Florida Tornado Threat Map Shows Where Dangerous Storms Most Likely to Hit

There's an increased risk of tornadoes, damaging winds, and heavy rain as the powerful storm system sweeps eastward.

Poitrey Canyon Fire in southeastern Colorado remains at about 2,100 acres, now 50% contained

Crews are responding to a fire in Las Animas County Friday night.
WLRN

Why the Southeast is burning – extreme drought is only part of the cause

Why is a region of the U.S. more often known for thunderstorms and humidity in spring seeing so many wildfires? Here’s what’s ...

Florida wildfire map shows over 100 active fires Sunday. Here's where

Here's where all the active fires across the Sunshine State are today, according to The Florida Forest Service.

Defining relative humidity and how it relates to rain | Hey Ray

If it is too dry at the surface, the raindrops will evaporate before they hit the ground. This rain shows on the radar but ...
IEEE

Portable Relative Humidity Sensor Using Agarose-Coated Polymer Optical Fibers

Abstract: This work presents a compact smartphone-integrated relative humidity (RH) sensor based on intensity modulation using agarose-coated polymer optical fibers (POFs). The sensing architecture ...
Ars Technica

Google Maps gets its biggest navigation redesign in a decade, plus more AI

Google Maps is one of the company’s core products, which means it hasn’t escaped the shift to Gemini. There will be more opportunities to converse with a robot in Google Maps starting today, but there ...
PNAS

A theoretical index for understanding distinct land relative humidity trends in observations, reanalyses, and models

Understanding how land relative humidity (RH) has changed and how well Earth system models capture those changes is critical, yet progress has been impeded by limited coverage of observations, biases ...
IEEE

A Deep Learning-Based Fusion Framework for Temperature-Aware Relative Humidity Sensing Using Dual Fiber-Optic Sensors

Abstract: This work presents a fiber-optic sensor fusion framework for temperature-aware relative humidity sensing. The proposed system integrates a micro-loop resonator (MLR) coated with hydroxyethyl ...