Christmas Star shines tonight, a close asteroid passes in January

A once-in-a-lifetime event is happening tonight. I’m sure you’ve already heard about it. But I don’t know if anyone has really broken it down to explain just how special it is. The “Christmas Star” will…

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Mr. Tornado – an American Experience film

PBS presented a fantastic documentary on Tetsuya Fujita – the man behind the Fujita scale. For those who are curious, “Ted” Fujita moved to the United States from Japan. And used his background in engineering…

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Mississippi’s average COVID count has more-than-tripled since Election Day

I noticed an alarming stat today when The Mississippi Department of Health released their daily COVID numbers update: We had more cases tallied in one day than in the whole first month tallied cases in…

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2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season: An exaggerated example of an unnerving trend

As we get toward the end of a long – and I mean LONG – Atlantic Hurricane Season, I wanted to pause for a moment and reflect on the trend we are seeing in the…

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Wx Info: Answering “We made it to the end of the Greek Alphabet, now what?!”

The 2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season has been rather active. So active that we just had Hurricane Zeta. I’ve heard from a good number of folks asking “We made it to the end of the Greek…

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From Climate Change to COVID-19: Science takes time, trust the process

A lot of people, when they have an idea about how something works, say, “I have a theory….” But they don’t. People who say, “I have a theory…” often just have a hypothesis. Theories take…

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2020 Orionid meteor shower in the South – look East(ish), then up

If you are looking to catch a glimpse at a few passing meteor streaks, try to find the constellation Orion in the night sky, then look up. What you’ll see Head out after midnight, or…

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