NASA: America Darkened by the Moon’s Shadow On October 14, 2023, the Moon aligned with the Sun and Earth to produce an annular solar eclipse. The spectacle bathed millions of Americans in a lunar shadow as the Moon blocked the Sun’s rays. Related: Friday, April 13th, 2029 – The Day a Huge Asteroid Dubbed ‘God of Chaos’ Will Fly Underneath Our TV Satellites An annular eclipse occurs […] SnowBrains | October 18, 2023 0 Comments
Brain Post: 8 Facts About Summer Solstice June 21st, 2023, is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, and the official start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This means that the start of winter is only six months away, December 21st, 2023, and daylight today is 5h28m longer than then. Ski season is even closer, as it usually starts in November. Of course, in […] Brains SnowBrains | June 20, 2023 2 Comments
A Tour of The 9 Oldest Mountain Ranges on Earth As a little refresher from 2nd grade, mountains generally form in three different ways, all involving plate tectonics. So before we scroll and look at the pretty pictures of the mountains, I am going to do a quick little crash course on how these beautiful creations that we love form. Fold Mountain: Two tectonic plates collide, and the less dense […] Brains Luke Guilford | March 8, 2023 0 Comments
NASA: Wintry Dunes on Earth and Mars Today’s Image of the Day is the answer to the January 2023 puzzler. Flanked by mountain ranges on three sides and parched by the resulting rain shadow, the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang region of western China typically receives little or no snow in winter. But after a storm in January 2023, the southwestern portion of the basin looked more like […] SnowBrains | February 2, 2023 0 Comments
Minor Solar Storm from Hole in Sun’s Atmosphere to Hit Earth Wednesday High-speed solar winds from a “hole” in the sun’s atmosphere are set to hit Earth’s magnetic field on Wednesday, August 3, triggering a minor G-1 geomagnetic storm. The prediction was made by forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) after observing that “gaseous material is flowing from a southern hole in the sun‘s atmosphere,” according […] Weather WeatherBrains | August 3, 2022 0 Comments
NOAA: Which Mountain Snowpacks are Most Vulnerable to Global Warming? This article was originally published by Alison Stevens on Climate.gov on March 22, 2021 As Earth heats up thanks to human-caused climate change, scientists expect that winter snowpacks will melt increasingly earlier in the spring. According to a new NOAA-funded study, these impacts are already underway, but global warming isn’t impacting every region equally. While snowpack in some regions has been […] SnowBrains | June 15, 2021 0 Comments
Earth Just Had Its Hottest September on Record | 2020 Could Rank Among Three-Warmest Years Ever Recorded This post first appeared on the NOAA website Unprecedented heat around the world vaulted September 2020 to the hottest September since 1880, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Related: NOAA: September 2020 Saw Hurricanes, Tropical Storms, Destructive Fires, Record Heat | $16-Billion Disasters this Year. So Far. The month’s warmth also contributed to 2020’s trend as […] Weather WeatherBrains | October 15, 2020 0 Comments
The South Pole Warming Three Times Faster Than the Rest of the Planet For the last three decades the South Pole has been warming faster than the rest of the planet. A study published in the Journal Nature Climate by researchers in New Zealand, Britain and the United States analyzed 60 years of weather station data and used computer modeling to show what was causing accelerated warming. The South Pole has experienced a record-high statistically […] Brains Sebastian Opazo | July 2, 2020 0 Comments
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