Arctic Blast Brings Record Cold to the U.S. A potent arctic weather system chilled much…
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Cameras and sensors on the International Space Station have been helping scientists to characterize the…
Three storms in three weeks have left abundant snow atop Hawaii’s tallest volcanic mountains. Snow…
ESA’s Aeolus satellite is helping scientists track dramatic polar vortex events that disrupt winter weather…
Lightning events like blue jets and elves, once invisible from Earth, are now being observed…
Lenticular clouds over Antarctica look like UFOs but are natural mountain wave phenomena, rarely seen…
Earth’s global average surface temperature in 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest year on…
Dark clouds, the smell of rain on a hot sidewalk, the flashes of intense light…
In mid-January 2021, the Pacific Northwest of North America was soaked by several episodes of…
Spain faces deep freeze after record snowfall, visible in Sentinel-3 satellite imagery. The heavy snowfall…
Sentinel-2 captured Madrid under heavy snow after Storm Filomena halted transport and logistics. The snow…
Meteorologists declared it the largest snowfall in the region since 1971. Between January 7–9, 2021,…
Researchers have confirmed a sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) event over the North Pole, which could…
Westerlies Moved Poleward in the Past, as They Are Doing Now The westerlies — or…
Researchers identify a mechanism by which small particles in the atmosphere can generate more frequent…
Summer in Antarctica is marked by days in which the Sun never sets, balmy temperatures…
As winter moisture rolls in from the Pacific Ocean and makes snow on the Sierra…
Though air and sea temperatures worldwide have been quite warm in 2020, the eastern and…