The earth is warming up quickly.  By far the biggest reason is that human activities are adding more heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere than are there normally.  One significant heat-trapping gas is carbon dioxide.  Over the last 150 years the…

The distance that the Earth is from the sun varies some because the orbit is slightly oval-shaped.  Today is the Earth's closest distance from the sun.  We are farthest from the sun in early July.  The Earth's tilt is a…

We've gotten beneficial rain in the past month, and that's made a significant dent in our drought.  Check out the images below from one month ago and today.  Notice there is almost no red (extreme drought) left on the map. …

A potent storm will plow through the Midlands today (Sunday).  It'll be rainy, at times heavy, all day long - expect up to 3 inches of rain.  This will cause some street flooding.  It'll also be windy with gust to…

Geothermal power plants use heat that is naturally occurring in the earth.  What new with this next-generation power plant is explained in an excerpt from this article on Canary Media. "Unlike conventional geothermal plants, which tap into heat found close…

Yes, the "official" end of hurricane season in the Atlantic happens on November 1st.  But sometimes Mother Nature doesn't know that...  Check out the map below.  Two areas could produce tropical storms over the next 7 days.  Stay tuned.

Hurricane Otis is now a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph, about to slam into Acapulco Mexico.  Just 18 hours ago it was a tropical storm, but has intensified unfathomably fast into a monster of a storm.  Below…

Hurricane Tammy is currently about 1200 miles off the coast of South Carolina - a long way from impacting us at all.  That said, the storm is expected to push to the north and then do something unusual: make a…

"From 2018 to 2021, an estimated 10 billion snow crabs disappeared from the eastern Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, with the population plummeting to record lows in 2021. Researchers had only speculated as to what happened to the…

The oceans are absorbing about 90% of the heat from Global Warming.  The hotter oceans are causing hurricanes to intensify a lot faster than they used to.   You can read all of the details here: https://abcnews.go.com/US/climate-change-making-atlantic-hurricanes-strengthen-weak-major/story?id=104039515

There are two tropical storms in the Atlantic Ocean - Philippe and Rina.  Both of them are more than 1500 miles from the southeastern US coastline.  And it appears that both of them will stay harmlessly far away from any…

This August, Columbia was hotter than normal and wetter than normal. The average temperature of 82.6°F was 1.6° above normal, and the 5.71 inches of precipitation was 123% of the normal amount (data are from SC-ACIS and normal is defined…

There is a blob of moisture off our coast that, over the next several days, could eventually turn into a tropical storm - see the yellow circle below.  At this point the threat of this happening isn't terribly high, but…

Dr. Jonathan Overpeck, Professor at the University of Michigan tweeted this:  "This is what human-caused climate change looks like: Cat 5 storms this year in every ocean - for the first time in recorded history." You can read all the…

Hurricane Lee is expected to miss the southeastern U.S.   But even as it passes well out to sea, it will create some big waves that will result in strong rip currents at the beaches early in the week.  The most…

Tropical Storm Lee has formed in the Atlantic and Lee is expected to intensify fairly quickly into a Category 4 or 5 Hurricane by the weekend.  It will most likely turn to the north and stay clear of the US…