WEATHER
Warm and somewhat unsettled weather is still in the forecast for the next few days. Highs will reach the low to mid 80s today and tomorrow:
Spotty storms possible each afternoon through the end of the work week. The HRRR model’s radar simulation for today isn’t impressive:
That’s just one model, of course — averaging out all of the data, here are your storm chances throughout the day:
While your odds of rain in any one particular spot are low, keep the umbrella handy just in case. (That’s pretty much the advice we’ll offer throughout the summer as well.)
The weekend is looking wetter overall, but still not a washout — the most-likely scenario at this point is a dry start to Saturday, then scattered showers and storms becoming likely Saturday afternoon and throughout the day on Sunday:
I wouldn’t cancel anything over the weekend yet, but start thinking about indoor alternatives for any outdoor plans. The weather will dry out by the beginning of next week, and the humidity should be noticeably lower as well.
LINKS
- What it’s like to be struck by lightning.
- Severe storms ripped through Moscow on Monday — some of the video is pretty impressive.
- Less than a year after Hurricane Matthew raked the East Coast, NOAA is forecasting a busier-than-normal hurricane season.
- The National Hurricane Center will issue separate hurricane advisories and storm surge advisories this season.
- Overheated cities face climate change costs twice as high as the rest of the world because of the “urban heat island” effect.
- Scientists have spotted waves rippling through Greenland’s ice, sending a cascade of water and ice out to sea.
- Add nitrous oxide to the list of concerns as more permafrost melts.
- NASA is testing solar panels that unfurl like Fruit Roll-Ups in space.
- In the 1980s, the CIA and the NSA teamed up to covertly steal Venus and Mars data from the Soviets.
- Here are eight surprising things NASA has learned so far from the Juno spacecraft.
- Astronomers have details about the 7th planet in the TRAPPIST-1 system. It’s not exactly welcoming for life.
- Astronomers want to harness the Sun’s spacetime-warping gravity as a lens to image the surface of exoplanets.
- T cells, which protect our bodies from foreign invaders, may also help us think.
