Update: Tropical Storm Dorian Strengthens as It Heads Toward Barbados August 26, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Tropical Storm Dorian is gaining strength as it approaches the Lesser Antilles and is forecast to skirt Puerto Rico as...
Real Hurricane ‘Season Within a Season’ About to Begin August 15, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Don’t be lulled by a quiet June and July, the real Atlantic hurricane season is about to kick off. The...
Typhoon Lekima to Weaken Before Hitting Shanghai this Weekend August 8, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan A storm swirling over the Pacific Ocean east of Taiwan is threatening to become a super typhoon before weakening and...
Artificial Intelligence Helps to Contain Wildfires, Predict Wild Weather August 5, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan On a tower in the Brazilian rainforest, a sentinel scans the horizon for the first signs of fire. Only these...
Vast Sahara Dust Cloud Hinders Formation of Tropical Storms in Atlantic August 3, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Dry air from the Sahara that’s carrying enough dust it can be seen from space is preventing thunderstorms over the...
UK Recorded Highest-Ever Temperature in Last Week’s Heatwave July 30, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan The U.K. was never hotter. Last week temperatures reached 101.6 degrees Fahrenheit (38.7 Celsius) at the Cambridge Botanic Garden on...
Now a Tropical Storm, Barry Takes Aim at Louisiana July 11, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and could strike Louisiana as a hurricane Saturday, causing almost $1...
As Gulf Storm Bears Down, New Orleans Faced with Threat of Two-Sided Flood July 10, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan New Orleans is under the threat of floods from two fronts as the Mississippi River could jump to its highest...
Nobody Seems to Know Why Hail Storm Losses Suddenly Began Rising in 2008 June 17, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan In 2008, the year the stock market crashed and Barack Obama won the presidency, the U.S. was hit with a...
California Heat Stokes Fire Risk, Residents Asked to Curb Power Use June 12, 2019 By Brian K. Sullivan A second day of unrelenting heat is scorching California, sending temperatures to near record levels, raising risk of wildfires and...