In recent months, our sun has ramped up activity, with giant flares erupting off the surface and belching streams of plasma and charged particles into space. Several of the solar storms have been aimed at our planet, and when they do, they trigger severe geomagnetic storms and supercharged dazzling displays of the northern lights. As NBC News […]
If you watched the Buffalo Bills defeat the San Francisco 49er’s on Sunday night football, you noticed the blizzard-like conditions on the field. Across the Great Lakes and interior Northeast, the first significant lake-effect snow event were underway over the weekend, and AccuWeather meteorologists continue to warn of several feet of snow remaining in the […]
It’s beginning to look a lot like… Thanksgiving? Winter weather has come early this year, and AccuWeather meteorologists say that a cross-country storm will deliver wet and wintry weather from California to Maine this week, disrupting travel for millions who plan on traveling on the days surrounding Thanksgiving. A storm dumping feet of snow in […]
Cars and trucks stuck in a deluge of snow in California. A historic ice storm in New England. A cluster of deadly tornadoes in the South. Snow during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. All were exacted by Mother Nature’s full force on or around Thanksgiving Day. As AccuWeather reports, through the years, we’ve tried to […]
Travel could prove challenging and the best seats for the New York Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade 2024 may be in your living room as storms threaten to bring chaos to much of the nation during the long holiday weekend. In the West, heavy rain and snow chances increase on Tuesday as “another atmospheric river event arrives” across […]
A “bomb cyclone” hit the Pacific Northwest this week, killing at least two and knocking out power to over a half a million people. Now, just ahead of the busy Thanksgiving travel season, the storm will continue its path across the U.S., set to wreak havoc across the nation as it makes its way east. […]
While the Northeastern states continue to deal with unseasonable prolonged drought conditions, a powerful “bomb cyclone” will combine with an atmospheric river to unleash over a month’s worth of rain, hurricane-force wind gusts and feet of mountain snow to parts of the Pacific Northwest and Northern California. A storm system off the Pacific Northwest was […]
New York City has struggled with fires in its parks and open spaces in 2024, a record-breaking dry year for the Big Apple, including more than 200 such blazes over a recent two week period. As USA Today reports, residents who fled more than 160 homes along the New York-New Jersey border over the weekend due to a […]
It’s a treat to see a supermoon. But that bright glowing “Beaver Moon” was pretty full when the Leonid meteor shower peaked last weekend, obscuring all but the brightest meteors in most locations. “Unfortunately this year, the viewing conditions will be affected” by a nearly full moon, said Shyam Balaji of King’s College London. “Watching […]
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is issuing advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone 19, monitoring the Caribbean Sea for it to develop into Tropical Storm – and possibly Hurricane – Sara in the coming days. The term Potential Tropical Cyclone refers to a system that isn’t yet organized enough to be considered a tropical depression or […]