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Lubbock, Texas dust storm similar to Dust Bowl-era events
Whenever you see a dust cloud, there's an almost instinctual reflex to start talking about The Grapes of Wrath. It's natural. But it's often misplaced. Your average cloud of dirt is less apocalyptic...
View ArticleTime-lapse video of lab-grown snowflakes
Back in December, researchers at Caltech posted a research paper to arXiv that attempts to explain why the shape and structure of snowflakes change significantly depending on relatively small shifts...
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Prospecting for wind
Before the Lights Go Out is Maggie's new book about how our current energy systems work, and how we'll have to change them in the future. It comes out April 10th and is available for pre-order now....
View ArticleGoodbye "Snowmageddon XIX", hello "Gandolf"
The Weather Channel has decided to begin naming winter storms the way we already name tropical storms. But while tropical storm nomenclature is an organized and official process, carried out by a...
View ArticleWhen geology meets meteorology
Dust from the Sahara desert could leave Sweden soaked in red "blood rain" this weekend. (Via Kevin Zelnio)
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Radar imaging of Hurricane Sandy reveals the power in its core
The images above — prepared by NASA hurricane researcher Owen Kelly — were taken on Sunday, before Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the United States' Northeast coast. They're made from radar data...
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What makes wind?
It can be a nice breeze, or a destructive storm, but either way wind is just moving air. And moving air is just moving molecules. In an explainer for kids that's actually pretty helpful for grown-ups,...
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The wild rivers above California
Atmospheric rivers are meteorological phenomenon that we humans only discovered in 1998 and which supply about 30-to-50 percent of California's annual precipitation. In the NOAA satellite image above,...
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The Meteorology of Little House on the Prairie
If you read The Long Winter, Laura Ingalls Wilder's novel about narrowly avoiding starving to death during a ferocious winter on the South Dakota prairie, then you'll remember how the trains stopped...
View ArticleBeautiful video of a supercell thunderstorm
It took photographer Mike Oblinski four years of traveling to Plains States to capture this fantastic time lapse footage of a supercell thunderstorm near Booker, Texas. Supercells are a type of...
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Word of the day: Haboob
Fun to say. Less than fun to experience. Haboobs are dust storms known for their distinctive wall-like appearance. Think the ice wall from Game of Thrones, but made of dirt, and heading right for you...
View ArticleRare "snonado" captured on Lake Superior
According to the Weather Channel, there are only six known photographs of winter waterspouts in existence. Then, last week, Jordan Detters captured a good minute and a half of video, showing winter...
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Take this quiz and learn how to spot misused meteorological terms
Chris from Sense About Science sez, "Thundersnow, willy-willys and the hottest/coldest seasons on record, there's certainly no shortage of headlines about the weather. But many meteorological terms we...
View Article5G wireless may mess up weather forecasts
While 5G mobile networks promise to provide tremendous wireless speeds with low latency, they may also make it more difficult for meteorologists to provide weather forecasts. That's because 5G's...
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Watch how crowdsourced citizen data demonstrated how tornadoes form
The deadly 2013 El Reno tornado was 2.5 miles (4 km) wide and killed a team of tornado experts. But as Anton Seimon explains, his colleagues turned that tragedy into an opportunity to confirm a key...
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Alarming chart shows 140 years of country-level temperature anomalies
Antti Lipponen of the Finnish Meteorological Institute created this troubling but unsurprising chart of almost 140 years of temperature anomalies by country. The data used was from the NASA GISS, Land...
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Wonderful footage of fireball meteor over Idaho
Jordan Ragsdale in Eagle, Idaho captured spectacular footage of a meteor lighting up the sky over the northern states earlier this week. Here's an incredible fireball I captured at 10:52 MDT on 7/3/21...
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World's longest lightning flash recorded, an astonishing bolt that spanned...
The World Meteorological Organization has certified that two lightning flashes that occurred in 2020 have broken historical records in length and duration. A lightning bolt in April 2020 spanned 477...
View ArticleMeteorologist Christian Moullec glides with the birds
Christian Moullec, also known as the Birdman, likes to soar through the skies around Europe with geese. Moullec is a meteorologist who loves birds and hang-gliding. He's been at it for two decades....
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Texas struck by meteor the size of a thousand-pound corgi
From The Jerusalem Post: A meteor around the size of a Pembroke Welsh Corgi and weighing around the total weight of four baby elephants struck the Earth near McAllen, Texas last Wednesday, NASA...
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Meteorologist Adam Krueger sneaks song lyrics into his weather forecasts
Meet Adam Krueger—Chief Meteorologist at CW39 in Houston Texas and one of Houston CityBook's 20023 "100 coolest Houstonians"—who takes viewer requests for song lyrics to sneak into his weathercasts. He...
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