February’s widely promoted post-sunset “planet parade” or “planetary parade” reaches its most accessible this weekend. Viewing the Planetary Parade According to NASA, “Saturn, Venus, Mercury, and Jupiter will line up in the southwestern sky. With a telescope or binoculars, you can see Uranus and Neptune in the procession, too!” The space agency circles Feb. 28, 2026, […]
On February 20, an ice jam break on the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania triggered a flash flood warning in multiple counties. As temperatures rose out of the winter lows, ice on French Creek in Crawford County and Oil Creek in Venango County caused raised water levels and ice jams, prompting a warning to local residents […]
February is here and with it comes cold weather and the beginning of a new severe weather and apparently, early tornado season. The evening of 19 February featured a rare-for-the-midwest winter tornado outbreak. Tornadoes were reported in several locations in southern Illinois and Indiana, accompanied by numerous reports of hail and damaging winds. Much of […]
Crews have now recovered the bodies of all nine backcountry skiers who were killed in an avalanche in Northern California over President’s Day weekend. As NPR reports, it marks an end to what authorities on Saturday described as an agonizing five-day search and recovery operation complicated by intense winter storms northwest of Lake Tahoe. “While we wish […]
Spring 2026 is a season divided, with large areas of the country expected to have an early arrival of springlike weather, while millions face an extension of winter through the first day of the new season. Although Spring officially begins at 10:46 a.m. EDT on Friday, March 20, AccuWeather’s long-range forecasters report that some areas […]
Late winter storms rolled over the western region Monday night into Tuesday, with widespread rounds of mountain snow in California continuing to dump through Thursday night, causing additional highway and pass closures. As AccuWeather reports, yet more storms are expected to roll in from the Pacific, focusing their energy on the mountains of Northern California […]
The first annular solar eclipse is here. As Space.com reports, an annular solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly in front of the sun’s disk during the new moon phase while at a distant point from Earth in its elliptical orbit. Around this time, the lunar disk appears slightly smaller than the sun in Earth’s […]
Florida isn’t just dry right now — it’s almost wall-to-wall drought. As AccuWeather reports, the only pocket of the state not currently in drought is a small coastal strip between Melbourne and Daytona Beach. But even there, conditions have been abnormally dry. “Nearly 99% of the state is under drought conditions,” says AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson about […]
Yosemite National Park’s viral “Firefall” is due to return any day now, and the question heading into mid- to late February is the same as always: Will Horsetail Fall be flowing, and will the sky be clear enough at sunset for the famous glow to show up? As AccuWeather reports, peak dates for the natural […]
The second month of the year is the snowiest for many regions of the United States, and for other areas, the peak in snowfall occurs even later toward the springtime. As AccuWeather reports, Climatologist Brian Brettschneider compiled snowfall data from around the United States and Canada, creating a map to show which month is the […]