Climatology & Meteorology

Seeing the Hurricane Harvey path, one can understand how it became our nation's costliest natural disaster. Hurricane Harvey's damage affected more than a dozen states and cost nearly $200 billion. The devastating results of 2018's Hurricane Michael in Florida may well exceed Harvey's record.

Hurricanes are one of the most common natural disasters to happen near ocean waters. They can be very destructive dependent on category and location.

Health risks that arise due to human activities can be as subtle as sub-clinical effects, and can lead to severe of impaired pulmonary function and physiological changes in the cardiovascular system.

In 2 years, we saw five disastrous hurricanes; Harvey, Irma, Maria, Florence, and Michael. How might Climate Change Cause Hurricanes to Become More Common? Read more to find out.

Hurricane season officially lasts until late November. Though the last six weeks are not overly abundant with these storms, deadly hurricanes can still occur in October, November, and even December.

Instead of irregularities in Earth's orbit, temperature changes are now caused by changes in atmospheric greenhouse gasses released by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels.

Our appetites for meat and dairy are, indirectly, adding significantly to global warming.

Our television sets are covered with news stories about hurricanes right now, but today's storms can't compare to those of yesterday.

While just about everybody celebrates the arrival of the four seasons according to the calendar, there's a group of scientists who see the seasons differently. Read on.

NOAA is a scientific agency with almost 12,000 personnel globally. With this kind of scope, they have the manpower and the means to make some stunning discoveries.

Hurricanes bring high winds and flooding. They also display more unusual natural phenomena many of us rarely see. I share 4 unusual natural phenomena I've witnessed during hurricanes.

For eons agriculturalists have been fighting what they call "bacterial speck" on tomatoes and other crop plants, without anyone realizing that the same bacteria is at the heart of rain and snow.

A handy guide for identifying various types of clouds including information on what makes clouds look different, which are responsible for storms, and how some clouds can help in predicting weather.

Real Green solutions come from deep thinking about the causes of problems we created over centuries. Natural crises have deep roots in human actions.

The ionosphere is a layer of the earth that is electrified; this permits the refraction and reflection of radio waves throughout the planet

The practice of cloud seeding (weather manipulation) for rain has spread throughout the world during the 50 years since its methods were first discovered. What does it look like now as an industry?