July is high summer in full swing. Gardens are heavy with vegetables, fireflies glow after dusk, thunderstorms rumble on humid...

On June 22, 2026, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center published Key Message 2026 006, warning of...

Long before smartphones, weather radar, and seven-day forecasts, farmers looked to a much older source of information: the night sky.

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Long before Doppler radar and satellite imagery, people read the natural world to forecast the weather: sky color, cloud shape,...

If you grew up calling them lightning bugs, you probably grew up south of the Mason-Dixon Line or in the...

There are mornings when you step outside and feel something has shifted before any forecast has said so. The air...

On some clear nights the moon looks like a high-resolution photograph: every crater sharp, every mountain shadow distinct. Other nights,...