One of the first things that meteorologists learn in their Intro to Weather class is that low pressure means cloudy skies and rain while high pressure means clear skies and sun. Of course, the second thing that meteorologists learn is that weather often doesn’t behave in a textbook way. The... Read More

The past few days have brought devastating rain and flooding to the Australian state of Queensland, in the country’s northeast. The community of Paluma received more than 1.4 meters (4.5 feet) of rain over the weekend, and damage to roads and bridges carried out by the torrents of water have... Read More

High spatial resolution satellites like the Landsat series operated by NASA and the US Geological Survey, or Sentinel operated by the European Space Agency, are often used for land process investigations. Their very high spatial resolution comes at the cost of less frequent overpasses over specific locations, and so they... Read More

For the second day in a row, residents of the southern United States have awoken to dense fog advisories. A view of the continental United States surface map shows that overall, there is very weak synoptic forcing across the south, which results in calm winds and little mixing or advection.... Read More