The three main weather patterns on Venus. Researchers think the dayside poleward circulation and newly discovered nightside equatorial circulation may fuel the planetwide super-rotation that…
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While one science instrument mapped the dome of high pressure that settled over the southwestern U.S. in early July, another captured ground surface temperatures. Just…
July 8, 2021 The first hurricane of the Atlantic season made a series of landfalls and dropped abundant rain from the Caribbean to the U.S.…
The AIRS instrument aboard NASA’s Aqua satellite collected temperature readings in the atmosphere and at the surface during an unprecedented heat wave in the Pacific…
Using isotopes from Texas cave stalactites, scientists in Texas A&M’s College Of Geosciences studied thunderstorm changes in the Southern Great Plains. Large thunderstorms in the…
June 16, 2021. June 16, 2021. Detail. Severe thunderstorms can draw plumes of cirrus clouds into the stratosphere, a sign that tornadoes, large hail, or…
June 16, 2021 Precipitation totals and lake levels are among the worst they have been since the 1970s. Just four years after emerging from a…
Rainclouds moving over the Amazon rainforest. Credit: Jessica Baker Amazon rain forests could be at far higher risk of extreme drought than previously thought, according…
June 15, 2021 Extreme heat has descended on the southwestern United States, with several states enduring temperatures near and above record highs for June. Extreme…
June 6, 2021 A phenomenon known as a “heat dome” set the stage for remarkably high temperatures as meteorological summer got under way. With meteorological summer just…
June 5, 2021 For the second year in a row, drought has overtaken much of the United States from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific…
The relationships among CAW, heatwaves, wildfires, and pollution. Anomalous anticyclones characterize the atmospheric circulation that develops concomitantly over the three remote regions around the summertime…
A satellite image of the June 2020 trans-Atlantic dust storm. Credit: NASA/NOAA For two weeks in June 2020, a massive dust plume from Saharan Africa…
While it is widely accepted that climate change drove the evolution of our species in Africa, the exact character of that climate change and its…
May 17, 2021 Tropical cyclones are scarce in the Arabian Sea, but unusually warm ocean temperatures helped fuel this storm. An unusually powerful tropical cyclone…
Today, Antarctic winds usually blow from the continent out to the sea. Credit: Svein Østerhu The Antarctic ice sheet was even more unstable in the…
Analysis of the first super slow motion recordings of upward flashes suggests a possible explanation for the formation of luminous structures after electrical discharges split…
April 19, 2021 The super typhoon reached extreme intensity earlier in the year than any storm in the satellite era. Surigae is not expected to…
If global warming continues unchecked, summer monsoon rainfall in India will become stronger and more erratic. This is the central finding of an analysis by…
April 11, 2021 The category three cyclone made a rare landfall in Western Australia, causing significant damage to coastal towns. On April 11, 2021, a…