The SPC is continuing the Slight Risk for severe weather for sections of the Gulf Coast. As the next system swings through it will open the door for showers and storms to develop across the…
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Ask NASA: Using the latest tech to better forecast hurricanes
Your browser does not support the video tag. NASA has a unique and important view of hurricanes around the planet. Satellites and aircraft watch as storms form, travel across the ocean and sometimes, make landfall.…
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Ask NASA: A Solar Orbiter discussion in Spanish
Your browser does not support the video tag. Spanish Facebook Live event with Solar Orbiter mission experts at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Video and description courtesy of NASA
In Blob We Trust: A Gulf Coast severe weather model data update
UPDATE (Monday, 9am): The Storm Prediction Center has decreased the severe weather risk to a Marginal risk for sections – but not all – of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. The SPC notes: “This should be…
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Ask NASA: Modeling the retreating Greenland Ice Sheet
Your browser does not support the video tag. Scientists at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute used data from NASA’s Operation IceBridge to develop a more accurate model of how the Greenland Ice Sheet…
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Ask NASA: Answer your questions about the Sun
Your browser does not support the video tag. Is the Sun a ball of fire? And why does NASA send missions to the Sun? NASA’s Heliophysics Director Nicky Fox explains NASA’s latest solar science findings.…
Gulf Coast faces severe threat Wednesday, February 5th
The Storm Prediction Center continues to monitor the region for the potential for severe weather. From the SPC: …Tuesday/Day 4 to Thursday/Day 6… The medium-range models move an upper-level trough across the Four Corners region…
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South Mississippi faces another severe weather threat to start February
The Storm Prediction Center is monitoring the region for a chance for severe storms next week. Right now, it looks like the window will be between Tuesday night (the 4th) and Thursday morning (the 6th).…
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Ask NASA: Explaining snowflakes and how we can see them from space
Your browser does not support the video tag. The Global Precipitation Measurement can help improve numerical weather predictions of snowfall by measuring the size and shape distribution of snow particles, layer by layer, in a…
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Ask NASA: Ever heard of “Dirty” snow? Research suggests aerosols make snow melt faster
Your browser does not support the video tag. Tiny particles suspended in the air, known as aerosols, can darken snow and ice causing it to absorb more of the sun’s energy. But until recently, scientists…
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