An astronomical double-header is slated for one of the first nights of spring, including a precursor to April’s highly-anticipated total solar eclipse. From views of Mercury to a Worm Moon, here are AccuWeather’s top astronomy events to mark on your calendar in March. March 10: Spring Forward Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 10, […]
In the wake of a biblical blizzard that unloaded nearly 100 inches of snow on California last week, AccuWeather meteorologists are confident in stating that California will be free of widespread drought through at least 2025. “The combination of the abundance of rain and snow from the winter of 2022-2023, the state of the reservoirs, […]
Firefighters in Texas are still battling the largest wildfire in recorded state history, but they were hopeful on Monday that with cooler weather and less wind forecast for this week that they’d get an important break. As the New York Times reports, the blaze, known as the Smokehouse Creek fire, has already scorched more than […]
A tornado touched down in Kings County on Saturday afternoon — the second tornado in two days to hit Central California. The tornado touched down in the south end of Corcoran around 4:37 p.m., said meteorologist Carlos Molina with the National Weather Service’s Hanford office. The tornado moved eastward and than dissipated by the time […]
The sun has unleashed its most powerful solar flare for around seven years. Last week, in less than 24 hours, the sun fired off three X-class solar flares, the highest magnitude on the scale used to measure the intensity of flares. The third was the strongest of the bunch and was “the most powerful flare […]
Hurricane season is months away, but the waters where hurricanes roam haven’t received the memo. As CNN Weather reports, ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic are historically warm for this early in the year, raising the risk of a hyperactive storm season that could also be supercharged by a budding La Niña. “This season should […]
Meteorologist Craig “Ceecee” Croskery has spent the last two years identifying, verifying and logging buildings that he described as “almost impossible” for the average citizen to easily find, despite the fact that they are meant to be places of refuge in life-threatening severe weather events. As AccuWeather reports, mere seconds can mean the difference between […]
The potential for a multiple-day severe weather outbreak, including tornadoes, continues to build from portions of the Great Plains to large parts of the Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee valleys spanning Tuesday and Wednesday this week, AccuWeather meteorologists warn. The severe weather risk may even reach part of the Eastern Seaboard on Thursday. The storms will likely erupt […]
The current El Niño is now one of the strongest on record, new data shows, catapulting it into rare “super El Niño” territory, but forecasters believe that La Niña is likely to develop in the coming months. As CNN Weather reports, one of the main ways scientists determine whether El Niño is present, and a […]
Last week, a team of researchers completed a scientific undertaking to assess the damage from last year’s record-high marine temperatures on restored coral reefs in the Florida Keys. The “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Mission: Iconic Reefs” program released the findings Thursday, which focused on 64 locations at five reef sites: Carysfort Reef, Horseshoe Reef, Sombrero Reef, […]