May is the start of Tornado Season, and boy, has it ever. Severe weather that led to torrential rainfall in Texas also spun up a tornado early Saturday morning, killing one person, according to officials. As AccuWeather reports, the deadly tornado touched down in Laguna Heights, on the eastern coastline of Texas, around 4 a.m. […]
Smoke from Australia’s worst wildfires in decades may have contributed to the rare triple La Niña weather event that impacted continents thousands of miles away, according to new research. As CNN reports, those flames burned through 46 million acres from June 2019 to January 2020 — during Australia’s summer months — thrusting emissions into the Earth’s […]
In a surprising move, music icons Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have announced the name of their newborn son, sending shockwaves through the industry. The power couple, known for their boundary-pushing music, have chosen a name that pays tribute to hip-hop legends Wu-Tang Clan. Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, known for their creativity, selected Wu Daniel Fenty-Mayweather […]
A marine heat wave is unfolding on a global scale that is setting records that have stood for decades, and forecasters say it could get worse in the coming months as El Niño takes hold in the Pacific Ocean. As AccuWeather reports, underwater heat waves occur when water temperatures in parts of the ocean are […]
Five years ago, Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano erupted and spewed lava into a neighborhood and that “changed the island of Hawaii forever,” according to the National Park Service. Scientists have been searching for the trigger of the “most extraordinary sequences in at least 200 years,” writes authors of a new study who feel they finally found the culprit, and […]
It’s been a challenging season for residents who live along the upper Mississippi River. Snowmelt from a record-setting winter snowfall in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan sent a deluge of water into the Mississippi River this spring, flooding several cities and towns. AccuWeather experts warn it will take some time for the water levels to recede […]
It’s an event 37 Years in the making – Halley’s Comet is starting its journey Back to Earth in 2023. This week sees the peak of the Eta-Aqaurids meteor shower, an annual meteor shower caused by the world’s most famous comet—1P Halley. Just to be clear, Halley’s comet—named after the English astronomer who plotted its orbit […]
April was an exciting month for stargazers and space enthusiasts thanks to an outburst of northern lights, the first meteor shower since early in the winter and an explosive inaugural launch of SpaceX’s newest rocket. But there are more must-see celestial events are lined up in the first week of May, including another meteor shower, the […]
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, which hold almost all of the world’s freshwater ice, are shrinking at a frighteningly rapid pace, losing enough ice over the last 30 years to create an ice cube 12 miles high, according to new research from a team of international scientists, published in Earth System Science Data (ESSD). […]
On average, 1,200 tornadoes hit the United States each year, according to the Storm Prediction Center (SPC), and while twisters can happen at any time and in any state, the prevailing wisdom has held that most of the large twisters occur in Tornado Alley, an expansive area within the central U.S. designated by meteorologists in […]