Climate Change Driving a Large Increase in Intense Storms Across Europe
Climate change is driving a large increase in intense, slow-moving storms, a new study by Newcastle University and the Met Office has found. Investigating how…
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Heating Up in Tokyo – Challenging Temperatures Confront Athletes Competing in the Olympic Games
Ever-warmer summers are among the challenges confronting athletes competing in the Olympic Games. As the 2021 Olympic Games opened in late July, Tokyo was in…
How a Sudden Stratospheric Warming Event Over Antarctica Affected the Northern Hemisphere
Research from MIT Haystack Observatory finds a stratospheric warming event over Antarctica linked to anomalies in near-Earth space above North America and Europe. Weather is…
Space-Based Infrared Imaging Reveals the Nighttime Weather on Venus
Little is known about the weather at night on Venus as the absence of sunlight makes imaging difficult. Now, researchers have devised a way to…
NASA Tracks Scorching Heat Wave Over US Southwest
While one science instrument mapped the dome of high pressure that settled over the southwestern U.S. in early July, another captured ground surface temperatures. Just…
Incredible View of Tropical Storm Elsa Captured From Space
The first hurricane of the Atlantic season made a series of landfalls and dropped abundant rain from the Caribbean to the U.S. East Coast. Tropical…
NASA’s Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Tracks Record-Breaking Heat Wave in Pacific Northwest
The AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite collected temperature readings in the atmosphere and at the surface during an unprecedented heat wave in the Pacific…
Isotopes From Cave Stalactites Show More Intense and Frequent Thunderstorms Linked to Global Climate Variability
Using isotopes from Texas cave stalactites, scientists in Texas A&M’s College Of Geosciences studied thunderstorm changes in the Southern Great Plains. Large thunderstorms in the…
A Cirrus Sign of Tornadoes – An Early Clue of Destructive Weather
Severe thunderstorms can draw plumes of cirrus clouds into the stratosphere, a sign that tornadoes, large hail, or damaging winds may be coming soon. After…
Scorching Heat in Siberia and Europe – Record Low Ice Coverage in Arctic Ocean’s Laptev Sea
While record-breaking heat enveloped the Pacific Northwest in June 2021, other parts of the Northern Hemisphere also saw early-summer temperatures climb. While record-breaking heat scorched the…
Monitoring the Devastating US-Canada Heatwave From Space
While heatwaves are quite common during the summer months, the scorching heatwave hitting parts of western Canada and the US has been particularly devastating –…
Exceptional Heat Hits Pacific Northwest – “Historic and Dangerous”
In June 2021, all-time temperature records fell in multiple cities in the U.S. and Canada during a “historic and dangerous” heatwave. Extraordinary heat events occur…
COVID-19 Lockdowns Cut Pollution, but Not All of It – “It Was Kind of a Surprise”
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, it became clear from satellite observations and human experience that the world’s air grew cleaner. But new research shows that…
California Reservoirs Reflect Deepening Drought – Worst They Have Been Since the 1970s
Precipitation totals and lake levels are among the worst they have been since the 1970s. Just four years after emerging from a severe multi-year drought, California…
Mesoscale Convective Weather System Sends Massive African Dust Cloud Into Europe
The dust storm traveled from Algeria to Italy, spanning roughly 1,000 kilometers (620 miles). On June 22, 2021, the Moderate Resolution imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on…
High Risk of Extreme Drought: Unchecked Climate Change Will Cause Severe Drying of the Amazon Rainforest
Amazon rain forests could be at far higher risk of extreme drought than previously thought, according to new research. An international study, led by the…
How to Supply Emergency Power After the Big Storm
How to Supply Emergency Power to Residents of Rural and Suburban Communities During Multi-Day Outages New research suggests that cooperative strategies for sharing emergency power…
Records Fall in Extreme Early Summer Heatwave
Extreme heat has descended on the southwestern United States, with several states enduring temperatures near and above record highs for June. Extreme heat has descended…