Weather
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Weird Sounds Recorded in the Sky by Grad Student
On August 9th of 2014 graduate student Daniel Bowman sent infrasound microphones into the 19 miles into the sky above Earth just out of reach of planes but well below actually being in space. For 9 hours and for over 400 miles the...
BOOM! Possible Supernova Recorded in 774AD
Centuries ago, in AD 774, some guy in Britain is keeping a written record of life’s goings-on. In that year he mentions witnessing something strange…a weird “red crucifix” hanging in the sky. Fling yourself forward in time. Researchers are...
70-Foot Japanese Dock Makes Landfall… in Oregon
Japan suffered a devastating tsunami in March of 2011. Typically after something like that occurs, an occasional piece of debris will wash up on the shores of other continents following the currents and tides. In the Pacific Northwest an...
Aww…Hail No! Insane Pictures of Hail Swamping Denver
Mama Nature is not happy lately…at all. On June 7th in Denver, Colorado a storm system moving through the area brought hail…a friggin’ massive, omg-worthy amount of hail. Weather Channel reporter Jim Cantore’s Twitter feed exploded with...
Fire Rainbows!
Rainbow? Lame. Double Rainbow? It had its time and people sang its praises. Fire Rainbow? You have our attention. A naturally occuring optical phenomenon, the ‘fire rainbow’ or what’s called a circumhorizontal arc is something that...
Rising Water Slowly Swallowing NYC Town
Very quietly and very slowly older neighborhoods and strips are making way not for new highways and public spaces but for the creeping, crawling onslaught of nature. Case in point? A small five-block neighborhood between Brooklyn and...
Watch A Cloud Dance With Electric Fields
Apparently there is a valid meteorological explanation for this, but it is still pretty freaky. [TDG]
Best Thing You’ll See Today: Electric Storm Strikes Erupting Volcano
Electric storm meet volcano eruption. Can anything be cooler? I defy you to find it. [ABC Tumblr]
Spanish Researchers Have Video Proof Of Elves, Sprites
Sure, it’s a weather phenomenon and not mystical mischief makers of lore. Still, pretty cool. [Science Daily]