Gift ideas for weather geeks
The holiday season is here, and you might know somebody who would appreciate a weather-related gift, but you don’t know where to start. After all,...
If you like pumpkin pie, you care about the weather here
Illinois isn’t just the Land of Lincoln; it could also be called the Land of Pumpkins. The state grows more than a quarter of the...
Is Florida truly the Sunshine State?
We all know Florida as the Sunshine State, but is it really the sunniest place in the U.S.? A quick search online and you find...
How to adapt to colder extremes
I moved to Wisconsin after living in the state of Louisiana for 15 years. While there, I met my wife and had kids all in that same warm...
Leonid meteor shower peaks Thursday night to Friday morning
Stargazers often consider the Leonid meteor shower as a sleepy one when it comes to other showers. However, it has an interesting history of bucking...
How rare was Hurricane Nicole?
With Hurricane Nicole in our recent memory, it begs the question: was it really a rarity? Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 through Nov....
How NASA’s Cold Atom Lab is defying gravity
One lab at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California is literally trying to defy gravity. The Cold Atom Lab (CAL) at JPL allows scientists...
Who bad weather favors on Election Day
There’s a reason Election Day is on the first Tuesday of November. And it has (just about) everything to do with the weather. Election Day...
Nicole forms northeast of the Bahamas
Subtropical Storm Nicole formed in the southwestern Atlantic on the morning of Nov. 7, becoming the fourteenth named storm of the season. What You Need...
Central Florida felt a bit cooler in October
Over the past few years, October in Orlando has been much warmer than average. In fact, until this October, the past four Octobers have been...