Forbes.com has a very well written article about how vulnerable healthcare workers (and their patients) are to severe weather in the make-shift, outdoor hospitals that are springing up to combat COVID-19. "If there’s one predictable thing we can count on…

Tonight the moon is called a supermoon! So what does that mean? The moon is bigger and brighter than normal. More specifically, tonight's supermoon is the biggest and brightest that it'll appear all year. That's because tonight is the the…

National Geographic has a fascinating article about this. Well worth the read. Here it is: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-diseases/how-do-animals-pass-dangerous-zoonotic-diseases-to-humans-zoonoses-coronavirus/?cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=SpecialEdition_20200403&rid=FF105FF899BFE824D1A8F429946F7485

This image, tweeted out by Dr. Marshall Shepherd, is an analysis of how people's traveling behavior has or has not changed. The red is where people have not changed their traveling pattern. The grey are is where people have mostly…

You might expect this sort of thing in other countries, but it's actually happening right here in the United States. Doctors and other health care people who are on the front lines, treating patients with the coronavirus, are being told…

An article in Nature sheds light on how the new "quiet" is helping seismologist. Here's an excerpt from the article. "If lockdowns continue in the coming months, city-based detectors around the world might be better than usual at detecting the…

The short answer: absolutely yes. And for now, it's all we got. This article from National Geographic looks back at how different cities handled the Spanish Flu in 1918-19. The bottom line is that the cities that adopted social distancing…

With the coronavirus crisis impacting almost every part of our lives, it actually could have a negative impact on weather forecasts. Why? Airplanes collect weather data. That data gets ingested into weather models. Fewer flights means less weather data. And…

James Dyson, the billionaire known mostly for his vacuum cleaners and had blowers, has designed a new ventilator in just 10 days. He calls it the "CoVent" and it's designed to specifically treat those with coronavirus. His ventilator is in…

Dr. Marshall Shepherd is speculating that one reason why folks are having a hard time understanding the coronavirus is because they are not used to processing mathematical information - especially from graphs. It's worth a read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2020/03/23/is-the-math-too-hard-for-people-to-understand-covid-19-coronavirus/#5625d1246a9c

If you type "Yellowstone" into your search engine, you'll likely see lots of folks saying that the huge volcanic system underneath Yellowstone National Park is about to erupt. But before you dive head first into this story, it'd be prudent…

Today is World Meteorological Day. The focus this year is Water & Climate. Here's the statement from the the web page: Fresh water is vital for life. On average, a human being cannot survive more than three days without it.…

Andrew M. "Andy" Slavitt is a former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a position he held from March 2015 to January 2017. He says that we should all read the following article because he tweeted, "Please…

Chad Orzel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Union College, and he writes books about science for non-scientists. He's a contributor to Forbes and the article that he wrote below references several science experiments…

On March 18, 1925 the most devastating tornado on record hit Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. As ustornadoes.com describes it: The Tri-State Tornado is currently the U.S. record holder for longest tornado track (219 miles), most deaths in a single tornado…