A storm system moving into the Pacific Northwest will bring afternoon wind and high fire danger Wednesday through Saturday. It will also shove our heat wave high pressure system back into the Pacific, resulting in temperatures cooling into the upper 80s by the holiday weekend. Happy Weather! Chuck
The tornado that hit Joplin, Mo., a year ago took 161 lives, injured hundreds more and destroyed thousands of homes and buildings. It also fractured the landscape of the city, and opened the door to a massive rebuilding and...
Tuesday, January 3 2012 6:36 PM EST2012-01-03 23:36:06 GMT
Here are some terms commonly used by the First Alert Weather Team. Atmosphere The blanket of air surrounding earth. Cold Front The leading edge of a cold air mass that is displacing the warmer air
Tuesday, May 22 2012 7:35 AM EDT2012-05-22 11:35:06 GMT
Portions of this story are from the Tucson National Weather Service.A near record high of 105 forecasted for Tucson today. The record high is 107 set in 2005. Even though the forecast is just shy of
Monday is in the top 10 earliest 105 days on record.
Thursday, May 17 2012 2:20 PM EDT2012-05-17 18:20:59 GMT
The following is a news release from NASA.Mt. St. Helens exploded 32 years ago on May 18. It began with a small series of earthquakes and culminated with the volcano erupting, a cataclysmic collapse
Check out year-by-year video of the flora growing back on Mt. St. Helens.
Wednesday, May 16 2012 1:35 PM EDT2012-05-16 17:35:59 GMT
The following is a news release from NASA.Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the
The real Curiosity is set to land on Mars on August 5th. To practice driving Curiosity remotely, NASA scientists took a copy to the Mojave for testing.
Monday, May 14 2012 2:32 PM EDT2012-05-14 18:32:46 GMT
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon. Vesta
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has provided researchers with the first orbital analysis of the giant asteroid Vesta, yielding new insights into its creation and kinship with terrestrial planets and Earth's moon.
Saturday, May 12 2012 2:22 PM EDT2012-05-12 18:22:19 GMT
The Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field campaign will use an airport in Salina, Kan., as a base to explore the impact of large thunderstorms on the concentration of ozone and other substances
NASA researchers are about to fly off on a campaign that will take them into the heart of thunderstorm country.
Friday, May 11 2012 11:53 AM EDT2012-05-11 15:53:55 GMT
Check out this fun interactive website. http://htwins.net/scale2/ You can scroll through the scale of the universe. It starts at the human size and you can go up or down from there. And if you click
You can scroll through the scale of the universe. It starts at the human size and you can go up or down from there.
Thursday, May 10 2012 1:46 PM EDT2012-05-10 17:46:09 GMT
The following is a news release from the University of Arizona. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, has revealed that movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large
The movement in sand dune fields on the Red Planet occurs on a surprisingly large scale, about the same as in dune fields on Earth.
Saturday, May 5 2012 2:08 PM EDT2012-05-05 18:08:52 GMT
The traditional way to measure temperatures on Earth is with a thermometer, and the World Meteorological Organization, the U.S. National Weather Service, and other scientific institutions have established
NASA's Aqua satellite gives us a new way to find the hottest spots on earth.
Friday, May 4 2012 10:37 AM EDT2012-05-04 14:37:15 GMT
Source: NASA
The following is a news release from NASA. Driven by southwesterly winter winds, dust from the White Sands dune field in New Mexico rises thousands of feet from the valley floor and drifts over the snowy
Driven by gusty winter winds, dust from the White Sands dune field in New Mexico rises thousands of feet from the valley floor and drifts over the snowy peaks of the Sacramento Mountains.
Wednesday, May 2 2012 4:37 PM EDT2012-05-02 20:37:30 GMT
Astronomers have gathered the most direct evidence yet of a supermassive black hole shredding a star that wandered too close. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Pan-STARRS1 telescope on the summit
When a black hole get hold of a star that comes too close, the results are spectacular.
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