Terrifying footage shows hikers caught in an eruption after climbing to the crater of Santiaguito Volcano in Guatemala yesterday.
Giant rocks were falling everywhere. This was a near fatal mistake. They are incredibly lucky to be alive.( April 20)
Mid-Atlantic gang — IMPORTANT ⚠️ severe weather briefing for tomorrow. (Specific breakdown after 4 minutes).
Takeaways:
• possible supercells and likely squall
• multiple rounds possible
• storms contain 60-75 mph winds
• tornado risk
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This is DC's most severe winter so far since 2009-2010
Each of D.C.'s winter months have been colder than normal and snow and ice have been on the ground for long stretches. Taking everything together, the Midwest Regional Climate Center’s Accumulated Winter Season Severity Index ranks this winter so far right on the borderline between severe and extreme.
The index takes into account how cold it’s been, how much snow has fallen as well as well as the duration of snow cover. This year’s severity rating ranks as the highest in D.C. since 2009-2010 which was D.C.'s snowiest on record. That season wasn’t especially cold, but the incredible snowfalls propelled it into the extreme category.
At the moment, this winter ranks ahead of 2013-2014, the next most severe winter in the last 15 years, but there’s a chance that it will ultimately fall behind it in the rankings. That winter 12 years ago featured a cold and snowy March, which bumped up its rating from severe to extreme.
The winter of 1960-1961 was the most severe on record. December, January and February were all much colder than normal and a hefty 40.3 inches of snow fell. It made this winter look somewhat tame by comparison.
Noyaki, or traditional controlled burning of fields near Mt. Aso, Japan, is a centuries-old agricultural practice used to clear old crops, control pests, and fertilize the soil with ash.
A textbook ice avalanche here. Precursory signals before the collapse ‼️, disintegration of the structure 🎳 and transformation from solid mechanics 🧊 to fluid dynamics 🌊 - granular flow ❄️ - and finally: formation of a suspended powder cloud ❄️🌬💨.
Fiery Mud Volcano Eruption!
The Daşmərdan (Dashmardan) mud volcano in Azerbaijan erupted ~16:50 on the 30th Jan 2026. The eruption lasted ~15 mins. Daşmərdan had previous documented eruptions in 1866, 1954, 1976, 1986 and 2011.
Video: kohne.mehle
As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. taught us, darkness cannot drive out darkness, and hate cannot drive out hate. Only light and love can do that. So today, let’s remember our responsibilities to march hand in hand, to stand peacefully with dignity and purpose in the ongoing fight for justice. To organize. To mobilize. To vote. To believe, no matter how far away the mountaintop might feel, it is in our capacity to change our communities and our country for the better.
After a certain age, your parents slowly become your children.
They ask simple questions, repeat stories, and depend on your patience the way you once depended on theirs. Very few understand this role reversal. What looks like innocence or inconvenience is really time coming full circle. Don’t correct them harshly. Don’t rush them. Care for them the way they once protected you. This is not a burden. It is repayment, quietly wrapped as love.
A few standout facts from DC's 2025 weather 👇
• Coolest year since 2014
• Dry year: 35.56" of rain, the least since 2016
• Most snow since 2016: 16.3" total
• Only 1 record high (85° on March 31); no record cold days
• Extremes: 99° (June 24) to 15° (Jan. 22–23)
@Rainmaker1973 Hmm. Looks very EDM festival-ey. But the best video examples I’ve seen were captured during a night earthquake that happened in Mexico a few years back. It was wild. And it was more sustained - which ruled out power flashes