What do the recent Midwest tornadoes mean for Georgia’s climate future?
Georgia's state climatologist Bill Murphey knows firsthand what it's like to live through extreme weather. When an E4 tornado swept through Newnan in March...
Watch the Skies: Comet Leonard Update
Comet Leonard is continuing to brighten and this week is the best time to check it out.
A couple weeks back we took a look...
The Sky this Week: Orion rising
We're headed into the winter months which can mean only one thing: the mighty Orion has returned.
The sun may be going down at 5:15PM...
When a rainy year goes dry: An Intro to ENSO
Weather stations across North Georgia have had quite the busy year. The station in Cornelia had already exceeded the yearly rainfall average by 1"...
Watch the Skies: Comet Leonard
It's been a while since we had a comet bright enough to talk about. You have to go all the way back to Comet...
Longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years wows stargazers
In the wee hours of November 19, the moon spent 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds drenched in the Earth's shadow. Stargazers from...
Watch the Skies: Longest partial lunar eclipse in centuries
The talk of the sky this coming week is a partial lunar eclipse. This isn't some ordinary eclipse, though, so if you don't mind...
The Sky this Week: Atoptics
For this week's edition we are going to change gears entirely. As John Cleese would say: "and now for something completely different".
There is a...
The Sky this Week: What makes a “solar storm”?
It's been an eventful week for the Sun. The first large, Earth-directed flare of the new solar cycle made every major news outlet with...
The Sky this Week: Neptune
-Far out in the unfathomable reaches of our Solar System lies the last planet: Neptune.
Neptune was first noted by Galileo back in 1612, but...
The Sky this Week: Uranus
This week we'll continue to explore the gas giants of the outer solar system by taking a peek at the planet that has been...
The Sky this Week: Jupiter
After a VERY cloudy week overall we will hopefully be seeing some slightly better stargazing conditions this week. This will make for a perfect...