Think a little cold air and snow might bolster your holiday spirits? Or perhaps you’re in the midst of that nasty Polar Vortex sweeping across the Northern U.S. this holiday week and you’re thinking, “it couldn’t get any colder.” Well, NASA says it knows where the coldest spot is on Earth for frosty Christmas and […]
The final meteor shower of 2022 will take place on the longest night of the year, an event that is often overlooked following the hyperactive Gemenids. The Ursid meteor shower is usually the least observed of the major annual showers. In the northern hemisphere December nights are cold and often cloudy. Another hindrance is the fact that […]
December has begun on a fairly mild note across a large part of the United States, but a bitter blast of cold air that will flow into North America from Siberia is forecast to plunge the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. into a deep freeze in the days leading up to Christmas. As AccuWeather reports, […]
December marks the first month of meteorological winter across the Northern Hemisphere, and people are busy gearing up for the holidays. Many people are focused on when snow will transform their yards into a winter wonderland, but this month can often bring violent severe weather. Although December is not the most prolific month in terms […]
December features the longest nights of the year, as well as the official change of season from Fall to Winter, and the final month of 2022 is packed with astronomical happenings. One of those highly anticipated by stargazers is the Geminid Meteor Shower. A myriad of shooting stars are set to streak through the sky […]
The National Weather Service (NWS) can send warnings for inclement and dangerous weather, such as flash floods, destructive severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and snow squalls, directly to your cell phone by using the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, but new criteria from the NWS has changed how many snow squall alerts are being sent to people’s […]
When NASA’s Viking 1 lander made history as the first spacecraft to touch down on Mars on July 20, 1976, it sent back images of a landscape no one was expecting. Those first images taken from the ground there showed a surprisingly boulder-strewn surface in the red planet’s northern equatorial region, rather than the smooth […]
The Atlantic hurricane season came to an official end on November 30, but less than a week later, AccuWeather meteorologists are suddenly monitoring the chances for an off-season storm to take shape. If the brewing system takes a name, it will be the first named storm to churn over the basin in December in 15 years. “An […]
December features the longest nights of the year, and the final month of 2022 will be packed with astronomical happenings ranging from the most active annual meteor shower to the best views of Mars since 2020. The final full moon of the year will rise after sunset on Wednesday, December 7, and it will not […]
Nearly 20% of California’s urban water agencies reported they could see significant water shortages in the coming months as the state braces for a potential fourth consecutive year of drought. After surveying urban water agencies representing roughly 90% of the state’s population, the California Department of Water Resources early this week released its first “Annual Water Supply […]