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Candidly, there is still no definitive answer on whether warmer Spring temperatures will slow the deadly COVID-19 coronavirus. There is a lot of conventional (and hopeful) wisdom out there that influenza and common colds are seasonal and tend to subside during the warm season so this will too. Bob Henson…

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If this winter season was not very wintery where you live, you're certainly not alone — that was the experience for most of the people in the Northern Hemisphere. According to NOAA, the winter of 2019-2020 was the warmest on record across all continents north of the equator. With an…

What winter? The months of December, January and February – which meteorologists define as winter here in the Northern Hemisphere – were the second-warmest on record, federal scientists announced Friday.Only the El Niño-fueled winter of 2015-16 was warmer, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. El Niño, a natural warming of sea…

Home News Spaceflight DSCOVR had a prime view of a total solar eclipse that crossed the Pacific Ocean in 2016. (Image: © NASA image courtesy of the DSCOVR EPIC team) A disabled satellite that tracks space weather is back online after nine months of efforts to get it communicating with…

Climate change is messing with Washington’s cherry trees by forcing the plant’s pink-and-white blooms to pop earlier in the year. The new pattern, and the unpredictability it could bring, has caught the attention of scientists, but local shopkeepers should take note, too—as the change could affect when tourists come to…

By: Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: March 7, 2020 2:20:14 pm The Great Barrier Reef is facing a critical period of heat stress over the coming weeks following the most widespread coral bleaching the natural wonder has ever endured, scientists said Friday, March 6, 2020. (AP Photo: Randy…

WASHINGTON — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is moving to close the computer modeling gap between the United States and international weather and climate agencies, such as the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF).The oceans and atmosphere agency has signed a contract that will provide two new supercomputers…

Rejoice! If you’ve missed your daily fix of seeing views of our rotating Earth from space, NOAA announced that its Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) is now back in action. The deep space satellite, which produces incredible full-disk images of our Blue Marble, has been offline since June 27, 2019…

Code needed because 'we no longer have direct measurements about what’s happening in outer electron belt' Machine-learning algorithms may in future be able to warn scientists of harmful radiation storms days in advance of their formation in Earth’s Van Allen belts. Charged particles from the Sun get trapped in our…