The heat wave that gripped the Northeast and Midwest in late-June 2025 smashed records not just for a particular calendar day, but also anytime in June. In a few locations, it even tied or set new all-time records. As The Weather Channel reports, hundreds of record highs were broken from the Plains to the East […]
Antarctica was once believed to host little biodiversity beyond coastal areas and a few hardy microbes, but a team of scientists has made a shocking discovery beneath a slowly retreating glacier in Antarctica: a bustling network of microbial life. As The Cool Down (TCD) reports, a team of researchers aboard Germany’s Polarstern research vessel traveled to the Larsemann Hills on […]
Hurricane Erick formed June 18 in the eastern Pacific Ocean, already becoming the fifth named storm of the eastern Pacific season to date. In a reverse of the usual hurricane season norms, this unusually high level of activity in the eastern Pacific contrasts sharply with the rather tepid start to hurricane season in the Atlantic. As USA Today […]
A major heat wave has built and taken center stage in the weather late last week and into this next week. AccuWeather meteorologists advised that groups of severe thunderstorms would erupt on the edge of the “heat dome” of hot air. The storms will take on a “ring of fire” effect, erupting first over parts of the […]
The eastern Pacific continues its tropical tear with the fifth tropical storm of the season already in the books and the second hurricane on the way. AccuWeather meteorologists believe Tropical Storm Erick will rapidly strengthen over the next couple of days. It will quickly reach hurricane intensity and become the strongest tropical cyclone in the Northern […]
Alaska just issued its first-ever heat advisory for Sunday, June 15. Temperatures in central Alaska were expected to reach 86 degrees Fahrenheit (that’s 30 Celsius) through the weekend and into the week of June 16. As CNET reports, it’s not as if Alaska never gets hot in the summer. However, as Jason Laney, a warning […]
In three separate incidents this year – two in June alone – rare deep-sea oarfish, nicknamed “doomsday fish,” have washed up on beaches in Tamil Nadu, India, Tasmania, and Mexico, stirring ancient legends and online speculation. As AccuWeather reports, some cultures believe oarfish are harbingers of natural disasters. The monstrous, snake-like appearance of these huge, […]
June’s full moon will rise soon but not by much. This year’s Strawberry Moon is set to be one of the lowest full moons since 2006, according to EarthSky. A “lunar standstill” is affecting how the moon appears. That can also make it look more red or pink this year because of factors like the Saharan dust in the air […]
The sunniest time of the year is here. Solar Summer – one of the lesser-known versions of the season – has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. As AccuWeather reports, there are many ways to quantify the season. Memorial Day weekend signals the start of summer for beachgoers and vacationers across the United States. Weather forecasters […]
Tracking seaweed might sound like a boring job, but the scientists at the University of South Florida Optical Oceanography Lab take it very seriously. As AccuWeather reports, at the end of May, they sounded the alarm: Sargassum seaweed is forming earlier and in more abundance than ever this season in the Atlantic — worse than the […]