Greetings to all, happy holidays, and happy winter solstice! I’m glad you stopped by and hope your holiday season is going well. This week, take a look at 2024’s tornado activity, some stunning astronomy images, and plenty of winter weather safety information. As usual, I’ve got this week’s US Drought Monitor update, so let’s get started.
- The Perseverance rover on Mars has discovered some amazing things about this fascinating planet. It could have also found an interesting setting for organisms.
- As the new year approaches, we all see lots of reviews of what happened in 2024. Take a look at these incredible astronomy images captured this year.
- We’re very much aware of the dangers that plastic pollution presents. However, the chemicals contained in the plastic products that we use every day presents an entirely different health hazard to all of us.
- Even though heat kills far more people annually around the globe, there’s a certain demographic that needs to heed that dangers of cold weather.
- 2024 was an exceptional year for tornado activity across the USA. NOAA has a detailed review of 2024’s tornado events where you can see a detailed month-by-month analysis.
- Here’s another overview of 2024’s tornado events. This year was one of the most active periods in many years.
- In case you missed this last week, here’s a very interesting read for anyone considering a career in meteorology and thoroughly covers the numerous disadvantages of this intellectually demanding career. Contrary to popular opinion, meteorology isn’t an easy or stress free career.
- Here’s the latest update on the US Drought Monitor. Like last week, drought conditions have stayed much the same this week across most of the contiguous USA. Improvement has occurred in small areas, but many regions are still in extreme to exceptional drought conditions. The latest fire weather outlooks can be found at the Storm Prediction Center website where they are updated daily.
WINTER WEATHER SAFETY
Here’s more important winter weather safety information.
Here’s another good winter weather safety resource available in a 12 page PDF file.
That’s a wrap for this week! Thanks for stopping by! See you next Saturday!
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