While we might laugh at horror movies of hypothetical situations like Sharknado, a Firenado is no fantasy, it’s a rare but real flaming nightmare. In 2018, one equivalent to an EF3 tornado occurred in California. What is a firenado? According to the National Weather Service, a fire tornado, concatenated into a
Like the tale of the dead that won’t die, similar are zombie fires, fires that continue to burn, sometimes for years, often underground, and in some of the coldest places on the planet where temperatures can fall to -76F. What are zombie fires? As their name implies, zombie fires are
Only three times in history has the Atlantic hurricane season used all 21 storm names, and each of these has occurred in the last 10 years, and twice in the last two years. Here’s the scoop on the 3 most active seasons…and how hurricane season is growing in severity each
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has cleared a plan to release up to 2 billion genetically modified mosquitoes in California and Florida as a test to cull populations of the natural, disease-causing insects. Pilot program will test the ability to reduce mosquito populations With the US entering meteorological spring, warm
One monstrous EF-4 tornado is frightening enough, but imagine two of them side-by-side. You don’t have to imagine because it happened in Nebraska in 2014, and there are pictures. The story of the terrifying twin tornadoes. The terrifying twin tornadoes of 2014 This is the stuff of nightmares. On June
As a way of increasing awareness toward the deadly risk of extreme heat, which people often ignore, advocates and experts are exploring a new ranking system applying names to California’s heat waves for greater safety. California to name heat waves to alert the public to danger Every year, officials remind
The title sounds creepy, but as we already know not to eat yellow snow, we also want to definitely stay away from pink snow as well. Let’s look at what blood snow is and why you should stay away from it. A better name for it This type of snow
The likelihood of severe fires in the West this fall has increased forty percent due to climate change, new computer models show, and with the fires come associated dangers such as debris flow and air pollution. Climate change: 40% increase in extreme fall fire-weather Fall has always been a dangerous
Scientists have discovered that the rates of sea-level rise we are seeing today started with the Industrial Age, while an NOAA study shows that the U.S. coastline can expect a disastrous sea-level rise of up to a foot by 2050. Industrial age sparked sea level rise Scientists have now nailed
