Weather Nerd

It feels like deja vu. Smoke from raging Canadian wildfires is once again worsening air quality in some U.S. states. Didn’t we just go through this last year? Or was it two years ago that wildfires in Canada raged out of control and smoke blanketed the northern states? Actually it was both 2023 and 2024. Feels like […]

Last week, a village in the Swiss Alps was buried beneath ice, rock and mud after a massive piece of a nearby glacier collapsed. As ABC News reports, on May 28, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier — located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland — flattened homes in the Alpine […]

Atlantic hurricane season 2025 is almost here and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says a “confluence of factors” are set to fuel tropical cyclones in coming months. NOAA officials said to prepare for danger now as they released a forecast that predicts a 60% chance of an “above-normal hurricane season.” As USA Today reports, specifically, NOAA is […]

Summer is here, and meteorologists predict it’s going to be a doozie. As USA Today reports, June 1 marks the first day of meteorological summer, the kickoff of the three months that typically feel the hottest (although the calendar will technically say it’s spring until June 20). According to multiple outlooks, summer 2025 will be […]

The first tropical storm of 2025 in the Western Hemisphere will be on the map this week off the southwestern coast of Mexico, about two weeks after the beginning of the Eastern Pacific hurricane season. A Tropical Depression that is expected to officially develop into Tropical Storm Alvin is expected to form in the Eastern Pacific […]

While the idea of a massive dust cloud from the deserts of Africa hitting the United States might seem like the plot of a sci-fi movie — it’s actually just an annual weather event that can give way to some spectacular seaside sunsets. What is an SAL? What Causes It? Thunderstorms and the jostling position of a […]