Cold Weather Safety
Extremely cold air comes every winter into at least part of the country and affects millions of people across the United States. The arctic air can be dangerous. Combined with brisk winds, dangerously cold wind chill values can result. People…
Why Air Quality Is Important
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), issues daily air quality forecast guidance as part of a national Air Quality Forecasting Capability. Air quality has improved significantly since the passage of the…
What’s the Difference Between Weather and Climate?
Adding confusion to the politics of climate change and global warming in the press is the assumption that the terms weather and climate are at some level interchangeable. The two terms are confused with one another, presumably because the same…
Why Is Predicting the Weather So Difficult for Meteorologists?
Simply stated, predicting the future is hard work, and meteorologists should never be expected to get things exactly right everywhere at once, but they often get close. Since ancient times, weather prediction has used observations to forecast changes. For many…
12 Questions About Earth’s Atmsophere and Weather Answered
The sky includes Earth’s atmosphere and is the location of the planet’s weather, which means there’s a lot happening there. A clear sky usually means a warm and sunny day while a dark, cloudy, and windy day brings warning of…
Weather or Not: How to Book Better Shoulder Season Travel
Avoiding peak travel season is one of the best ways to save money on your next vacation. Yet visiting Norway in January isn’t everybody’s idea of a good time — however cheap the airfare. That’s where traveling during shoulder seasons…
Sex, Drugs, and AI Mickey Mouse
On January 1, Mike Neville gave Midjourney the following prompt: “Steamboat Willie drawn in a vintage Disney style, black and white. He is dripping all over with white gel.”
Black Twitter Remains Unbothered in Elon Musk’s X
Social media is having a crisis of identity. In the 15 months since a change of ownership rocked the foundation of Twitter—now confusingly rebranded X—competitors have scrambled to rekindle the allure and influence of the platform that first reshaped, then defined, and eventually…
The George Carlin ‘AI’ Stand-Up Creators Now Say a Human Wrote the Jokes
THE ESTATE OF George Carlin has filed a federal lawsuit against the comedy podcast Dudesy for an hour-long comedy special sold as an AI-generated impression of the late comedian. But a representative for one of the podcast hosts behind the special now admits…
Why So Many TikTok Videos Don’t Have Sound Anymore
STARTING THURSDAY,THE SOUNDS on TikTok have gotten a little quieter. That’s because Universal Music Group has removed its catalog from the video-sharing app after the massive music company failed to reach a licensing agreement with TikTok. Taylor Swift, Drake, Bad Bunny, Ariana Grande, and Billie…