If seeing the aurora borealis (northern lights) is on your bucket list, turn your attention skyward: experts say 2024 will be a sensational year for spotting the elusive light show. As Lonely Planet reports, natural phenomenon is usually observable around the Arctic Circle – but this year, people across large swaths of the US and […]
Hurricane Milton set several meteorological records this week, and brought extreme rainfall, surge and wind gusts with it. Here’s a look at the numbers. As AccuWeather reports, Hurricane Milton made landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, at 8:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday. In his press briefing on Thursday morning, Governor Ron DeSantis said that the state had escaped the […]
Milton’s race from a Category 2 to a Category 5 hurricane in just a few hours has left people wondering if the powerhouse storm could, or should, possibly become a Category 6. As USA Today reports, hurricane grew very strong very fast Monday after forming in the Gulf of Mexico, exploding from a 60-mph tropical storm Sunday […]
The arrival of pumpkin spice lattes and cooler temperatures may mean fall is on its way, but nothing quite kicks off the season like when the leaves change into those vibrant hues of yellow, orange and red. The cascade of colors that erupts each September and October signal that change is on its way. So, what can […]
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season entered its fifth month Tuesday, and experts are again taking stock of a deadly and puzzling season. The year started with dire predictions of a hyperactive season, quickly followed by the explosive and record-breaking landfall of Beryl in early July. Then came an odd mismatch in Pacific and Atlantic activity a later mid-season lull. But […]
A solar eclipse event will create a “ring of fire” in the skies over parts of South America on Wednesday, according to NASA. As CNN Weather reports, annular solar eclipses occur when the moon passes between Earth and the sun as the moon is near to, or at the farthest point, in its orbit from Earth, […]
It sure doesn’t look like Autumn in the southwestern part of the U.S. As we enter the month of October, temperatures will soar to record-challenging levels from the inland deserts to the California coast during much of the week, AccuWeather meteorologists say. Along with surging temperatures will come a renewed wildfire risk. “A vast zone of high […]
Meteorologists warned that Hurricane Helene was going to be a historic, “once-in-a-lifetime” event. They were right. As AccuWeather reports, as the hurricane, now downgraded to a tropical storm, moves on and out of the Southeast, the stunning scope of widespread damage across Florida and Georgia becomes clear, and extreme rain from Helene continued to unleash […]
As Hurricane Helene gains strength and is expected to hit Florida’s panhandle as a Category 4, everyone is talking not so much about the wind speeds, but the “unsurvivable” storm surge that could devastate the area. What is storm surge? Put simply, storm surge is the level at which sea water rises above its normal […]
Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate and could be on an irreversible path to collapse, spelling catastrophe for global sea level rise. As CNN reports, since 2018, a team of scientists forming the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, has been studying Thwaites — often […]