For many years there has been a strong debate in the meteorology community over whether seeding clouds works. So what is cloud seeding? It's when tiny particles are added to the clouds - often using planes. These particles are designed…

GM now has a battery pack that it says will deliver up to 400 miles on a single charge. One of the biggest difference between the GM batteries and the Tesla batteries is that the GM batteries are flexible, soft…

A group of offshore Belgian wind farms created 804 Gigawatt Hours of electricity in February. So how much is that? It's enough to power roughly 230,000 homes for a whole year. And that was a record for any month so…

Springs are getting warmer in the United States. Data compiled over the past 50 years shows that, except for a few small areas in North and South Dakota, spring temperatures are warming over the entire country. The most pronounce warming…

There's a common myth that tornadoes avoid cities. But this is just a myth. Check out this article by Dr. Marshall Shepherd, Professor at the University of Georgia. https://www.forbes.com/sites/marshallshepherd/2018/04/17/the-science-of-why-tornadoes-miss-cities-or-do-they/#22ca3485321c

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system. In fact it contains more than twice the mass of all the other planets combined. Scientists have long thought that Jupiter was a pretty dry place. In order to investigate this…

Just after sunset tonight, you may have seen a bright "star" next to the moon. That "star" was the planet Venus. It's the 3rd brightest object in the sky, after the sun and the moon. The reason it's so bright…

The earth has picked up a second moon. It's not very big. In fact it's almost impossible to see. Astronomer Kacper Wierzchos says it's an asteroid that's roughly 9 feet in diameter that got captured by the earth's gravity about…

The earth is heated by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere trap outgoing heat. As the concentration of these gases continues to increase, the planet continues to warm. So what are the sources of these gases? They come primarily from burning…

If you want to know about your risk of flooding anywhere in the United States, check out this web site. https://myfloodrisk.org/  It tells you specific risks for any address that you plug in.

NOAA reports that January was the warmest on record worldwide.  Temperature records go back to the 1880's. The worldwide average surface temperature ended up 1.14°C (2.05°F) above the 20th-century norm, narrowly topping the 1.12°C (2.01°F) from January 2016. The warmest…

Spring is arriving way earlier than normal this year - about 3 weeks early. That's the result of the unusually warm winter this year. So how uncommon is that? Specific records of when the leaves bud go back 39 years.…

Forbes.com reports: Last September, Warren Buffett’s NV Energy company signed a deal with Los Angeles’ government to build America’s biggest solar farm. Last month, the project was also green-lit by the Trump administration. The farm will span 7,100 acres in…

It's been very rainy recently in the Midlands. We've gotten more than double the average since December started. From then until now, Columbia has accumulated 17.67 inches. The long-term average for that time frame is about 8 inches. More rain…

Last Thursday 64.9 degrees was measured in Antarctica. That's the warmest temperature recorded on there. The BBC Reports: The reading, taken on Thursday by Argentine research base Esperanza, is 0.8C hotter than the previous peak temperature of 17.5C, in March…

Yesterday's line of storms produced a tornado about 8 miles north of Aiken, just north of I-20. The National Weather Service survey team determined that the winds were in the range of 105 mph, making this an EF-1 tornado on…