Hurricane Humberto continues to churn in the western Atlantic as a major Category 4 storm, while Tropical Depression Nine has strengthened into Tropical Storm Imelda, threatening the Bahamas and potentially parts of the Southeastern U.S. As NBC News reports, the National Hurricane Center reported at 11 a.m. Sunday that Humberto was about 535 miles south of […]
A super typhoon has struck in East Asia, leaving a massive trail of destruction in its wake and resulting in at least 17 deaths. As PEOPLE reports, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, Super Typhoon Ragasa struck the Philippines and southern Taiwan, before hitting Hong Kong on Wednesday. The typhoon spanned 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of […]
NASA scientists are warning that the sun may be “waking up” from a brief period of relative inactivity, contradicting past assumptions about our home star. If true, this could mean that decades of potentially dangerous space weather are in store. As LiveScience reports, the sun follows a roughly 11-year cycle of solar activity that begins with […]
Wildfire smoke is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year, and according to scientists, will do more harm to U.S. residents by midcentury than any other threat driven by climate change, including extreme heat. The Growing Health Toll of Wildfire Smoke on Public Health in the U.S. As NBC News reports, that’s the […]
Hurricane Gabrielle has rapidly gained strength over the past 36 hours, becoming a Category 4 hurricane on Monday evening. The storm, which strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday afternoon, is expected to sustain its power overnight as it tracks eastward over the Atlantic Ocean. As Yahoo News reports, earlier forecasts had suggested that Gabrielle may […]
When is the first day of fall in 2025? As Space.com reports, a carefully worded answer would be that on Monday, Sept. 22, at 2:19 p.m. Eastern daylight time (11:19 a.m. PST), autumn begins astronomically in the Northern Hemisphere, and spring in the Southern. At that moment, the sun would be shining directly overhead as […]
NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has issued a “La Niña Watch.” But what does that mean for weather where you are? As AccuWeather reports, a La Niña pattern develops when sea surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean remain cooler than average for an extended time. Its influence on the weather in the United States is strongest in […]
A swarm of tornadoes tore across parts of central North Dakota and South Dakota Sunday afternoon, leaving some damage as flooding rainfall swamped Bismarck during a bizarre September limited outbreak of severe weather in the Northern Plains. More tornadoes touched down in North Dakota on Sunday than the state had seen in any September over […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has launched five small, uncrewed research vessels off the U.S. Virgin Islands to better understand how hurricanes develop and behave. “The deployment is the latest effort by NOAA to advance data collection to improve hurricane research and forecasting, ” NOAA said in a statement last week. As AccuWeather reports, the […]
Very warm waters, steering currents and other factors point to the Gulf as the main area of concern for tropical development over the next couple of weeks, AccuWeather meteorologists say. Other systems may form farther east over the Atlantic basin, but Gulf development would allow the least time for U.S. coastal preparations. “The western Caribbean […]