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A spectacular meteor shower is set to light up Britain’s skies this week, with stargazers being treated to dazzling "beautiful streaks" overhead. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower will peak in the early hours of Wednesday, offering skywatchers the best chance to catch the celestial display between midnight and sunrise. Britons hoping to witness the annual spectacle are being urged to head away from …

A bright waning gibbous moon may wash out this week's Eta Aquarid meteor shower peak — but early risers could still catch a few shooting stars.

High winds have hit the South Aegean and heavy rain has fallen in Turkey, but Central Europe has felt summer heat Greece and Turkey have found themselves in the grip of a late-season cold spell this weekend. Conditions will persist over the next few days as an area of low pressure situated over Turkey is pulling in colder, moisture-laden air from the north-east via the Black Sea; this meteorologi…

This annual meteor shower occurs as Earth passes through the dusty debris left behind by Halley’s Comet as it journeys around the sun

Spatial patterns of the leading EOF mode of day-to-day temperature variability over Eurasia and North America for different seasons during 1961–2014, based on the HadGHCND dataset. Explained variance is indicated in each panel. Credit: Modified from Liu and Fu [2026] , Figure 2(a,d,g,j)

New research headed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) scientist working in collaboration with NASA reveals that wildfires can leave behind more than scorched Earth - they can create persistent "heat islands" that reshape local weather patterns long after the flames are extinguished. The study, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), was led by Andrew B…

Strongest tornado hits Mineral Wells, Texas, where disaster was declared. Elsewhere, there is extreme rain in China Springtime is the season for severe thunderstorms for the central US, and the beginning of this week was a particularly active period for the region. A favourable weather pattern allowed for the development of intense thunderstorms on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, bringing strong w…

Heavy rains from Tropical Cyclone Maila triggered a deadly landslide in the mountains of East New Britain. The post Cyclone Rains Spur Papua New Guinea Landslides appeared first on NASA Science .

For Madison Wallner, a graduate research assistant of Atmospheric and Earth Science (AES) at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, a childhood moment of awe has grown into a professional pursuit: the study of thunderstorms to predict why some events grow so much larger, leading to potential new prediction models.

The Zonal Seasonal Cycle of Tropical Precipitation: Introducing the Indo-Pacific Monsoonal Mode Tuckman, PJ; Smyth, Jane; Lutsko, Nicholas J; Marshall, John The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is associated with a zonal band of strong precipitation that migrates meridionally over the seasonal cycle. Tropical precipitation also migrates zonally, such as from the South Asian monsoon in Northe…

Different Propagation Mechanisms of Deep and Shallow Wintertime Extratropical Cyclones over the North Pacific Yao, Yuling; Zhang, Yang; Hodges, Kevin I; Tamarin-Brodsky, Talia Extratropical cyclones (ETCs) are three-dimensional synoptic systems in the middle and high latitudes. Previous studies on ETC propagation have typically focused on cyclones identified at a single level. However, more recen…

The QBO–MJO Connection: A Possible Role for the SST and ENSO Randall, David A; Tziperman, Eli; Branson, Mark D; Richter, Jadwiga H; Kang, Wanying We examine the hypothesis that the observed connection between the stratospheric quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) and the strength of the Madden–Julian oscillation (MJO) is modulated by the sea surface temperature (SST)—for example, by El Niño–Southern …

The Response of Tropical Rainfall to Idealized Small‐Scale Thermal and Mechanical Forcing Velez‐Pardo, Martin; Cronin, Timothy W Predicting the spatiotemporal distribution of rainfall remains a key challenge in Tropical Meteorology, partly due to an incomplete understanding of the effects of different environmental factors on atmospheric convection. In this work, we use numerical simulations of t…

In planetary atmospheres, energy and vorticity can cascade from large scales to smaller ones, but the mechanics of this transfer remain somewhat elusive. In a recent experiment, researchers built a lab-scale representation of an atmosphere using a meter-scale rotating annular tank. The outer bottom edge of the tank gets heated–representing the sun’s warming at the […]

They’re a prolific, yet often elusive for northern hemisphere observers. If skies are clear, watch for a strong annual meteor shower that’s attained an almost mythical status: the May Eta Aquariids. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is active from April 19th until May 28th, with the key night being the evening of May 5th into the morning of May 6th.

A strange green glow over Hawaii has led scientists to a rare atmospheric explanation invisible to the human eye.

Rainfall throughout the month of April has brought nearly all of Harris County out of “moderate drought” conditions, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

Nature, Published online: 29 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10474-y Separating the anthropogenic forced thermodynamic and dynamic components from internal variability in winter precipitation trends in the mid-latitudes shows that thermodynamic effects agree with models and observations but the role of dynamic response remains uncertain.

Severe convective weather (SCW) forecasting has emerged as a cutting-edge research focus due to its complex dynamical characteristics and significant socioeconomic impacts. However, the advent of deep learning (DL), with its capacity for extracting massive information and modeling non-linear relationships, offers a promising alternative for enhancing the accuracy of SCW forecasts. This study revi…

Scientific Data, Published online: 29 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-07327-8 Hourly electricity load curve dataset for Chinese provinces derived from meteorological variables