Weather & Earth Science News

At least 17 reported tornadoes hit Central US during severe weather outbreak with close-up footage of Arkansas tornado Meanwhile, the temperatures hit 100 degrees in Oklahoma and Texas, as simmering summerlike heat expands across the South Yesterday saw snow and plunging temperatures across UK on first day of British Summer Time as high pressure brings winter back to Europe   - no snow here, of course! The Great Barrier Reef suffers third mass bleaching in five years And Arctic sea ice below normal despite a seasonal bump

It may be spring, but they've just has the first snow of 2020 in Majorca Something to do whilst in lockdown? Help needed to rescue UK's old rainfall records Coronavirus: Lockdowns continue to suppress European pollution whilst another interactive map shows how nitrogen dioxide levels have dropped across the US as millions stay home amid coronavirus pandemic .  But on the negative side, weather predictions being affected by coronavirus outbreak due to the fall in aircraft data to feed into models As the ocean warms, marine species relocate toward the poles And as we move to Bloody Silly Time tomorrow, a reminder that moving clocks forward an hour may be dangerous for millions of people with heart problems due to the loss of sleep .  For once though, it really won't affect me ....

Over the weekend, a 5.3 magnitude earthquake rocks Croatia's capital Zagreb Heavy snow and high winds bring storm warnings for the interior of Alaska How the right dose of geoengineering could reduce climate change risks And  east Antarctica's Denman Glacier has retreated almost 3 miles over the last 22 years

Five killed and one more missing in Indiana bridge collapse as storm stretching 1,000 miles from Texas to Ohio batters the U.S. with torrential rain, tornadoes and blizzards  Earlier in the week a 5.7 magnitude earthquake in Utah knocks out power to thousands and diverts flights And one little piece of, possibly, good news as newfound Comet ATLAS is getting really bright, really fast and could be a naked eye object by late April

Generally speaking, Mother Nature is helping us by keeping severe weather around the world to a minimum, but in the USA, ten million Americans are hit by severe storms as tornadoes flip cars in Texas, Colorado is struck by blizzard and Air Force evacuates spy planes from Nebraska base whilst one third of the lower 48 faces risk of flooding this spring, weather service says .   But at least coronavirus ends LA’s notorious smog and air pollution as people stay home and avoid roads And it's possible that coronavirus has saved 1,000s of lives in China due to decreasing pollution levels, claim experts Spanish temperatures to soar in Spring after their second warmest winter on record Flooding in northern Iraq stirs fears of landslides And new analysis suggests that the global warming influence on extreme weather events has been frequently underestimated  

Coronavirus: Air pollution and CO2 fall rapidly as virus spreads whilst Venice's canals are the cleanest they've been in living memory after coronavirus lockdown leaves water clear and fish become visible - the virus is already helping the planet heal ...... Hmmmm. Grace gravity mission captures Greenland ice loss And how Mercury's scorching daytime heat may help it make its own ice at caps

Coronavirus continues to affect the weather with few extreme events being reported around the world ..... (although to be fair this is often a quiet time of year anyway).    This is, of course, a good thing!   Last thing we need now are floods and cyclones.    But if we need some more gloomy news ..... even a limited India-Pakistan nuclear war would bring global famine, says study Researchers determine that extreme temperature events in Dublin up 20% in eight years New research first to relate Antarctic sea ice melt to weather change in tropics And hardly a surprise to find that when it comes to climate change: The rich are to blame, international study finds