Humidity is on the rise today, and the increased atmospheric moisture content led to the development of showers and storms throughout the area this afternoon. This will be the story of the next few days, as atmospheric disturbances provide sufficient lift for the development of precipitation within a moist and moderately unstable environment. While no […]
For most of us on Earth, this will be our last chance to see a new planet for the first time up close and personal. Today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will finally make its pass nearest to Pluto, the much debated and no longer official planet. New Horizons has spent the past 9 years in […]
Severe weather season is kicking up, and today could feature a dangerous outbreak of storms over the Midwest and North/Eastern Plains states toward parts of the Mississippi River Valley. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a large “Moderate Risk” for severe thunderstorms in those areas, the second highest risk category they use (only High Risk […]
Tropical Storm Claudette formed this afternoon, amid a noticeably quiet Atlantic Hurricane Season, to the south of Nantucket. Claudette had been monitored by the National Hurricane Center for the past several days as a potential disturbance, and today it obtained the tropical characteristics necessary to be classified as a Tropical Storm with maximum sustained winds […]