Albuquerque Grasshopper Swarms Are Showing Up On Weather Radar
According to The National Weather Service, the worst infestation of grasshoppers to hit Albuquerque in twenty years is so dense that it's showing up on weather radars like rain.
Watch A Storm Chaser Get Struck By Lightning
Storm chaser Scott Sheppard was filming footage of a storm near Fairburn, South Dakota when he was struck by lightning. Watching the clip is an exercise in look-through-the-cracks-of-your-fingers anticipation. Do not be fooled by the rainbow in the video.
A woman builds a tower using ice from an overnight hailstorm in São Paulo, Brazil, on Monday. Some residents told local media their children had never seen hail or played in ice. Image via Nelson Antoine/AP.
Tornadoes Strike Midwest and Southern U.S., Killing at Least 17
A powerful storm sent deadly tornadoes spiraling through the central and southern United States this weekend, leaving at least 17 dead and countless others injured.
There's a lunar eclipse tonight, with totality lasting from 3:06 a.m. till 4:24 a.m. on the East Coast. Unfortunately, that's when cloud cover will be approaching totality in the East, too. So snap a picture at 12:06 a.m., California, and let us know what it looked like. We'll try again on October 8.
Today in Weather: Clouds Pussying On Shore
May people never stop saying things wrong on television. It's way too much fun.
2 People Dead in Major Southeast Rainstorms
All along the Southeast, major rainstorms and flooding have caused people to be rescued from the roofs of their homes and abandon their cars, leaving two dead in Mississippi and Alabama.
NBC News Reporter Gets His Dumb Ass Stuck in a Mudslide
Television news in the internet age may exist solely so field reporters can put themselves into harms way in order to emphasize the danger of inclement weather. Enter NBC's Miguel Almaguer, who had to be rescued yesterday from a mudslide east of Los Angeles.
[A pedestrian blocks the heavy winds with her umbrella in Los Angeles on Friday. The first wave of a powerful Pacific storm spread rain and snow through much of California, where communities endangered by a wildfire just weeks ago now faced the threat of mud and debris flows. Image via Damian Dovarganes/AP.]
Does Snow Make a City Cleaner?
Now is the time for "Hey, Science"—America's primary source of scientific education—in which we enlist real live scientific experts to answer your most most interesting and/ or inane scientific questions. Today: does snow make a city cleaner, or dirtier?
Decades of accumulated weather data show that Los Angeles, California has more pleasant days per year than any other city in America, which is all the more reason to bulldoze Los Angeles and move New York City there.
There was snow on the ground in 49 of the 50 states today. You win this round, Florida.
Chaos and Darkness Reign as Monstrous Winter Storm Tears Through East
UPDATE 8:13 am: The latest winter storm has shutdown much of Washington D.C. and paralyzed large parts of the South, including most of Georgia and the Carolinas. At least 14 people have died in the storm, and approximately 400,000 are without power.
Weather Gods Finally Drop Snow and Rain On California
A winter storm dumped 13.5 billion gallons of water in Lake Tahoe over the weekend, along with 36 inches of snow at one Sierra Nevada ski resort and more than 10 inches of rain in some parts of the Bay Area. But is the drought over? No.
Antiviral: Here Is What's Bullshit on the Internet This Week
Hey, look. The internet still has lies in it.
The Weather in the UK Is So Awful the Animals Are On Antidepressants
The weather in the UK, typically abysmal, has been even worse recently with torrential rain, forceful gale winds and massive waves pounding at the coastal areas. And it's gotten so bad that one town's zoo animals are on antidepressants.
Horrific Winter Storm In Pennsylvania: "What We See During Hurricanes"
With a million people in the dark and hundreds of trees around Philadelphia blown down, the latest winter storm looked a lot like Superstorm Sandy. "This damage is very similar to what we see during hurricanes." Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission spokeswoman Jennifer Kocher told the AP.
