Tag: Weather
The Weather Expert Who Answered the $64,000 Question
In the mid-1940s then teenager June Bacon-Bercey saw the image of a nuclear explosion on the cover of Time magazine and immediately had...
Aayush Sharma Turns Reporter, Shares Mumbai Weather Update With Wife Arpita...
New Delhi: Mumbai monsoon is in full swing! And actor Aayush Sharma has turned into a playful reporter, sharing weather updates with his...
The National Weather Service Is Understaffed and Underfunded. Here’s Why That...
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.About 317 billion times per year members of the U.S. public check the weather...
How Doppler Radar Lets Meteorologists Predict Weather and Save Lives
Outside every National Weather Service (NWS) office around the U.S. stands what looks like an enormous white soccer ball, perched atop metal scaffolding...
Hurricane Season Is Soon—NOAA Says It’s Ready, but Weather Experts Are...
CLIMATEWIRE | The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration insists it’s ready for the above-average hurricane season that meteorologists expect this summer.But scientists across...
How Trump’s National Weather Service Cuts Could Cost Lives
Just more than 100 years ago, on March 18, 1925, a tornado slashed across the U.S. Midwest with no warning at all and...
Fatal Storm Rips Through Oklahoma and Texas, Flooding Roads
A slow-moving storm brought deadly flooding to Oklahoma on Wednesday, shutting down roadways and sweeping away cars.Parts of Oklahoma and Texas were expected...
Trump Cuts Threaten Key NOAA Work to Improve Weather Forecasts and...
CLIMATEWIRE | Researchers in Oklahoma are hard at work on a new lifesaving weather forecasting system. In Michigan, they’re keeping tabs on toxic...