An unexpected mystery has appeared at the equator in the Atlantic Ocean, in the form of a sudden cooling trend in the surface waters, despite the ongoing record-breaking warming of the ocean surface and a lack of the conditions that would typically be required for La Niña-like conditions to formread more
A rare temperature spike in the atmosphere high above Antarctica is threatening to split the southern polar vortex, bringing with it the potential for extreme weather events across the Southern Hemisphere. In July 2024, a Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event was detected in the skies above the Southern Ocean that surroundsread more
A proposal to amend the current five-level scale used to measure the severity of hurricanes to include a sixth category for the most powerful of tropical cyclones has been put forward, as a method of improving the classification—and thus the communication of—the destructiveness of a given storm, especially as weread more
The 2023 hurricane season in the North Atlantic is ramping up with a record number of tropical storms underway, with no less than four systems having formed within the span of two days. This follows in the wake of the Pacific’s Hurricane Hilary making a rare track up through the Bajaread more