COVID-19 Is Disrupting Weather Forecasts – Here’s How
Weather forecasts have become less accurate during the COVID-19 pandemic due to the reduction in commercial flights, according to new research. A new study in…
Meteorology
Best Place on Earth to See Stars – Where They Can Finally Be Seen Without Their Twinkle
Stars viewed from a place called Dome A in Antarctica can finally be seen without their twinkle – which means in much greater detail. Have…
How’s the Weather on Mars? Electrically Charged Dust Storms Drive Martian Chlorine Cycle
How’s the weather on Mars? Tough on rovers, but very good for generating and moving highly reactive chlorine compounds. New research from Washington University in…
Record Greenland Ice Loss in 2019 Driven by Unusually Clear Skies
Last year was one of the worst years on record for the Greenland ice sheet, which shrunk by hundreds of billions of tons. According to…
Earlier Warning of Satellite-Killing Radiation Storms With New Space Weather Model
Two-day notice lets satellite operators take protective measures against energetic electrons. A new machine-learning computer model accurately predicts damaging radiation storms caused by the Van…
Snowmageddon Weather in North America More Influenced by Tropics Than Arctic
First ever study of how North America’s four main weather regimes are affected by polar vortex strength. Winter weather patterns in North America are dictated…
Global Food Production at Risk From Large Atmospheric Waves in the Jet Stream
In a new study published today (December 9, 2019) in Nature Climate Change, scientists show how specific wave patterns in the jet stream strongly increase…
Controversial Theory on Extinction of Ice-Age Animals Supported by New Evidence
Did an extraterrestrial impact trigger the extinction of ice-age animals? University of South Carolina archaeologist finds evidence in South Carolina to support controversial theory. A…
Long Before Dinosaurs, a Giant Asteroid Crash Caused an Ancient Ice Age
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze. The seas began to ice over at the Earth’s poles,…
2015 El Niño Appears Likely to Equal the Event of 1997-98
NASA scientists continue to monitor and study this year’s El Niño, which appears likely to equal the event of 1997-98 – the strongest El Niño…
NASA TV Will Broadcast Perseid Meteor Shower Program
NASA TV will host a program for this week’s Perseid meteor shower, which is expected to be one of the best in years. NASA’s Marshall…
New NASA/NOAA Animations Reveal Water Vapor Over Oceans
Scientists have used observations from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites to create two new types of animations that indicate where…
Astronomers Prepare for a Fireball Display from the Perseid Meteor Shower
On the nights of August 12th and 13th, astronomers will have the opportunity to watch the Perseid meteor shower, a meteor shower that has recently…
Australian Heat Wave Causes Gadgets to Fail
The Australian heat wave is getting so hot that Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology had to add new colors to its weather map. There are parts…
The Inherent Unpredictability of El Nino Events
El Niño events are not as predictable as previously thought. According to new analyses of climate records locked within ancient corals, the frequency and strength…
Atmospheric River Observatories Allow Accurate Weather Prediction of Floods
Atmospheric rivers are long, narrow conveyor belts of rainstorms that stream in from the Pacific Ocean. Meteorologists have been able to predict the storms five…
Commercial Network of Microsatellites Aims to Help Weather Prediction
Most orbiting satellites point down towards Earth, but the satellites of the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology look sideways. Ionosphere and Climate (COSMIC) look towards…
It’s Impossible to Stop the Seas from Rising Completely
Global sea levels have risen about seven inches in the past hundred years, and that pace is steadily accelerating thanks to climate change. This rise…