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Giant 'Saharan dust' plume swirls around Africa a week before it hit FloridaEarth from space A recent satellite photo captured a giant comma-shaped cloud of "Saharan dust" being blown above the Atlantic Ocean. The hazy mass hit North America a week later.
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Tropical storm Alvin will form in next 48 hours, forecasters say — kicking off this year's Pacific hurricane seasonA tropical storm is brewing over the Eastern Pacific south of Acapulco. Clouds and thunderstorms that have been gathering for days will organize in the next 48 hours and could develop into a hurricane.
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'Above normal' conditions could bring as many as 10 hurricanes to the US this summerHurricane Helene captured by NOAA's GOES-16 satellite as it approached Florida on September 26, 2024.
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What's an 'omega block,' and why is it messing with US weather right now?A strange atmospheric pattern known as an "omega block" is preventing the usual eastward progression of weather across the U.S. — but what is this weird block, and when will it go away?
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La Niña is dead — what that means for this year's hurricanes and weatherScientists thought La Niña was coming. It didn't — at least for now. What could that mean for this year's hurricane season, and how might long-term climate change affect El Niño and La Niña patterns?
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La Niña finished after just a few monthsThe La Niña weather pattern ended last month as Pacific Ocean temperatures rose and the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle entered a neutral state, according to the NOAA.
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'Major disruption' has caused Arctic polar vortex to slide off North Pole, scientists sayA sudden stratospheric warming event reversed the winds that make up the northern polar vortex on March 9. A new animation shows the vortex also moved away from the Arctic towards Europe.
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1-in-1,000-year flood about to hit central USForecasters have warned of historic flooding in the central US this week, anticipating multiple bouts of heavy rainfall and extreme thunderstorms.
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Scientists drilled into Belize's Great Blue Hole and discovered a worrying trendTropical storms have been steadily increasing in frequency over the past 5,700 years, new evidence from sediment in the Great Blue Hole reveals, with a massive spike in the past two decades.
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