Mark Veillette News Today

The return of spring in the Northern Hemisphere touches off tornado season. A tornado's twisting funnel of dust and debris seems an unmistakable sight. But that sight can be obscured to radar, the tool of meteorologists. It's hard to know exactly whe

TorNet, a public artificial intelligence dataset, could help models reveal when and why tornadoes form, improving forecasters' ability to issue warnings.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory has released an open-source dataset containing thousands of radar images depicting nearly every U.S. tornado to occur in the past decade. The dataset can serve as a benchmark to enable researchers to build artificial intelligence algorithms capable of detecting and predicting tornadoes.

Two airboats collided upon entering a “sharp blind curve” in part of the St. Johns Water Management District’s Blue Cypress Conservation Area.

One person was flown to the hospital following an airboat vs. boat collision on Saturday near the Blue Cypress recreational area west of Armory Road. Details ...