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Hello everyone! Welcome to all of our new followers we picked up from the featured post today, and thanks to everyone for following! We’re getting a lot of questions about specific locations for viewing the meteor shower tonight, and we’ll try to answer some but we may not be able to get to all of you. However, you can look up your city on AccuWeather.com and see an hourly forecast that will show you the clearest times for your area.

The best way to see the meteors is to move away from city lights, and to check at the darkest parts of the night, around 3 or 4 a.m. We love getting your questions and photo submissions, feel free to send us anything at anytime, and we’ll go through and answer them. For some of the time-sensitive things we’ll do the best we can to answer you in time!

Took this in Hawaii but failed to back up the high quality version of the image so I had to export it from my Facebook in low quality after my computer crashed…sorry. 

Spectacular Meteor Shower Should Be Visible to Most

One of the best meteor shower events of the year will be happening this weekend, peaking late tonight. Most of the country should have at least a decent view.

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The Troubling Future of Coral reefs in an Acidifying Ocean

by Laetitia Plaisance

Scientists don’t often get the opportunity to travel through time. But nestled among the beautiful coral reefs of Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a place that provides a glimpse today of what could be the biggest future threat to coral reef survival: Ocean Acidification. Ocean acidification is occurring because the ocean has absorbed about a third of the carbon dioxide (CO₂) released into the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. That carbon is changing the chemistry of the ocean, making seawater more acidic. Reef biologists expect this to be a bigger and bigger problem as more and more CO₂ enters the atmosphere.

Normanby Island is a kind of “time vortex” where we can witness how reefs might respond to acidifying oceans. Here cool carbon dioxide naturally bubbles out of volcanic cracks in the shallow sea floor. Away from the CO₂ seeps the water has a pH that is normal for modern day oceans, but as you swim closer to the seeps the water gets more and more acidic. I was fortunate to join scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science who are using this natural pH gradient to peer into the future…

(read more: Smithsonian Ocean Portal)     (photo: Laetitia Plaisance)

DC to NYC Severe Storm, Flash Flood Risk

A vigorous disturbance has the potential to bring severe thunderstorms across the mid-Atlantic on Friday, including major cities such as Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, New York and Albany.

Philippine Capital Under Water, New Zealand Volcano Erupts

Torrential rain is causing devastating flooding in the Philippines, while a New Zealand volcano erupts for the first time in 115 years. Rare snow was flying in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Ernesto Brings Tremendous Flooding Risk

As Ernesto continues to move westward, the weather will go downhill rapidly in Belize and the rest of the Yucatan Peninsula into Tuesday evening.