “potentially hazardous.” But that doesn’t mean they pose an immediate threat to Earth. In fact, […]
It’s summer beach season, and people all over the country are trying to beat the heat by heading for the shores and cooling waters. But those waters can become deadly if you find yourself caught up in a rip current. What is a Rip Current? A rip current is a narrow, fast-moving channel of water […]
A catastrophic earthquake and tsunami are inevitable for the coast of the Pacific Northwest, scientists say. Planning for that means imagining a disaster unlike anything that’s ever hit the modern United States. “Thirty or forty years ago, we didn’t even know that big earthquakes were possible in the Pacific Northwest,” said Diego Melgar, a seismologist […]
Northeasterners finally breathed a little easier late Sunday night as the threat for tornadoes, the highest threat in six years, and severe thunderstorms dissipated. As Fox Weather reports, people across the Northeast and New England kept an eye on the sky Sunday as a strong cold front sliced through the region and broke the recent brutal heat wave, but also triggered the […]
Over halfway into the first month of the 2024 hurricane season, activity has ramped up in the Atlantic. Abnormally warm waters across portions of the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico have helped to promote prime conditions for tropical development this week, with another chance of formation forecast by late week. As AccuWeather reports, meteorologists […]
A summer solstice unlike any other since 1796 will kick off a trio of astronomy events in June, a month that features the shortest nights of the entire year. June’s warm, summery nights are the shortest of the year across the Northern Hemisphere, but there will still be plenty of astronomical sights to look for […]
El Niño has officially come to an end and the ripples from its demise will shake up weather around the globe. And as CNN Weather reports, with El Niño out of the spotlight, its opposite is preparing to take center stage later this summer: La Niña. El Niño – a natural climate pattern marked by […]