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Everything you need to know about coronavirus

As COVID-19 spreads around the United States and the world, fear is also spreading and both may not let up for many more months. With the total confirmed cases closing in on the six-digit threshold, with potentially many thousands of other cases still unconfirmed, here are answers to some basic questions people may have about the virus, the disease and what relationship it has to weather.Here is...

Gusty winds following clipper storm to create flood risk, pounding surf along Great Lakes

A period of strong winds will immediately follow a clipper storm and is forecast to create pounding waves and flooding along the shores of lakes Michigan, Erie, Huron and Ontario to end this week.Gusty north to northwest winds will be associated with the backside of a vigorous storm from western Canada, known as an Alberta Clipper. Wind blown waves from Lake Michigan break around the Shedd...

Axiom Space makes deal with SpaceX to send customers to space station next year

Axiom Space says it's signed a contract with SpaceX to fly three paying passengers and an Axiom-trained commander to the International Space Station aboard a Crew Dragon spaceship as soon as the second half of next year. If Axiom Space, SpaceX and NASA can stick to the schedule, that would qualify the 10-day trip as the first honest-to-goodness privately funded mission to the space station....

Perseverance! NASA reveals the name of its next Mars rover, suggested by a seventh-grader

NASA's next Mars rover was named Perseverance today, following up on a suggestion made by a seventh-grader in Virginia. More than 28,000 entries were submitted in NASA's "Name the Rover" contest, and internet users racked up 770,000 online votes for their favorites. Judges selected the entry from Alex Mather, a student at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Va., as the...

Parts of Northern California to get their 1st rainfall in over a month as storm targets Northwest

The active weather pattern over the Northwest brought another storm to the region to end the week. A fresh batch of rain and snow is expected, with forecasters monitoring the potential for snow in the Seattle area.The storm system that has been spinning over the Gulf of Alaska over the past couple of days began to move toward the coast of British Columbia on Thursday. This brought a cold front to...