Dubai’s Desert Deluge: Satellite Snaps Unusual Flooding Fiasco
Recent torrential rains in Dubai caused widespread flooding, submerging roads and affecting flights. Over 250 mm (~10 inches) of rain fell across the UAE in…
Recent torrential rains in Dubai caused widespread flooding, submerging roads and affecting flights. Over 250 mm (~10 inches) of rain fell across the UAE in…
Researchers used satellite data to calculate the depth of water in this transient freshwater body. California’s Death Valley, the driest place in North America, has…
New findings have revealed a coastal realm highly sensitive to changes in runoff and rainfall on land. After helping stoke record heat in 2023 and…
A long-term sea level dataset shows ocean surface heights continuing to rise at faster and faster rates over decades of observations. Global average sea level…
A new study significantly reduces uncertainty about cloud impact on global warming, finding anvil clouds less influential than expected. New analysis based on simple equations…
New modeling predicts Australia may experience megadroughts lasting 20 years or more, exacerbated by climate change, posing severe risks to the environment and agriculture. Australia…
It’s not a forecast, but this map of historical cloud cover will tell you how often skies on April 8 have been cloudy in the…
Arctic sea ice coverage in 2024 decreased to 6 million square miles, continuing a 46-year trend of shrinkage and thinning. Sea ice at the top…
The Arctic and North Atlantic oceans have seen an increasing number of days when precipitation falls as rain, not snow. The Arctic is known for…
The storm dropped a substantial amount of rain as it moved across Mozambique. In March 2024, low wind shear in the Mozambique Channel allowed Tropical…
The large reservoir in Catalonia shrank to 1 percent of capacity in March 2024. Three subsequent years of record low precipitation have taken a toll…
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite provides a new view of water on land, at the coast, and in the ocean. A series of…
The effects of a warm winter in the upper Midwest are evident in the lack of lake ice. Ice coverage on the Great Lakes typically…
New research published in journals of the American Meteorological Society indicate changes in ocean-sea ice interactions, moderated temperature variations, and varied reactions to sunlight. New…
Scientists speculated about these holes for decades, but it’s now well understood that cavum clouds are caused by airplanes. Cavum clouds, also called hole-punch clouds…
Refreshed by precipitation from an atmospheric river, a temporary lake in Death Valley is extending its stay. An ephemeral lake in Death Valley’s Badwater Basin…
Torrential rain fell on southern parts of the state, the product of an intense atmospheric river. An unusually strong winter storm parked over California for…
What caused the year to be so hot? Here is a breakdown of the primary factors that scientists considered. NASA announced that 2023 was the…