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: A rare daytime meteor exploded over the northeastern United States, producing a sonic boom and releasing energy equivalent to hundreds of tons of TNT.

A notoriously unpredictable meteor shower is approaching its peak, and past surprises suggest skywatchers may want to keep a close eye on the night sky.

The June Bootids usually produce just a handful of meteors, but this notoriously unpredictable shower has a history of surprise outbursts.

Nothing showcases the incredible power of our atmosphere like storms, and no one does stormchase photography like Mike Olbinski. In this vignette, he shows a stunning line of supercells caught near sunset on July 17, 2022. The high shear–combined with the setting sun–put on an incredible show. Dust blown up in a haboob, microbursts and […]

Ground-based resonance LiDAR has been used to study the morphology of the mesospheric potassium (K) and sodium (Na) layers from 2016 to 2024 at São José dos Campos (SJC; 23.1°S, 45.9°W). The seasonal variation of Na densities around 85–100 km altitude shows a pronounced minimum in summer and a flat maximum in equinox and winter. Otherwise, the K layer shows semiannual and annual behavior with a s…

Strong winds and heavy rain batter Slovenia, while France experiences atypical heatwave in its north and west Severe thunderstorms swept across the Balkans last week bringing widespread destruction to many areas. The storms developed as unstable hot air sat over the Adriatic Sea while a cold front plunged south-eastward. The cold front began its journey southwards on 10 June in Slovenia where the…

The first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season brought intense rainfall and the threat of flash flooding to the U.S. Gulf Coast. The post Tropical Storm Arthur appeared first on NASA Science .

A United States Army Lieutenant was the first to forecast the deadly storms in the late 1800s. Then he was told to stop. The post In the Midst of Tornado Season, a Surprisingly Short History of Predicting Twisters appeared first on Nautilus .

The remnants of Tropical Storm Arthur are battering parts of the southeastern United States with heavy rain, sparking flash flood and tornado warnings along the Gulf Coast

Several inches of rain expected in south-eastern US as forecasters expect storm to cause life-threatening flooding Tropical Storm Arthur was downgraded from a cyclone to a low pressure area along the upper Texas coast as it made landfall and lost wind intensity on Thursday. Forecasters still expect the storm to cause life-threatening flooding, property damage and disruptions to commerce and trave…

A heat advisory has been issued for the Houston and Galveston area between 11 a.m. Thursday and 10 p.m. Friday, with expected heat indices between 107 and 114 degrees Fahrenheit or 41 and 46 degrees Celsius.

Your Weather App Is Lying to You (And Your Window Knows It) I caught my weather app in 35 lies over 19 days. Here's what I found. The Setup I pointed a $30 IP camera out my window in Shenzhen and built an automated conflict detector: Camera sees : brightness (RGB mean) + sound level (audio RMS) App says : Open-Meteo forecast (precipitation probability, cloud cover) When they disagree : log it, wa…

Midwest Tornado Outbreak: Severe

Tropical Storm Arthur is the first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season and will bring heavy rains and potential flash flooding to the Southeast

The southern US is seeing intense rain that is expected to cause dangerous flash flooding Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The first tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season formed on Wednesday near the Gulf coast, bringing intense rain and the threat of dangerous flash floods to states including Texas and Louisiana , meteorologists said. Tropical Storm Arthur was a disorg…

Forecasters say Arthur could generate life-threatening flash floods along the northern Gulf Coast. But it is not expected to strengthen further.

An abnormally cold patch of water in the North Atlantic Ocean has triggered changes in the Indian summer monsoon via the jet stream winds, new research suggests.

Setting the El Niño years since 1950 against IMD’s long-period rainfall series shows that, of roughly two dozen such years, about 15 produced a below-normal monsoon and around 10 tipped into outright deficiency; this correlation of close to three in five is strong enough to shape food and fiscal planning

The National Hurricane Center in Miami says the system is expected to bring intense rain to southern states including Texas and Louisiana this week.

As it slogs northeastward, the system may become a tropical depression or tropical storm - but flooding is a real threat regardless.