Weather Nerd

Residents in Alaska’s largest city are bracing for a looming volcano eruption that scientists have warned could happen in a few weeks. As The Daily Mail reports, dozens of mini earthquakes have rattled Alaska’s Mount Spurr, an 11,000-foot-tall volcano, which sits just 81 miles from Anchorage, and is home to nearly 300,000 people. According to the Alaska […]

The first major meteor shower of 2025 – the Lyrids – is due to arrive this weekend. Most meteor showers are caused by debris from a passing comet. For the Lyrids, the comet is named Comet Thatcher.  The Lyrid meteor shower – spawned by this comet – seems to outburst, or produce an unexpectedly large number of […]

Relentless rounds of heavy rain have inundated parts of the central United States, triggering rapidly rising waterways and prompting multiple flash flood emergencies across several states. A “generational flood event” refers to a flood of such magnitude and rarity that it’s expected to occur only once in a person’s lifetime or the lifespan of a generation, […]

The short-lived reign of La Niña has come to an end. As CNN Weather reports, La Niña – a natural climate pattern that can influence weather worldwide – arrived at the start of this year but had a very short and odd life. The atmosphere first started to take on a La Niña look last fall, but […]

Does it seem like it was unusually windy last month? You’re not wrong. This March came in like a lion — but the lion never left. Even though it is typically the windiest month of the spring, this March was the windiest on record in many U.S. cities and in the nation at large. AccuWeather […]

As waters recede along small streams and secondary rivers, flooding is just getting underway along the largest rivers and related problems may last well into the spring. As AccuWeather reports, rains have ended over the Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi river basins, but runoff from 8-16 inches of rain over just a few days will continue […]