There is a river in the sky above your head right now. It carries more water than the Amazon, but you cannot see it. It controls whether your state is in drought or flood. It is called an atmospheric river, and on December 22, 2010, it had already delivered 75 percent of California’s entire annual … Read more
Monsoon floods in India’s Assam state have killed 50 people and displaced 700,000 after the Brahmaputra River overflowed, submerging 872 villages across 16 districts.
What Happened: Torrential Rains Trigger Flooding Across Three Countries The asia monsoon floods July 2026 struck without warning across East and Southeast Asia. On the morning of July 19, residents of Gapyeong, a resort town 60 kilometers northeast of Seoul, woke to the roar of a landslide. Heavy monsoon rains that began before dawn triggered … Read more
How do weather forecasts work well enough to trust with lives? The answer runs through weather balloons lifting off at the same hour worldwide, satellites scanning from 22,300 miles up, supercomputers solving physics across millions of grid cells, and a radar. Our weather satellites guide shows how orbital instruments feed this system. A cold front … Read more
Reading Time: 9 minutes | Category: Weather Explained How do hurricanes form? Warm ocean water, a disturbance, thunderstorms, and low wind shear combine to create a spinning heat engine that can stretch 400 miles across with 157-mile-per-hour winds. For 40 million Americans in hurricane-prone coastal counties, understanding how do hurricanes form is survival knowledge. This … Read more
A single molecule of water that fell as rain on ancient Rome has circled through oceans, then clouds, then into rivers and soil thousands of times since then. It may be falling on your roof this afternoon. The water cycle makes this possible, and it has been running without pause for billions of years. No … Read more
The rain arrived along the Gulf of Guinea coast on June 20, 2026, just as it does every year when the monsoon season begins. But this time the water kept falling and the drainage canals kept overflowing. By the time the skies cleared three days later, the West Africa floods 2026 had killed at least … Read more
The Ontario wildfires 2026 season erupted in mid-July as nearly 200 forest fires burned across northern Ontario. The blazes forced wildfire evacuations Ontario in at least 15 communities and sent hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke across 19 U.S. states. Toronto air quality briefly ranked as the worst in the world. In Milwaukee, the Air Quality Index … Read more
A fast-moving wildfire tore through an expat community in southern Spain on July 9, 2026, killing at least 12 people and leaving 23 others missing. The Los Gallardos wildfire Spain 2026, which erupted in Almeria province, became the deadliest wildfire in Andalusia and the third deadliest in Spanish history. What Happened The fire ignited Thursday … Read more