Our First Good Weather News All Summer
It’s the summer of apocalypse weather with wildfires, heat waves, and drought. But it looks like we could be granted a reprieve from the fourth horseman of the weather apocalypse—hurricanes.
Scientists Terrorized Lizards With a Leaf Blower to Study Natural Selection
I’m not sure if lizards can experience PTSD, but if they can, I have every reason to believe this science experiment induced it.
This Tiny, Sad Sack of Clouds Is the Atlantic's First Hurricane of the Season
The first hurricane of Atlantic hurricane season is here. You just have to squint to see it.
Hurricanes Aren’t Moving as Fast as They Used to, and That's Bad
The pace at which hurricanes move across the planet is slowing, according to new research. This suggests Hurricane Harvey, which stalled over Texas last summer, may not have been an anomaly, and that highly destructive, slow-moving tropical storms are becoming more common.
A Recent Hurricane Shot a Bolt of Antimatter Toward Earth
When you think of an alien world, you might think of a strange, stormy place with an inhospitable environment, frequent lightning strikes, and extreme radiation. But who needs an imagination when the storms here on Earth already beam radiation, including antimatter, down toward the ground?
Strong Hurricanes Intensify Faster Now Than They Did in the 1980s
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was brutal, featuring strong weather systems that morphed into severe and treacherous hurricanes in a remarkably short period of time. This phenomenon, known as rapid intensification, is now happening with greater ferocity than it did three decades ago, according to new research.
Listen to the Haunting Sounds of Puerto Rican Wildlife During Hurricane Maria
The 2017 hurricane system left a trail of destruction across the Caribbean. But less obvious than what last year’s most powerful storms did to natural landscapes is the effect they had on natural soundscapes.
Ancient Shipwrecks Are a Treasure Trove of Climate Data
Thousands of sailors perished in stormy seas throughout the Caribbean in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Surely they would never have guessed that their terrifying ends would help scientists in the future. But creative researchers have found a link between historic Spanish shipwrecks, hurricanes, and the climate.
Lion Forge's New Benefit Anthology Is a Love Letter To Puerto Rico
Even though the news cycle has moved on and shifted the focus away from Puerto Rico, the island is still struggling to recover from hurricanes Irma and Maria that ravaged the island, killed hundreds, and left over a million people without power. Though many have forgotten Puerto Rico, Lion Forge hasn’t.
Stunning Aerosol Visualization Accidentally Captures the Ferocity of This Year’s Hurricane Season
A new simulation produced by NASA’s Data Visualization Studio packs four months of swirling atmospheric activity into a two minute clip that reminds us how unrelenting this past hurricane season really was.
This NASA Animation Is Like a Van Gogh Painting of Our Recent Hellish Weather
For a while, it felt like the weather disasters were never going to stop.
Could a Rogue State Use Geoengineering to Mess With Hurricanes?
Climate change impacts are felt disproportionately around the globe. And it turns out geoengineering—the most radical, and potentially ill-advised solution to climate change—could further turn the world’s weather on its head.
Reminder: The U.S. Virgin Islands Are Still in Crisis
Remember the U.S. Virgin Islands? Y’know, those little islands that sit in the Caribbean Sea not far at all from Puerto Rico? National attention has largely ignored these islands and their American citizens since Hurricanes Irma and Maria. So, we thought you might need a reminder that they’re still in crisis.
Former Hurricane Ophelia Is Making London Look Pretty Apocalyptic Right Now
If you’re in London right now you might want to look out your window. It’s disturbing to say the least.
Why a Bizarre Ex-Hurricane Is Pounding Ireland
The extraordinary 2017 hurricane season continues apace this week, as Ireland braces against the remnants of hurricane—yes, hurricane—Ophelia, whose fierce winds reached the country’s southern coast Monday morning. Ophelia astounded meteorologists on Saturday when it intensified into a Category 3 hurricane farther…
Mark Zuckerberg Took a Tour of Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico in 'Magical' VR
On Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promoted the social media giant’s new Facebook Spaces app, which allows users to remotely cast cartoon avatars of themselves walking around locations in the real world, by taking a “magical” tour of Puerto Rico.
Hurricane Nate Sets Record for Most Consecutive Atlantic Hurricanes Since at Least 1893
Tropical Depression Nate, the former hurricane which pummeled the Gulf Coast near Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama at Category 1 status early Sunday, has made the 2017 hurricane season one of the worst on record since 1893 and possibly earlier.
Alphabet's X Approved to Deploy Project Loon LTE Balloons to Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands
Project Loon, the former Google X Lab enterprise to provide mobile data to rural areas and disaster zones via high-altitude weather balloons now run by Google’s parent company Alphabet, may soon get another major test drive.
Nervous Gulf Coast States Brace for Yet Another Hurricane (Updated)
In what has become a numbing succession of severe storms, tropical storm Nate has emerged in the southwest Caribbean. The storm, which has already produced deadly flash flooding and mudslides in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Honduras, is expected to intensify into a Category 1 Hurricane and reach the US Gulf Coast early…
Scientific Community Mobilizes to Restore Famous Undersea Lab Damaged by Irma
Undersea laboratories feel more like a science fiction trope than a real thing, but the world is home to one such fantastical structure, a marine science laboratory called Aquarius located 3.5 miles off Key Largo, an island in the Florida Keys, and 62 feet underwater. It was badly damaged by Hurricane Irma, but in the…
