This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Share(This article, first published on Monday afternoon, was updated Tuesday midday.)A nearly 4,000-mile-long plume of thick dust from the Sahara Desert that arrived in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba is forecast to move into the Gulf of Mexico, inland from Texas to the lower Mississippi River Valley Thursday and Friday, before reaching Washington this weekend.The plume is part of a phenomena that develops every year off the coast of Africa, known as the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), but the current one is unusually intense and is...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift Share(This article, first published on Monday afternoon, was updated Tuesday midday.)A nearly 4,000-mile-long plume of thick dust from the Sahara Desert that arrived in Puerto Rico, Hispaniola and Cuba is forecast to move into the Gulf of Mexico, inland from Texas to the lower Mississippi River Valley Thursday and Friday, before reaching Washington this weekend.The plume is part of a phenomena that develops every year off the coast of Africa, known as the Saharan Air Layer (SAL), but the current one is unusually intense and is...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareRecord high temperatures have been plaguing the Middle East, the mercury soaring to extreme levels during a blistering and unforgiving heat wave. Baghdad surged to its highest temperature ever recorded Tuesday.Tuesday’s in Iraq’s capital city shatters its previous record of 123.8 degrees set on July 30, 2015, for any day of the year.On Wednesday, Baghdad followed up with aof 124 degrees, its second-highest temperature on record. On Monday, it had reached .The crippling heat forced many residents indoors, and street...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareRecord high temperatures have been plaguing the Middle East, the mercury soaring to extreme levels during a blistering and unforgiving heat wave. Baghdad surged to its highest temperature ever recorded Tuesday.Tuesday’s in Iraq’s capital city shatters its previous record of 123.8 degrees set on July 30, 2015, for any day of the year.On Wednesday, Baghdad followed up with aof 124 degrees, its second-highest temperature on record. On Monday, it had reached .The crippling heat forced many residents indoors, and street...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe day after the Commerce Department inspector general released the results of an into President Trump’s inaccurate statements regarding Hurricane Dorian last September, Trump sent a problematic tweet about the path of Tropical Storm Fay.The tweet, posted just after 1 p.m. Friday, said that the storm, making landfall in New Jersey, was headed toward the “Great State of New Hamphire,” justifying the rescheduling of a campaign rally on Saturday evening in Portsmouth. Yet the National Hurricane Center only included the very...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe day after the Commerce Department inspector general released the results of an into President Trump’s inaccurate statements regarding Hurricane Dorian last September, Trump sent a problematic tweet about the path of Tropical Storm Fay.The tweet, posted just after 1 p.m. Friday, said that the storm, making landfall in New Jersey, was headed toward the “Great State of New Hamphire,” justifying the rescheduling of a campaign rally on Saturday evening in Portsmouth. Yet the National Hurricane Center only included the very...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article, first published Wednesday, was updated Thursday.On Monday evening, a violent, fast-moving thunderstorm complex known as derecho tore a 700-mile path from Nebraska to Indiana. Winds over 70 mph battered Chicago, and as of Thursday afternoon, more than 300,000 people were still without power in northern Illinois as well as Iowa, the state hardest hit.The destructive storms laid siege to more than 10 million acres of Iowa’s corn and soybean crop, devastating farmers and capping off what has already been a...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article, first published Wednesday, was updated Thursday.On Monday evening, a violent, fast-moving thunderstorm complex known as derecho tore a 700-mile path from Nebraska to Indiana. Winds over 70 mph battered Chicago, and as of Thursday afternoon, more than 300,000 people were still without power in northern Illinois as well as Iowa, the state hardest hit.The destructive storms laid siege to more than 10 million acres of Iowa’s corn and soybean crop, devastating farmers and capping off what has already been a...WW…

CommentGift ShareA historic atmospheric river drenched central and northern California Sunday with record-setting rains. The high-impact event dented the region’s drought and quelled the fire season but triggered flooding and mudslides.Up to a half-foot of rain fell at low elevations and over a foot in the mountains. Both San Francisco and Sacramento established new rainfall records for October, just after enduring a historic shortage of precipitation.At the highest elevations of the northern Sierra Nevada, multiple feet of snow fell, a crucial addition to water resources in the...…CommentGift ShareA historic atmospheric river drenched central and northern California Sunday with record-setting rains. The high-impact event dented the region’s drought and quelled the fire season but triggered flooding and mudslides.Up to a half-foot of rain fell at low elevations and over a foot in the mountains. Both San Francisco and Sacramento established new rainfall records for October, just after enduring a historic shortage of precipitation.At the highest elevations of the northern Sierra Nevada, multiple feet of snow fell, a crucial addition to water resources in the...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareSpringtime in the Last Frontier doesn’t always mean April showers. Blizzard conditions, wind chills of minus-70, and temperatures more than 40 degrees below zero are gripping the nation’s 49th state, beneath a record-cold air mass in the lower atmosphere.Alaskans have endured abnormally cold weather since February, and the intensity has set records in recent days.Temperatures on Tuesday morning fell to minus-24 degrees in Fairbanks and minus-33 in Bettles, both record lows for the date. Livengood, about 60 miles...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareSpringtime in the Last Frontier doesn’t always mean April showers. Blizzard conditions, wind chills of minus-70, and temperatures more than 40 degrees below zero are gripping the nation’s 49th state, beneath a record-cold air mass in the lower atmosphere.Alaskans have endured abnormally cold weather since February, and the intensity has set records in recent days.Temperatures on Tuesday morning fell to minus-24 degrees in Fairbanks and minus-33 in Bettles, both record lows for the date. Livengood, about 60 miles...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThe calendar may say April, but the atmosphere is saying February across much of Europe and northern Africa. A potent cold blast, accompanied in some spots by a rare late-season snowfall, will surge south to kick off the workweek, bringing a sudden seasonal reversal to some places that just observed their warmest March weather recorded.Last week, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg established record temperatures for the month of March, while stations across broader Europe and even into Asia smashed record...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThe calendar may say April, but the atmosphere is saying February across much of Europe and northern Africa. A potent cold blast, accompanied in some spots by a rare late-season snowfall, will surge south to kick off the workweek, bringing a sudden seasonal reversal to some places that just observed their warmest March weather recorded.Last week, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and Luxembourg established record temperatures for the month of March, while stations across broader Europe and even into Asia smashed record...WW…

This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThe National Weather Service experienced a major, systemwide Internet failure Tuesday morning, making its forecasts and warnings inaccessible to the public and limiting the data available to its meteorologists.The outage highlights systemic, long-standing issues with its information technology infrastructure, which the agency has struggled to address as demands for its services have only increased.In addition to Tuesday morning’s outage, the Weather Service has encountered numerous, repeated problems with its Internet...…This article was published more than 1 year agoCommentGift ShareThe National Weather Service experienced a major, systemwide Internet failure Tuesday morning, making its forecasts and warnings inaccessible to the public and limiting the data available to its meteorologists.The outage highlights systemic, long-standing issues with its information technology infrastructure, which the agency has struggled to address as demands for its services have only increased.In addition to Tuesday morning’s outage, the Weather Service has encountered numerous, repeated problems with its Internet...WW…

The National Weather Service experienced a major, systemwide internet failure Tuesday morning, making its forecasts and warnings inaccessible to the public and limiting the data available to its meteorologists.The outage highlights systemic, long-standing issues with its information technology infrastructure, which the agency has struggled to address as demands for its services have only increased.In addition to Tuesday morning's outage, the Weather Service has encountered numerous, repeated problems with its internet services in recent months, including:- A bandwidth shortage that forced...…The National Weather Service experienced a major, systemwide internet failure Tuesday morning, making its forecasts and warnings inaccessible to the public and limiting the data available to its meteorologists.The outage highlights systemic, long-standing issues with its information technology infrastructure, which the agency has struggled to address as demands for its services have only increased.In addition to Tuesday morning's outage, the Weather Service has encountered numerous, repeated problems with its internet services in recent months, including:- A bandwidth shortage that forced...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareCellphones across parts of Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas screeched with an emergency alert on Tuesday, urging residents to take shelter due to an approaching tornado and warning of “flying debris.”The alert, which may have triggered more than a million cellphones to wail, advised of a tornado warning that the National Weather Service issued. “Tornado warning” was trending on Twitter at midmorning Tuesday.The problem? The warning was a test and was never meant to alert cellphones.“Take shelter now in a basement or an...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareCellphones across parts of Arkansas, Missouri and Kansas screeched with an emergency alert on Tuesday, urging residents to take shelter due to an approaching tornado and warning of “flying debris.”The alert, which may have triggered more than a million cellphones to wail, advised of a tornado warning that the National Weather Service issued. “Tornado warning” was trending on Twitter at midmorning Tuesday.The problem? The warning was a test and was never meant to alert cellphones.“Take shelter now in a basement or an...WW…