The weather, currently. Just like Earth, the Sun has an atmosphere and weather. Right now the sun's weather is becoming super active, with new sunspots and solar flares happening almost every day. The sun is now approaching the peak of Solar cycle 25, which means that for the next 2-4
The weather, currently. There's no end in sight to the stretch of warm and dry late spring weather across the northern states, including the Northeast. It'll be a picture-perfect holiday weekend for a huge swath of the country. The month of May will end on a warm and dry note,
The weather, currently. After his laughably awkward launch of his presidential campaign on Twitter, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis went on Fox News and was asked about the role of climate change. "The hurricanes have not increased in number," DeSantis said, which is of course wrong and will keep getting wronger
The weather, currently. Super Typhoon Mawar has made a direct hit on Guam, the US territory about 3,000 miles west of Hawaii. Mawar packed sustained winds of 160 mph and estimated storm surge of 6 to 10 feet on exposed coastlines, enough to cause catastrophic damage. According to meteorologist
The weather, currently. The federal government temporarily pushed pause on the Colorado River crisis on Monday, agreeing to more than $1B in payments to Nevada, Arizona, and California as well as tribes and landowners in the region in exchange for a promise to stop using so much water. The agreement
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The weather, currently. Smoke continues to pour out of northern Canada towards cities and towns across central North America. This year's fires in Alberta have so far burned around 800,000 hectares, or about the size of the US state of Delaware. That's about seven times more than typical for
The weather, currently. This year's superbloom of wildflowers in California has been epic. Brought on by unusually high snowfall and a wet winter that has also meant catastrophic flooding, it has created what Atmos magazine's Jasmine Hardy calls "blissonance", the coexistence of beauty and destruction brought on by climate change.
The weather, currently. On Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organization declared that for the first time ever, the world is now more likely than not to reach warming of 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial levels within the next five years. On top of that, an exceptionally warm start to the
The weather, currently. Not going to lie, I had a distressing weather experience today here in Minneapolis. About 10:30 am, a thick band of smoke passed over the city from the massive Canadian wildfires, about 2,000 miles away to the northwest. Walking outside, it felt cool, like a
The weather, currently. Seattle recorded its fourth consecutive record high temperature on Monday — after reaching 89 degrees F over the weekend, the hottest temperature ever recorded before May 15th in the city's history. Nearby Portland, Oregon has recorded three consecutive days of 90 degrees or higher. Such temperatures are 20-30
The weather, currently. Cyclone Mocha (pronounced Mok-ha) made landfall early Monday on the border of Bangladesh and Burma as one of the strongest storms ever measured in the Indian Ocean. Locals are bracing for a humanitarian emergency. Like so many tropical cyclones in recent years, Mocha rapidly intensified in the
The weather, currently. Wildfire smoke from near the northern Canadian Rockies has travelled thousands of miles via the jet stream to the skies over the Northeast United States. This isn't an unusual occurrence in the era of megafires and dry summers, smoky skies from distant burning forests happens almost every
The weather, currently. Showers and thunderstorms are rolling through the South early this week. In Nashville, Monday night's Taylor Swift concert was delayed by four hours. After wind and lightning arrived like "hi, I'm the problem, it's me" and lashed the crowd in conditions some called "hellish", Swift emerged to
The weather, currently. When it comes to the trust Americans have in their news sources, nothing beats meteorologists. On Monday, YouGov released its annual Trust in Media report, and the Weather Channel took top honors. It wasn't even close. This is hugely encouraging when it comes climate action. Hardly anyone
The weather, currently. In Alberta, Canada, lingering drought and a warmer-than-normal Spring have combined to fan massive early-season wildfires across the province. On Saturday, provincial premier Danielle Smith declared a state of emergency. Nearly 25,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes. Conditions are ripe for the fires,
The weather, currently. Europe has a brand-new weather satellite, and its first images are stunning. The hopes are that it will bring a forecasting revolution to Africa, too. The new satellite, Meteosat-12, was launched back in December and is still in the testing phase, but the very first public images
The weather, currently. La Niña has ended, and an El Niño is beginning to brew in the tropical Pacific Ocean, according to a new statement from the World Meteorological Organization. El Niño is a periodic warming of ocean temperatures across the equatorial region of the Pacific, leading to coral bleaching,
The weather, currently. It's getting to be that time when even those of us in colder climates can safely think about planting the vegetable garden. Currently's Sven Sundgaard says that although the average last frost date in Minneapolis is around May 14 (after which there's only about a 10% of
The weather, currently. If you're in the Midwest, you probably noticed it was VERY windy on Monday. That's not super unusual this time of the year, and it makes sense when you think about what wind actually is: Air moving from an area of higher pressure to an area of
The weather, currently. Happy May Day! So far this Spring has been a weird one in the United States, with trees leafing out either waaaay early (if you're in the Southeast) or waaaay late (if you're out West). That tracks with the wild Winter we've had too that left most
