The full ‘Cold Moon’ makes Mars disappear on Dec. 7
December’s full moon happens the night of Wednesday, Dec. 7, and it’ll perform a disappearing act with Mars for many North America skywatchers. What You...
2022 Atlantic hurricane season in review
Now that the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season has wrapped up, we can look back at the season and see how it stacks up to the...
The shocking science about static electricity during winter
The other day I was shopping at the grocery store. When I reached for a bag of potatoes, I felt a burst of static electricity....
Deadline for NOAA’s 2023 Urban Heat Island program nears
If it felt hotter for you this summer than normal, you’re not wrong. The period of June to Aug. 2022 was the second-hottest meteorological summer...
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...
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 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...