Day: March 22, 2025

Hurricane forecasters use what are called analog seasons to predict was a future season could have in store. Forecasters pay heavy attention to the status of the El Nino Southern Oscillation, water temperatures and other features that were notable during past seasons to give them a sense of what a future season could produce. For the 2025 hurricane season, most global computer models and forecasters believe that the world will be in a neutral status of the ENSO, so looking at previous neutral-dominated ENSO years, might provide cluses of how active of a hurricane season to expect.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has unveiled the first batch of data from its groundbreaking Euclid mission. So far, Euclid has observed about 2,000 square degrees of sky, or approximately 14% of its total survey area. The mission is expected to observe a third of the entire sky by the end of its primary mission in 2030.

Drone video captured what was a curious sight for scientists, who saw an octopus clinging onto the head of a short-fin mako shark off the coast of New Zealand.

Three acrobatic raccoons were recently caught defying gravity by stealthily creeping along powerlines over a Los Angeles neighborhood.

California’s Marine Mammal Care Center is operating at full capacity after an influx of marine animals suffering from a toxic algal bloom. SeaWorld San Diego has treated more than a dozen animals, with reports of sick or dead dolphins and seals coming in every day.

The Northern Lights may be putting on an encore performance Saturday night after putting on a minor show Friday night, only this time the display has the potential to be longer and brighter.

Severe weather has returned to the forecast for parts of the Mississippi Valley this weekend, an unwelcome sight for an area that is still picking up the pieces from a deadly tornado outbreak just last week.