A record atmospheric river hit the West Coast hard over the weekend, causing flash floods, debris flows, and even death. The storm, which started in Northern California at the end of last week, brought up to 9 inches of rain to Southern and Central California over three days, causing deadly flash floods that claimed two […]
Folks who miss out on the Taurid meteor showers early in November will have another opportunity to spot shooting stars on the night of Nov. 16-17 as the Leonids peak, according to the American Meteor Society. The Leonid meteor shower has produced some of the biggest meteor storms in history with thousands of meteors per hour. […]
An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history, according to a new study — and the way it retreated could have big implications for global sea level rise. As AccuWeather reports, the Hektoria Glacier, roughly the size of Philadelphia, is on the Antarctic Peninsula, a spindly chain of […]
Half a century ago, one of the worst maritime disasters in U.S. history unfolded when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald cargo freighter sank in Lake Superior amid a potent storm that stirred up towering waves and tropical-storm-force winds. Decades later, the tragedy serves as a reminder of how ferocious the fall storm season can be in […]
Typhoon Fung-wong ravaged the northern Philippines over the weekend, killing at least two people and cutting off some towns as residents emerged on Monday morning after a sleepless night to start assessing the damage. As Reuters reports, more than one million people were evacuated before Fung-wong made landfall as a super typhoon in the eastern […]
Severe weather is rare in New England during November, but earlier this week, a damaging storm ripped through the region in a tornado-like event that meteorologists called a “gustnado.” As AccuWeather reports, the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Boston, Massachusetts stated that a “gustnado” – a short-lived, ground-level swirl of wind that can form […]
A new climate analysis released by AccuWeather on Monday has revealed a 2.7% decline in total annual precipitation across the contiguous United States since 1995. This equates to approximately a 1% decrease in rainfall per 11 years. The analysis uses AccuWeather’s Data Suite – the most detailed, complete and accurate global collection of historic, current and forecast […]
A super close Supermoon will occur this week. The moon will be as close to Earth as it can get this month, fully illuminated for skywatchers, according to the Earth Sky, a science website that provides daily news and information on astronomy and space. As USA Today reports, the supermoon is set to rise on Wednesday, […]
Hurricane Melissa tied the all-time strongest landfall on record in the Atlantic Basin as it crashed ashore in Jamaica at Category 5 intensity last week. As The Weather Channel (TWC) reports, this landfall tied the following long-standing Atlantic Basin records for most intense landfall by both pressure and wind speed: – Lowest pressure: The Labor Day 1935 […]
That coveted extra hour for millions of Americans will come in early November, as the clocks “fall back” an hour and daylight saving time comes to an end for the year. It will pick up again in March, when the clocks “spring forward” and we lose an hour. The twice-annual time change is meant to add more […]