Tag: weather
Policy, shmolicy: Election Day weather and football victories could decide the election
Bad weather, including rain or snow, tends to suppress voter turnout. Gregory Adams/Moment/Getty Images
Mark Robert Rank, Arts...
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
4 factors driving 2023’s extreme heat and climate disasters
Michael Wysession, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
Between the record-breaking global heat and extreme downpours,...
What is a heat dome? An atmospheric scientist explains the weather...
William Gallus, Iowa State University
A heat dome occurs when a persistent region of high...
El Niño is back – that’s good news or bad news,...
Bob Leamon, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
El Niño is officially here, and while it’s still weak right now,...
Farmers face a soaring risk of flash droughts in every major...
Jeff Basara, University of Oklahoma and Jordan Christian, University of Oklahoma
Flash droughts develop fast, and when they hit...
Cloud seeding can increase rain and snow, and new techniques may...
Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation
When an unexpected rainstorm leaves you soaking wet, it is...
Epic snow from all those atmospheric rivers in the West is...
Chad Hecht, University of California, San Diego
To get a sense of the enormous amount of water atmospheric rivers...
EXPLORING NATURE
I’ve visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a...
Julian Resasco, University of Colorado Boulder
Imagine a bee crawling into a bright yellow flower.
This...
