It’s been in the news for the past few days – a Lunar Eclipse is set to unfold late on July 4 – early July 5, 2020. While we think of an eclipse as an obscuration of a celestial body, this won’t be your typical lunar eclipse. What Type of Eclipse Is It? While technically still a lunar eclipse, we … Read More
Perseid Meteor Shower Peeks Through Monday
It’s the time of year where the fireballs shoot through the sky and entertain millions of sky-watchers across the Northern Hemisphere. The Perseid Meteor shower is one of the grander astronomical events and it will be at its peek Saturday through Monday night. The mid August celestial sensation can best be seen with clear skies on Sunday night. The Perseid … Read More
International Space Station Pass Tonight
Even though it’s just a little bright dot in the sky, it’s still pretty awesome to see the International Space Station whiz overhead in the night sky. The ISS will make a couple of very vivid passes over Ohio the last couple of nights. Friday should see it visible for around three minutes with Saturday allowing for around six minutes … Read More
40 Years Ago
While the weather on this January 26th, 2018 is quiet, a winter storm 40 years ago to this date was wreaking havoc across the Buckeye State. It came to be known as the Blizzard of 1978. We will go back into that time period and describe how the storm impacted Ohio. The day before (January 25th, 1978), there were two … Read More
Relatively Quiet Thanksgiving Week Ahead 11/20/2017
After a fairly active weather weekend across the Ohio and Mississippi River Valleys, the weather is forecast to be tranquil for the most part during the next seven days. While there will be multiple low pressure areas to move across the US, moisture will not be as abundant as this Friday Night and Saturday last week. The watch/warning map this … Read More
Severe Weather This Afternoon in the Carolinas; Colder Air on the Way
Severe weather is occurring this hour in portions of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. As a result, the Storm Prediction Center has issued a Tornado Watch for this region. The watch is in effect through 9:00 PM EDT tonight. There have already been multiple reports of tornadoes on the ground via dual-pol doppler radar and spotters. Right along the … Read More
ISS Flyover: Two Great Passes This Week
If you’re like me, you think it’s cool to watch the International Space Station fly overhead. Ok, not everyone is like me and my wife thinks it’s a little odd too (although she did ask me once if there were still people on the ISS and she did admit it was neat watching it fly over the first time she … Read More
The Great American Eclipse is Tomorrow!
This is the third Neoweather article on the upcoming solar eclipse. If you haven’t seen them already check out Brian Ivey’s article and Jim Martin’s article. Tomorrow is the day we have been waiting for, a total solar eclipse will cross a 65 mile swath across the United States from Oregon to South Carolina. While only a small fraction of the … Read More
Solar Eclipse Next Week
As we get nearer the solar eclipse of 2017 next week, here is some information that will help you enjoy it safely… The path of the solar eclipse will begin in the Pacific Northwest. It will end its US journey along the Carolina Atlantic coast. While the entire lower 48 of the United States will see some the eclipse, areas … Read More
What You Should Know About The Perseid Meteor Shower
If you like astronomy and cool sights in the sky then you will definitely want to look up tonight. The Perseid meteor shower will be at its peak tonight and will be visible across much of the northern hemisphere. August is known as ‘meteor month’ because of the multiple shows the caused by outer space rocks streaking through the outer … Read More