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For decades, weather modification technology has quietly helped communities fight drought, invigorate agricultural production, and enhance public safety. In recent years, this technology has become the subject of fear-inducing myths and conspiracy theories which suggest that governments and other powerful entities can intricately manipulate the weather on a large scale, and do so with malicious intentions. The truth? Weather modification is a strictly-regulated tool with limited, yet valuable...

Social media resembles a double-edged sword when it comes to the weather. On one side, platforms like TikTok and X (formerly Twitter) offer real-time updates from trusted meteorological sources before, during and after severe weather events. On the other side, however, these same platforms have become inundated by misinformation and clickbait, especially during hurricane season.

Summer in North America is a collision of extreme weather seasons. While the Atlantic and Pacific coasts brace for tropical weather threats, tornadoes endanger the U.S. Midwest, and heatwaves stretch across the continent and intensify the risk for drought and fire. Much of the Western U.S. and Canada’s wildlands cope with destructive wildfires each year— a hazard made more challenging by increasingly drier and hotter environments. The 2023 wildfire season was not only Canada’s worst on record...

This year’s Atlantic hurricane season came to life with the help of a resilient overachiever. Between June 28th and 29th, a freshly formed tropical depression rapidly intensified into Hurricane Beryl, breaking its first of many records by becoming the easternmost Atlantic hurricane to form in June. Hurricane Beryl continued to rapidly intensify before it reached Category 4 status on the Saffir-Simpson scale...