Energetic hurricane season portrayed in NOAA video
This year's energetic hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, which officially ends today, has been captured in a short video from NOAA. The season featured 19 named storms - seven more than the...
View ArticleRaw video: Brown pelicans flying in formation in N.C.
I visited several beaches on the Outer Banks of North Carolina with family and friends last summer and quickly noticed an apparent abundance of brown pelicans. They're very big birds and they look...
View ArticleNor’easter threat triggers coastal flood warning in N.J.
A coastal flood warning is in effect from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m. Thursday in New Jersey, according to the National Weather Service. Here are some of the details: - The warning covers areas along the Atlantic...
View ArticleTropical Atlantic Ocean gets busy – finally
Tropical Depression Gabrielle is unraveling, according to the National Hurricane Center. But check out this image of a "very active tropical Atlantic," as NASA puts it: Source: NASA GOES Project And...
View ArticleCool Earth image of ‘calm’ ocean skies
The Atlantic, Pacific or Indian oceans had zero hurricanes, cyclones or tropical storms on Sept. 8, 2013, according to NASA. That's relatively rare for that time of year in the northern hemisphere -...
View ArticleSatellite image: trio of ‘dragons’
Ever see dragons in the atmosphere? NASA has posted a very cool image of three of 'em. In reality, they were storms over the eastern Pacific Ocean, the Heartland and the eastern Atlantic Ocean on March...
View ArticleArctic air boosts powerful Atlantic storms
Extratropical storms near Iceland (Source: NASA) Cold Arctic air over the Atlantic Ocean. Its persistence is why the number of hurricane-force events rose in the 2013-14 cold season versus three...
View ArticleHope for great white sharks off NJ, in northwest Atlantic
A large great white shark off Massachusetts (Credit: Fiona Hogan, NEFSC/NOAA.) There's hope for great white sharks in the northwest Atlantic Ocean, which includes New Jersey coastal waters, according...
View ArticleHigh chance of tropical cyclone forming soon
There's a 70 percent, or high chance, of a tropical cyclone forming within five days (Source: National Hurricane Center via Gary Szatkowski of the National Weather Service) The hurricane season...
View ArticleBoaters: Help save the whales and slow down
A North Atlantic right whale with prop scars (Source: EcoHealth Alliance via NOAA) Boaters, slow down. Endangered right whales are migrating from waters off Florida and Georgia to the Gulf of Maine and...
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