Teo Blašković founded The Watchers in 2011 and edited it until 2026, covering seismic and volcanic activity, extreme weather, space weather and near-Earth objects. Articles on this page are his archive.
A cluster of powerful thunderstorms swept through the Northern Plains and Midwest, U.S. on July 5, 2022, bringing destructive winds and flooding rain from South Dakota to northern Iowa. The storm left thousands of people without power, extensive damage and at least 4 people injured.
A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2022 NF will fly past Earth at a distance of just 0.2 LD / 0.00060 AU (89 328 km / 55 506 miles) at 13:00 UTC on July 7, 2022. This is the 65th known asteroid to fly past Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year and the third so far this month.
A newly-discovered asteroid designated 2022 NE will fly past Earth at a distance of 0.3 LD / 0.00091 AU (135 958 km / 84 480 miles) at 10:55 UTC on July 6, 2022. This is the 64th known asteroid to fly past Earth within 1 lunar distance since the start of the year and the second so far this month.
Tropical Storm “Aere” formed on July 2, 2022, as the 4th named storm of the 2022 Pacific typhoon season. The storm made its first landfall in Okinawa, Japan on the same day and reached Kyushu on July 4, making landfall near Sasebo, Nagasaki, shortly before 21:00 UTC (06:00 LT, July 5).
Heavy rains continued falling over Australia’s east coast on July 5, 2022, forcing more than 50 000 people to evacuate their homes, up from 30 000 on July 4. While some parts of the region saw a year’s worth of rain within just 3 days, this heavy rainfall event is still not over.
The number of people that died in the massive landslide that hit Manipur’s Noney district on June 29, 2022, rose to 47 today.
Volcanic activity at Guatemala’s Fuego volcano intensified on July 2, 2022, with abundant degassing and new lava flow reaching at least 1 km (0.6 miles).
Driven by rising food and energy costs, consumer prices in Eurozone jumped 8.6% over the year through June, hitting another record high since the creation of Euro in 1999.
A Bailey bridge, connecting two strategic locations in Kurung Kumey district of Arunachal Pradesh, was washed away in a flash flood that hit the region on July 2, 2022.
A sharp spike in the frequency of noctilucent clouds was detected at the end of June 2022. This is the largest NLCs spike in the last 15 years.
