Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (AP) – Tropical storms have flooded cities in South Florida since then, flooding some cities and flooding some homes with rising water that didn’t flood for hours. It was the 28th hurricane during the busy hurricane season, and the first landfall in Florida. The year set a …
Read More »As our planet warms, astronomers warn that our view of space is becoming blurred
The world’s most advanced telescopes weren’t built for today’s temperatures, and they mess with our observations of the night sky. Three decades of value data – the home of the Paranal Observatory (the European Southern Observatory’s very large telescope (VLT)) in northern Chile – reveals many ways in which climate …
Read More »The bright New Hubble photo displays the stormy side of Jupiter
The big brother Majestic Jupiter is pushing the best side of our solar system. A sharp new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the vast, ever-evolving climate of a giant planet – showing both short- and long-term changes. In the Northern Hemisphere, storm clouds may indicate the formation of …
Read More »Marco becomes hurricane en route to U.S. Gulf Coast
PORT-AU PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Marco was hit by a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday en route to the coast of Louisiana, when Tropical Storm Laura killed at least seven people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Laura went over Cuba before his path probably took him …
Read More »Tropical Storm Laura intensifies and shifts as it targets U.S. coast
On Friday morning, hurricane fighters flying east of Puerto Rico to investigate Tropical Depression 13 found that the system has now been strengthened enough to be designated as Tropical Storm Laura. And, in a major development, the center of the system has reformed much further south, changing its likely trajectory …
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