Yes, it's called 'global warming'.
I gets better...
"We're getting various descriptions of lights in the sky," he said. "Everything from green lights to planes going down."
Around 8:30 p.m., the National Weather Service in Taunton started receiving dozens of phone calls from witnesses who saw a "huge fireball moving from west to east," said meteorologist Eleanor Vallier-Talbot.
"We have no clue what it was. That's not our department," she said.
Police and Coast Guard officials in Connecticut said there were reports of everything from meteors and missiles to multicolored objects in the sky from Windham in the eastern part of the state to Branford, along Long Island Sound near New Haven.
Firefighters in Branford responded to several reports of a possible plane crash in Long Island Sound in the Thimble Island area. But a search did not turn up anything and was called off at about 8:50 p.m. after the Coast Guard learned of the meteor shower.
"We got about a half-dozen calls on it, people seeing a large orange ball landing in Long Island Sound," said Branford Deputy Fire Chief Bill Pepe.
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/connecticut/ny-bc-ct--meteorshower0424apr24,0,7518443.story?coll=ny-region-apconnecticut
If it's not "social science", no. They don't. It's not even required to graduate HS in LAUSD any more.
What I don't understand is why the media constantly describes a bolide or fireball as a "meteor shower"