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.
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
At 8:48 AM local time on Friday, July 17, 2026, the ground beneath southern Mexico snapped. A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the coast of Chiapas, 58 kilometers (36 miles) from Puerto Madero. Within seconds, shaking rippled across four countries, from Mexico City’s skyscrapers to the volcanic highlands of Guatemala and as far south as … Read more
The Guadalupe River rose 32 feet in four hours after 20 inches of rain fell across the Texas Hill Country in 48 hours. Two people are dead. More than 40 water rescues have been conducted. Here is what happened and why the Hill Country floods so fast.
Half the people on Earth owe their water, their food, and their way of life to how monsoons work, a seasonal wind shift that most of us never think about until it fails to arrive. Every summer, a continent-sized engine fires up over South Asia. The land bakes under the sun, air rises, and a … Read more
You cannot see it, but you can feel it on your face, watch it bend trees, and hear it howl through windows. Wind is the atmosphere breathing. And once you understand how wind works, you start to see every breeze as part of a global machine. Wind is simply air in motion. When meteorologists talk … Read more
A single band of moisture, invisible to the naked eye, carries more water than the Mississippi River. When it hits land, it can end a drought or drown a city. If you have watched a West Coast weather forecast in winter, you have heard the term. Atmospheric rivers, sometimes called rivers in the sky, sound … Read more