Why it matters: The form is part of a much larger federal investigation into mysterious sightings involving Congress and multiple agencies, including NASA, but that has yet to produce any evidence aliens or extraterrestrial objects.
The race between weather agencies to see who has the most advanced computer models has given way to an international competition over implementing artificial intelligence.
Driving the news: The U.K. Met Office, which already runs one of the top weather forecast models in the world, announced a new partnership on Tuesday with the Alan Turing Institute to develop highly accurate, lower cost forecast models using machine learning and AI techniques.
An unusually powerful storm is forecast to rapidly intensify and bring heavy rains and damaging winds to Ireland and the U.K., with its effects extending into France, Belgium, the Netherlands and other parts of Western Europe.
Driving the news: The timing of the storm is forecast for late Wednesday through the end of the week. The U.K. Met Office took the unusual step of naming the weather system days in advance, assigning it Storm Ciarán.
Why it matters: The moves complete an extreme conservation measure that created a refuge for them on land. It was aimed at ensuring that genetically diverse coral species would survive the bleaching and mortality event.
Halloween trick-or-treaters face the strongest push of cold air so far this season, with forecasters warning of potentially record-low minimum temperatures on Wednesday from the Southern Plains to the Midwest.
The big picture: Some 64.5 million people were under freeze warnings in the U.S., as a "potent cold front" that began sweeping in from Monday was bringing the threat of "freezing to sub-freezing overnight temperatures" from the Southern Plains to the Northeast, per the National Weather Service.
