There will be no clouds over Moscow on May Day—because military planes will spray them with liquid nitrogen, granulated carbon dioxide and special cement, miles before they ever get to the city. The chemically perforated sky pests will then either immediately disperse or void themselves first, deluging premature…
Animal legs! Weather extremes! Planet surfaces! Astronaut man! Dark things! Bee teams! Bio touch! And liquids that may or may not be of benefit to one and all! It’s your periodic Science Watch, where we watch science—without ever touching the ground!
A total of 19 people died in weather-related incidents this weekend, after an enormous blizzard swept across the eastern half of the U.S.
A series of tornadoes sweeping across the U.S. left ten people dead this week, and more warnings are expected for the weekend.
We’ve all been naughty over the past century, and we’re finally getting coal (emissions) this Christmas.
The weather doesn’t care how you feel about it. So the question of how you ought to feel about the weather—specifically, about the wave of warmth that covered the eastern United States this past weekend, and that promises to linger through Christmas—is a human question. What does a warm December signify?
At least 13 people were killed when a tornado struck the Mexican border city of Ciudad Acuna on Monday, NBC News reports. The tornado, which flipped cars, destroyed homes, and ripped an infant—still missing—from its mother’s arms. At least 230 people were injured.
90 degrees and above is hot
A 28-year-old Queens man died yesterday from gunshot wounds he sustained on Friday, the New York Times reports. So ends New York City's longest stretch without a new homicide—12 days—since the police department began tracking such data in 1994.
Freezing rain and icy roads contributed to several large pileups and fatal accidents across the northeast Sunday, leaving at least five motorists dead and dozens more injured.
"What the f***?! Oh sh**!" On Friday, Los Angeles was hit with a tornado for the first time since 2004, The Washington Post reports, an event captured on camera in a heavily bleeped home video.
The expected Thanksgiving snowstorm isn't here yet, but the collapse of everyone's holiday travel plans is already underway, with Delta reporting "57 cancels planned for New York area tomorrow morning." See you in the Lincoln Tunnel!
Can you tell what's going on in this photo? You can't, because everything is covered in fucking snow. It was taken in Buffalo, New York, yesterday, near where dozens of people have spent the past 35 hours trapped in their cars on Interstate 90.
Climate change is causing rising oceans and more extreme weather. Even as beachfront development continues, beachfront living is growing ever more perilous. What happens when all the insurance companies decide to stop insuring anything by a beach?
While attempting to tell the people of Edmonton, Canada what their weather forecast for the week looked like (note: horrible), one weatherman was left to deal with a scrappy dog who was having none of it. I'm a dog. I don't even get what he's saying. Let's play.
Ever since TV meteorologists gained the power to draw on their digital maps, they've been inadvertently—and sometimes intentionally—drawing dicks. Jimmy Kimmel finally caught onto this long-running phenomenon and assigned a staffer to cover the rapidly expanding weatherdick beat.
If you've felt a bit sweaty lately, it may be because our planet officially just experienced the hottest summer in recorded history. We must end global warming. But not before it reaches New York City for a while, because the summer here was cold as hell.
A lightning strike in Venice Beach, Los Angeles yesterday killed a 20-year-old man and injured 13 others, one critically. Firefighters believe lightning struck the ocean and spread through the water, ABC reports.
A 70-foot yacht competing in the Clipper Round the World Race was sailing in the Pacific Ocean north of Papua New Guinea when it was hit with a surprise 115 mile-per-hour wind. In short order, the boat was on its side, and crew members were tumbling into the water.
