Alberto has made landfall near Panama City Florida with winds of 50 mph. As the storm slowly moves north, we will continue to see on & off rain through Thursday. Expect to see up to 2 inches of rain between…

Alberto is the first Tropical Storm of 2018. It's projected to move north over the next several days, with the center of the storm making landfall sometime on Monday along the Gulf Coast. On this track, the Midlands will see…

As you might expect, all the recent rain has made a significant impact in our drought. These images show the change over the past month. As of today, the majority of South Carolina is no longer in any drought conditions.…

NASA is planning on using a small drone to explore Mars on when it sends its next mission their in 2020. There are lot of cool things about this mini helicopter. What's below is from Earth & Sky. "The Mars…

All this rain has really helped out our drought situation. Check out these images from this week and a month ago. And with more rain in the forecast, this will undoubtedly improve next week as well.

Global warming is causing sea level to rise - at a faster and faster rate. Glaciers are melting at a faster rate and that water goes into the oceans. Also, the oceans themselves are warming and warmer water takes up…

Two days ago, New Zealand scientists measured a mammoth 78-foot tall wave. This is the largest wave ever measured in the southern hemisphere - beating the old record of 64 feet set just last year. Both were measured by a…

From an early age I was skygazer - always fascinated by clouds. Andrew Freedman does a very nice job describing and ranking his top 12 clouds in the following article. https://mashable.com/2018/05/06/cloud-types-ranked/?utm_cid=hp-n-1#ufv6RpoeYsqQ

More than 570 of America's top scientists have signed an open letter that is critical of how the Trump Administration dismisses scientific evidence, and denigrates and harasses scientists. The Statement to Restore Science-Based Policy in Government comes from members of…

Here are some weather highlights from April 2018. There were 4 tornadoes and 2 downbursts on the 15th. It was about a degree cooler than average - making it the 2nd month in a row of cooler than average temperatures.…

The bright "star" next to the moon tonight is not a star at all. It's the planet Jupiter. Jupiter is the 4th brightest object in the sky after the sun, the moon, and the planet Venus. Jupiter is huge -…

A recent study commissioned by the US Department of Defense concludes that many Islands in the Pacific will be uninhabitable by the middle of the century. Several of these islands include US Military Bases. One site that is part of…

Finally some relief for seasonal allergy sufferers! Today's pollen count was the lowest it has been in a month. The steady, at times heavy, rain did an excellent job of "washing" the pollen out of the air. Below is the…

The drought in South Carolina has gotten worse over the last month. Roughly the southern third of the state is now in stage 3 out of 5. Here in the Midlands things generally aren't as bad - with the exception…

The National Weather Service has completed its investigation into yesterday's storms and concluded that 4 tornadoes touched down in the Midlands. The pictures below show where the tornadoes hit and a summary of each.