Massive Plume of Sand and Dust Has Blanketed Northern China
Early Season Dust Storm Hits Beijing Meteorological spring is just getting underway, and already an enormous plume of sand and dust has blanketed northern China….
Early Season Dust Storm Hits Beijing Meteorological spring is just getting underway, and already an enormous plume of sand and dust has blanketed northern China….
Lightning strikes — perhaps a quintillion of them, occurring over a billion years — may have provided sparks of life for the early Earth. A…
Results of a 2018 multirocket launch at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks will help scientists better understand the impact of more water vapor…
Flash floods, landslides, and power outages plagued the islands after torrential rains fell. Torrential downpours and destructive flash floods swamped parts of Hawaii in March…
On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake jolted the seafloor about 70 kilometers (45 miles) offshore of Japan’s Tohoku region. It was the largest…
Despite a cold snap in February, low ice cover prevailed across the lakes in winter 2020-2021. In any given year, the formation, movement, and timing…
Whether the first snowflakes of winter fill you with glee or make you groan, winter snowfall is a crucial water source for drinking, agriculture, and…
The torrent of debris from a mountain in the Himalayas devastated remote valleys in Uttarakhand, India. Sheer, glacier-covered ridges separated by gorges soar over the…
Researchers analyzed daily low temperatures and infection rates in 50 Northern Hemisphere countries to quantify their effect on SARS-CoV-2 transmission. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused…
Ocean warming predicted to cause a twofold increase in amplitude of rainfall fluctuations over the tropical Pacific. The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the most…
A substantial dust plume drifted over the Atlantic Ocean, with some of the airborne grains steering toward the northeast. Each year more than 180 million…
A potent arctic weather system chilled much of the United States with frigid weather in mid-February 2021, shattering low-temperature records in the middle of the…
Cameras and sensors on the International Space Station have been helping scientists to characterize the natural light shows produced at the tops of thunderstorms. What…
Three storms in three weeks have left abundant snow atop Hawaii’s tallest volcanic mountains. Snow is not as rare as you might think in the…
As this winter’s polar vortex currently sends extreme icy blasts of Arctic weather to some parts of the northern hemisphere such as the northeast of…
Dark clouds, the smell of rain on a hot sidewalk, the flashes of intense light followed by a loud crackling and then a low, rolling…
Smooth, stationary clouds are occasionally reported by the public as sightings of “unidentified flying objects.” But these clouds are not as mysterious as they might…
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Continuing the planet’s…