Papers published in early online format by journals of the American Meteorological Society reveal new climate divisions for the state of Hawai‘i, surprises about which type of lightning causes most wildfires, a new model for understanding tornado formation, and differences in weather-related triggers for chronic pain sufferers who spend time outdoors.
It’s pupping season for grey seals in the Northumberland Strait. Normally that would happen on the ice. Baby seals can’t swim, so they need to be born on a solid surface.
It’s pupping season for grey seals in the Northumberland Strait. Normally that would happen on the ice. Baby seals can’t swim, so they need to be born on a solid surface.
The deadly storm that is walloping California with hurricane-force winds and record amounts of rainfall was fueled in part by the powerful weather phenomenon known as a "bomb cyclone," the National Weather Service said.
Pro: The old record of 134 degrees F in 1913 is flawed should be discarded. But the observation will not count as an official world record. In 2013, the World Meteorological Organization officially decertified the official all-time hottest temperature in world history, a 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit reading from Al Azizia, Libya, in 1923. (Burt was a member