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- There are no tropical cyclones at this time. NHC (National Hurricane Center) Atlantic · 1m
- Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook NHC (National Hurricane Center) Atlantic · 4h
- NOAA weather modeling hits key milestone with Rapid Refresh Forecast System debut NOAA News · 20h
- Maine partners update shoreline maps to improve coastal planning NOAA News · 20h
- California coastal water levels break records NOAA News · 21h
- The Polar Vortex Is Collapsing in November: What It Could Mean for Your Winter Severe Weather Europe · 1d
- NOAA, NASA release measurements of 2026 ozone hole NOAA News · 1d
- NASA reveals a haunting skull hidden in Antarctica’s ice ScienceDaily Weather · 3d
- The asteroid killed the dinosaurs. Why did crocodiles survive? ScienceDaily Weather · 6d
- November Weather Forecast: Super El Niño Takes Control as Winter 2026/2027 Approaches Severe Weather Europe · 6d
- Scientists confirm global warming is accelerating faster than ever recorded ScienceDaily Weather · 6d
- Kirby Struhar NOAA News · 7d
- 128,000-year-old ice in Tibet could rewrite climate history ScienceDaily Weather · 7d
- Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” could raise sea levels twice as much as predicted ScienceDaily Weather · 8d
CLIMATE
- Lluvias torrenciales e inundaciones repentinas azotan el suroeste de Estados Unidos y la península de Florida Yale Climate Connections · 2h
- Oil companies spent over $2 million on Meta ads in the lead-up to the midterms Yale Climate Connections · 4h
- Some states now recognize climate-literate students Yale Climate Connections · 4h
- Warming UK seas could ‘fundamentally reshape marine ecosystems’ – report Guardian Climate · 9h
- Typhoons batter East Asia as El Niño makes Pacific 'burn with fever' BBC Science & Environment · 17h
- ‘Discontent and distrust’: annual social cohesion checkup shows exactly what’s making Australia angry Guardian Climate · 1d
- Climate resources taken offline under Trump now back online Yale Climate Connections · 1d
- William meets firefighters who tackled summer blazes BBC Science & Environment · 1d
- Funding to help poorer countries cope with climate crisis has stalled, says UN Guardian Climate · 1d
- Delhi air quality worsens ahead of Diwali as firework restrictions enter force BBC Science & Environment · 1d
- Prince William says UK faces terrifying risk of more wildfires due to climate change BBC Science & Environment · 1d
- How penguin poo is making Antarctic snow melt faster Guardian Climate · 1d
- Kashmir’s potato pits are vanishing – and generations of knowledge could be buried for ever Guardian Climate · 1d
- Bearing the borderlands Yale Climate Connections · 2d
SPACE WEATHER & SKY
- Amendment 81: New Opportunity: Astrophysics Theory Program NASA Science · 12m
- Midwestern City Lights NASA Science · 1h
- NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from Florida Students NASA Science · 1h
- Spacewalk Begins to Install Last Roll-Out Solar Array NASA Science · 2h
- Hubble Learns Galactic History From Stars NASA Science · 3h
- Astronauts Suit Up for Final Power Upgrade Spacewalk NASA Science · 4h
- APOD: 2026 November 5 – Enceladus in Silhouette NASA Science · 11h
- Cyprus: Island of Snakes, Cats, and Ophiolites NASA Science · 11h
- NASA Announces X-70 Experimental Aircraft to Advance Flight Research NASA Science · 15h
- Shine Bright for Voyager’s Light‑Day NASA Science · 15h
- NASA Shares Plans to Accelerate Artemis, Return to Moon NASA · 19h
- NASA Announces Ka-Band Satellite Relay Awards for Space Communications NASA · 22h
- NASA Navigation Experiment Shows Promise for Planetary Landings NASA · 23h
- NASA Space Grant Students Fuel Agency’s Inspiration Tour NASA · 1d
TODAY IN WEATHER HISTORY — NOVEMBER 5
17TH CENTURY
- 1659 — Earthquake strikes Italy: Panaija, Soriano, Polia; about 2,035 deaths recorded. source: NOAA NCEI Significant Earthquake Database
19TH CENTURY
- 1884 — Earthquake (magnitude 7.5) strikes Panama: Aquadas [Aguadulce], Pacora, with tsunami. source: NOAA NCEI Significant Earthquake Database
20TH CENTURY
- 1904 — Earthquake (magnitude 6.3) strikes Taiwan: Jiayi; about 145 deaths recorded. source: NOAA NCEI Significant Earthquake Database
- 1938 — Earthquake (magnitude 7.7) strikes Japan: Near E Coast Honshu; about 1 deaths recorded, with tsunami. source: NOAA NCEI Significant Earthquake Database
- 1938 — Earthquake (magnitude 7.6) strikes Japan: Near E Coast Honshu, with tsunami. source: NOAA NCEI Significant Earthquake Database
- 1951 — Hakoneyama (Honshu-Japan) erupts; about 2 deaths recorded. source: NOAA NCEI Significant Volcanic Eruptions Database
- 1952 — An earthquake struck the Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering a major tsunami that affected the Kuril Islands and other parts of the Pacific Ocean. source: Wikipedia: 1952 Severo-Kurilsk earthquake
- 1991 — Tropical Storm Thelma causes flash floods in the Philippine city of Ormoc, killing more than 4,900 people. source: Wikipedia: Tropical Storm Thelma
- 1998 N. AMERICA — Tropical Storm Mitch makes landfall near 26.2N, 81.9W as a tropical storm (about 63 mph winds). source: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 Atlantic best-track data
21ST CENTURY
- 2001 N. AMERICA — Hurricane Michelle makes landfall near 24.3N, 78.0W as a Category 1 hurricane (about 92 mph winds). source: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 Atlantic best-track data
- 2009 N. AMERICA — Hurricane Ida makes landfall near 12.9N, 83.6W as a Category 1 hurricane (about 81 mph winds). source: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 Atlantic best-track data
- 2015 — An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing. source: Wikipedia: iron ore
- 2015 — An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing. source: Wikipedia: Iron ore
Compiled from Wikipedia's November 5 page and "On this day" feed (weather/hazard entries only), NOAA NCEI (National Centers for Environmental Information) significant earthquake, volcano and billion-dollar disaster databases, NOAA NHC HURDAT2 hurricane landfalls (1851–present), and the NOAA SPC tornado database (1950–present). Every entry links to its source.
EARTHQUAKES
- M 4.5 - South Indian Ocean USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) M4.5+ Today · 13m
- M 5.0 - 111 km W of Petrolia, CA USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) M4.5+ Today · 21m
- M 5.1 - 19 km NNW of Masumbwe, Tanzania USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) M4.5+ Today · 1h
- M 4.8 - Sea of Okhotsk USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) M4.5+ Today · 6h
- M 4.6 - south of the Fiji Islands USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) M4.5+ Today · 16h
- M 4.5 - 2 km W of Chinandega, Nicaragua USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) M4.5+ Today · 20h
EARTH, OCEANS & ATMOSPHERE
- Australia approves seabed site where a Japanese company will store carbon pollution Phys.org Earth · 7h
- Earth atmosphere emulators could enable faster and more accurate weather predictions Phys.org Earth Sciences · 15h
- Northern permafrost greening masks declining plant resilience, study finds Phys.org Earth · 20h
- Long-term temperature records reveal a surprising picture of climate change on Kilimanjaro Phys.org Earth Sciences · 22h
- Satellite analysis finds little evidence that data centers cause widespread ground warming Phys.org Earth · 23h
- Fireworks provide a few minutes of joy, but the economic and environmental costs last much longer Phys.org Earth · 23h
- A new tool helps target conservation and pollution control on the Ganges River Phys.org Earth · 1d
- New modeling links gaps in Earth's geological record to rising and sinking continents Phys.org Earth Sciences · 1d
- Study reveals how five tuna species respond to changing Mediterranean conditions Phys.org Earth Sciences · 1d
- Scientists develop novel model to forecast internal solitary waves from multiple sources in the Sulu Sea Phys.org Earth Sciences · 1d
- Tiny melt traces shed light on the Colorado Plateau's explosive past Phys.org Earth Sciences · 1d
- Research reveals accelerating sea-level rise around Ireland Phys.org Earth Sciences · 1d
- North Atlantic's 'cold blob' may contain climate nuance Phys.org Earth Sciences · 1d
- Southern Ocean waters reveal distinct nutrient recycling pathways during decades-long journeys north Phys.org Earth Sciences · 1d
NEW PAPERS & STUDIES
- The Role of Turbulence in Ice Microphysics and Sedimentation in Arctic Mixed‐Phase Clouds: Evidence From Yearlong Observations AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 13h
- Shallow Slip Deficit: An Intrinsic Property of Continental Earthquakes, Slightly Enhanced by Fault Maturity AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 14h
- Detecting the Oceanic Moho Using Teleseismic P‐Wave Coda Autocorrelations of Ocean Bottom Seismograph Records AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 14h
- Intense Magnetopause Erosion at Earth During the May 2024 Solar Storm AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 14h
- Temporal Scaling of Hydrological Signals Reveals Forcing Persistence and Watershed Filtering Across the Contiguous U.S. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 1d
- Large‐Scale Coherent Southward Displacement of the Indochina Block: Constraints From New Late Cretaceous Paleomagnetic Studies AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 1d
- Recent Decline in Global Atmospheric COS Driven by Reduced Anthropogenic CS2 Emissions AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 1d
- Recent Slowing Arctic‐Amplified Warming Drives an Unprecedented Water Recovery in the World's Most Voluminous Freshwater Lake AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 2d
- Iceberg‐Generated Waves From SWOT: Disintegration of Iceberg A‐76A in the Southern Ocean AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 2d
- Aircraft Icing: In‐Cloud Measurements and Explicit Prediction of Supercooled Large Droplets in Icing Clouds of Eastern China Using Multi‐Moment Microphysics Schemes AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 2d
- Specialized SWOT SSH Data Assimilation Improves the Representation of Multiscale Variability in the Ocean Model AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 2d
- Persistence and Dynamics of an Sq‐like Mid‐Latitude Current Vortex During the May 2024 Superstorm AGU (American Geophysical Union) Geophysical Research Letters · 2d
- Brazil’s data-driven plan for climate-resilient healthcare Nature Climate Change · 2d
- Time to drop the no-policy business-as-usual baselines Nature Climate Change · 2d