The West is starting to feel the heat as summer jumps ahead of spring for control of the thermostat. Numerous record warm highs and lows are possible across the region early to midweek. Places like Portland, Seattle, Sacramento, Las Vegas and Phoenix will all be sweating it out in the week ahead. But rain and storms will roll in late Wednesday, bringing a cooldown for much of the region. Time it out here.

High above Pumoyongcuo Lake on the Tibetan Plateau, astrophotographers Angel An and Shuchang Dong captured over 100 rare red sprites in a single night. These fleeting electrical discharges, triggered by high-peak current lightning, illuminated the sky above a massive thunderstorm stretching from the Ganges Plain to Tibet’s foothills. This rare and breathtaking event in 2022, now the focus of a groundbreaking study, showcases one of South Asia’s most spectacular sprite displays ever recorded.

An iceberg broke off of the Antarctic ice sheet, and as scientists studied the deep ocean where the ice once was, they found ecosystems teeming with sea spiders, corals, ice fish and possibly dozens of new species. The discovery could provide new information about how deep-sea life changes as the planet warms.

Tornadoes can strike in any month, but areas of the country are at a bigger risk depending on the month. Here is the breakdown by season.

How hard can rain really fall, and how much can fall in a minute or an hour? Let us shower you with some interesting precipitation facts and unleash the downpour of knowledge.