A brief spell of sunny winter weather in California will come to an end this week with a series of storms cued up to bring snow and rain to parts of the state over the next few days. After a weak storm kicks off the week with light rain in Southern California, a stronger and…
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the nation’s premier agency for weather and climate science, is set to lose another 1,000 workers under the Trump administration’s downsizing of the federal government. The new dismissals would come in addition to the roughly 1,300 NOAA staff members who have already resigned or been laid off in recent…
A rare tropical cyclone is heading towards Australia’s eastern coast, potentially bringing destructive winds and dangerous storm surges. Tropical Cyclone Alfred is expected to make landfall near Brisbane, Australia’s third most populous city, late on Friday or early on Saturday. This is the first cyclone to hit the city of 2.5 million people in more…
Twice a day for years, meteorologists in Kotzebue, Alaska, have launched weather balloons far into the sky to measure data like wind speed, humidity and temperature, and translated the information the balloons sent back into weather forecasts and models. It’s a ritual repeated at dozens of weather stations around the United States. On Thursday morning,…
These should be wonderful times at Finca El Puente, a coffee plantation carved into the mountains of southwestern Honduras. On world markets, the price of ordinary coffee has more than doubled over the past year. The specialty varieties of coffee harvested at the farm have long commanded a hefty premium, reflecting their status as the…
EXPLAINER Delta flight 4819 originating from Minnesota crash lands at Toronto airport amid strong winds and snowstorm but all 80 survive. A Delta Airlines plane has crash-landed in Toronto, Canada’s largest city, but all 80 people on board have survived. At least 18 people were injured after the plane flipped upside down as it landed…
Dead include mother and seven-year-old daughter swept away in rains in Kentucky. At least nine people have died after harsh winter weather struck the United States, including eight people in Kentucky as a result of heavy rains. The state’s governor, Andy Beshear, said on Sunday that hundreds of people stranded by flooding had to be…
A large swath of California was bracing Thursday for an intense bout of rain that could lead to flooding and cause debris flows in areas recently burned by wildfires. The Southern California regions scorched by flames last month were of particular concern because the soil in those areas can repel water and allow sheets of…
Australian emergency services warn of potential threat to life and have issued shelter and evacuation warnings as cyclone is due to make landfall. A Category 5 tropical cyclone – the strongest on the scale with the capacity to cause widespread destruction – is bearing down on the Pilbara coastal region in Western Australia, the Australian…
Two months ago, the Biden administration announced an initiative to share satellite data with Central American countries including Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador to help them prepare for severe storms. The goal was twofold. In a region vulnerable to hurricanes and other calamities made worse by a warming climate, reducing the damage would help ease…
