Tag : Weather Stories

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

1 year ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago

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…

2 years ago