Yes, the beastly sunspot AR3664 is in the news again. Although the sunspot has rotated out of our view, it’s still quite the hotspot, having fired off its strongest solar flare yet on Tuesday (May 14). Any bursts of solar plasma and magnetic field, known as coronal mass ejections, erupting from AR3664 will now be […]
Power outages could last weeks in parts of Houston after thunderstorms with hurricane-force winds tore through the city in Texas, an official said. The storms knocked out electricity to nearly one million homes and businesses. “We are going to have to talk about this disaster in weeks, not days,” Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo, the […]
HOUSTON (AP) — Severe thunderstorms pummeled southeastern Texas on Thursday for the second time this month, killing at least four people, blowing out windows in high-rise buildings, downing trees and knocking out power to nearly 900,000 homes and businesses in the Houston area. Mary Benton, chief of communications and senior advisor to the mayor, confirmed […]
The northern lights may grace the Cincinnati region again Sunday night. Overnight Friday and Saturday, Ohioans had a rare chance to see the aurora borealis right from their doorsteps due to a strong solar storm, which brought views of the celestial pink and green northern lights to many portions of the U.S. Sunday night’s skies […]
A ferocious storm system that spawned multiple reported tornadoes brought heavy and widespread damage to Tallahassee on Friday morning, toppling trees onto homes, rendering roads impassible and knocking out power to more than 80,000 area electric customers. At least one person, a 47-year-old woman who hasn’t been identified, was killed in the storm after a […]
Apple is apologizing for its advertisement promoting its latest iPad Pro after widespread blowback online. In a statement obtained by advertising industry publication Ad Age, Tor Myhren, Apple’s vice president of marketing, said the ad’s message failed to connect. “Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products […]
A “nationwide issue” with Border Force e-gates that caused significant disruption at airports across the UK has been resolved, the British Home Office has confirmed. Airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Bristol, Newcastle and Manchester were impacted by the failure on Tuesday evening. Border officials were left to manually process travellers instead, with images and […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The weather around the Mid-South could become severe late Wednesday evening. Following some early morning storms on Wednesday prior to sunrise, it will be another warm, humid and breezy day. After sunset, storms will slowly move in. The timing will generally be 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. from northwest to southeast. The […]
Apr. 25—Trace amounts of plutonium from decades of weapons work at Los Alamos National Laboratory have contaminated the Rio Grande at least as far as Cochiti Lake and could be in the regional aquifer that serves a large population of New Mexicans, a nuclear watchdog says. “That’s been long known,” Nuclear Watch New Mexico Director […]
Roads have turned into rivers in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, as a top official said flooding had “escalated to extreme levels”. Heavy rain has pounded Kenya in recent days, causing widespread devastation. The UN says that at least 32 people have lost their lives and more than 40,000 have been forced from their homes because […]
Folks headed out on their morning commute and errands will want to grab their rain gear as a rainy day is on tap for the Kansas City area Thursday, according to the National Weather Service. A large thunderstorm complex passed over northwest Missouri early Thursday morning, bringing strong to severe thunderstorms to areas between Interstate […]
Strikes called by Greece’s largest labour union halted ferries, disrupted public transport services and left some state-run hospitals running on emergency staffing levels in Athens and elsewhere on Wednesday. The General Confederation of Greek Labour (GSEE) led the strikes to press for a return of collective bargaining rights axed more than a decade ago during […]