Fires Rage in Arizona: Hot, Dry Weather Parched Vegetation and Turned the State Into a Tinderbox

Cold weather cost New England electric customers nearly $1.8 billion in one month; A new study suggests ways to mitigate fuel shortages

Use of additional Metop-C and Fengyun-3 C/D data improves regional weather forecasts

The most extreme space weather occurs when the Sun blasts billions of tons of energized particles toward Earth at speeds up to 6.7 million mph (3,000 km/s). Known as coronal mass ejections, these explosions can cause intense geomagnetic storms, as well as negatively affect astronauts and spacecraft.