When you're studying a wind-scoured, snow-covered patch of far south Antarctica, you may be the first person ever to set foot there. | Continue reading
Climate change is playing into the stark dryness at Victoria Falls, but not in the way you might expect. | Continue reading
Today is Jeff Masters’ final day working for Weather Underground, and he offers a retrospective look at how he got started blogging back in 2005. | Continue reading
In updates released this week, several forecast groups have raised their predicted levels of activity for the Atlantic hurricane season. | Continue reading
Our planet’s climate may be more sensitive to increases in greenhouse gas than we realized, according to a new generation of global climate models. | Continue reading
After cresting at its second-highest level in over 100 years of record-keeping earlier this year, the Lower Mississippi is once again on the rise, putting America’s Achilles’ heel—the Old River Control Structure—under unusual stress. | Continue reading
The Southeast U.S. has a protective barrier of high wind shear against hurricanes that is likely to weaken in coming decades due to global warming. | Continue reading
New research is building confidence in the ability to use radar data to estimate tornado damage potential. | Continue reading
Torrential rains in Oklahoma over the past two weeks have brought the Arkansas River in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma to its highest water level ever recorded. | Continue reading
Heavy rains from the past week of storms in the Midwest are expected to bring the Mississippi River to its 2nd highest flood on record in Louisiana in early June, forcing the Army Corps to open the Morganza Spillway for the 3rd time in history. | Continue reading
If the Old River Control Structure were to fail and allow the Mississippi River to carve a new path to the Gulf of Mexico, extremely damaging short-term and long-term impacts costing hundreds of billions of dollars would result. | Continue reading
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Earth had its fourth warmest surface temperature on record in 2018, said NOAA and NASA. The five warmest years on record are the now past five years—2016, 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2014. | Continue reading
Weather Underground provides local & long range weather forecasts, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide. | Continue reading
Weather Underground provides local & long range weather forecasts, weather reports, maps & tropical weather conditions for locations worldwide. | Continue reading
Tens of millions in hail damage can occur a year after a hailstorm, thanks to a tiny mite and a virus that attacks wheat fields.. | Continue reading
Torrential rains in China in August 1975 led to a catastrophic dam failure and one of the world's deadliest but least-known weather-related disasters of the 20th century. | Continue reading