The aftermath of a tornado south of Birmingham, Alabama on March 25, when forecasters were urging that nobody but emergency officials and media in the affected region access the NWS Chat Service, lest it crash.Photo: Butch Dill (AP) The National Weather Service experienced multiple outages of major systems on Tuesday, taking its public-facing meteorological forecasts …
An iceberg in western Greenland.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) Increasing geologic evidence suggests that the Arctic was once a lot warmer than it is today, which means big trouble as we continue to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere with abandon. The latest development is a study published Wednesday in Science Advances, which uses geologic …
Sound travels faster and farther underwater because it’s denser than air, and that can make it harder for researchers trying to study marine life who get an early heads up to go into hiding. But a new underwater robot could move stealthily through the waves using a propulsion system that doesn’t rely on a propeller …
Image: NOAA Satellite and Information Service And here’s the last Valentine we have, folks. I must admit, while I love the Valentine itself, I don’t think NESDIS was in a rhyming mood when it made this one. I mean, we all know by now what NESDIS can do. Find the Valentine on Twitter here. Yet, …