Sun Pillars Mistaken for UFOs
Posted: 10:00 AM Sun pillars, or light pillars, are vertical columns of light caused by light reflection from ice crystals drifting in Earth’s atmosphere. When seen they are commonly mistaken as a UFO.
Posted: 10:00 AM Sun pillars, or light pillars, are vertical columns of light caused by light reflection from ice crystals drifting in Earth’s atmosphere. When seen they are commonly mistaken as a UFO.
Posted: 8:38 PM The world is safe - at least from one asteroid.
Updated: 11:24 AM A meteor streaked across the sky and exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains with the power of an atomic bomb Friday, its sonic blasts shattering countless windows and injuring nearly 1,000 people.
Updated: 2:40 PM Keeping up with John Nielsen-Gammon could make for a good TV reality show – just make sure you have a 25-hour clock and a handful of Rand McNally maps to chart his many travels.
Updated: 8:04 PM A moderate earthquake has struck in rural Nevada near the California state line.
Posted: 11:08 AM A look at effects in states and provinces in the path of the massive storm that swept across the Northeast U.S. and southern Canada.
Updated: 9:11 AM Blizzard warnings and forecasts of potentially record-breaking snow from New York City to New England are being taken very seriously.
Posted: 8:03 AM A major winter storm heading toward New England could dump as much as 2 feet of snow on the region.
Updated: 10:39 AM The next local National Weather Service Skywarn Training will be held Tuesday, February 12.
Posted: 8:01 AM Texas continues to suffer a serious rainfall deficit and is on track to experience the second-worst drought on record, the state climatologist said Tuesday.
Posted: 9:20 PM A tsunami of .9 meters (3 feet) has been measured in the Solomon Islands after a strong earthquake in the South Pacific.
Updated: 9:24 AM COLLEGE STATION, TX-- Wednesday night the KBTX Sports Department continued its basketball domination over the KBTX Weather Department with a 15-8 win at Reed Arena.
Posted: 6:35 PM There are reports of people trapped in homes and businesses, after a massive storm system that's been raking the Southeast pounded the Georgia town of Adairsville, about 60 miles northwest of Atlanta.
Updated: 9:24 AM As a cold front / dry line combination moves through Texas and towards the Brazos Valley, a chance of showers and thunderstorms is in the forecast this Tuesday. By late this afternoon / early evening, a few thunderstorms could bring a brief round of severe weather.
Updated: 9:19 AM Congress is sending a $50.5 billion emergency relief measure for Superstorm Sandy victims to President Obama for his signature.
Posted: 11:54 AM Months after Superstorm Sandy, at least 3,500 families are still living in hotels in New York and New Jersey.
Posted: 8:11 AM Some Northeast residents are spending this morning thawing out pipes because of the freezing cold.
Posted: 12:07 PM An Alabama interstate where hundreds of people spent a freezing night has been reopened north of Birmingham.
Posted: 10:24 AM The U.S. Department of Agriculture is releasing its final crop report for 2012, providing a glimpse of what last year's drought cost the nation's farmers and others.
Posted: 9:53 AM The National Weather Service has started the upgrade to Dual-Pol technology on the KHGX radar site as of Thursday, January 10th.
Posted: 8:09 AM Thousands of people who work in businesses tied to Texas' rice industry are bracing for a second year of devastating losses after a water board decided to halt irrigation unless there is significant rain by March.
Posted: 12:21 PM According to the latest data, the NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center has determined that 2012 was the warmest year on record by a decently wide margin.
