A NASA spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the Sun. As BBC News reports, scientists received a signal from the Parker Solar Probe just before midnight EST on Thursday (05:00 GMT on Friday) after it had been out of communication for several days during its burning-hot fly-by. NASA said the probe was “safe” […]
President-elect Donald Trump wants to do away with daylight saving time (DST), a move that some experts say could improve health and wellness. Trump announced the goal in a post on his Truth Social last Friday. “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, […]
Maybe it doesn’t exactly feel like it where you are this holiday season, but according to experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), La Niña is still going to make herself known in 2025. As The Weather Channel reports, cooler-than-average water temperatures in the equatorial Pacific Ocean are still expected to reach the […]
The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year with the longest night of the year. The December solstice also marks the official start of astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere, taking place this year on Saturday, Dec. 21, at 4:20 a.m. EST. This is different than meteorological winter, which starts on Dec. 1. But as […]
Wishes for a white Christmas are growing as the holiday inches closer. Recent cold blasts in the eastern half of the United States have many hoping the pattern will be favorable for a blanket of snow on Christmas morning, but that may not be the case for much of the Lower 48. So what is […]
A rare tornado struck Scotts Valley, just south of the Bay Area, overturning cars, damaging trees and knocking out power with an estimated peak winds of 90 mph. As AccuWeather reports, San Francisco city and county received the first warning Saturday since the inception of reliable weather records in 1950, Nicole Sarment, a weather service […]
A storm will rapidly strengthen as it moves northward from the United States to Canada. The budding bomb cyclone will unleash “a firehose of moisture” – torrential rain and powerful winds from the Appalachians to the Atlantic coast – that can snarl travel, trigger flooding and cause power outages at midweek. According to AccuWeather meteorologists, […]
As Michigan was whipped with winter weather and lake-effect snows last week, Paw Paw residents Janice and Eric Pantelleria went outside to find some unusual lawn ornaments: dozens upon dozens of nicely rolled-up snow doughnuts or cylinders across their large lawn. As USA Today reports, these snowy rollers are a somewhat unusual weather phenomenon, said Megan […]
You’ve probably seen the weather forecasts and talks of snow squalls throughout the Midwest and Northeast this week. But what exactly is a snow squall? What makes them so dangerous? And most importantly, how can you stay safe if you get caught in one? The Weather Channel can explain it all for you. What is […]
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 […]