A veteran meteorologist who helped lead Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts and oversaw the National Hurricane Center during an onslaught of record-breaking storm activity in 2020 will now take the helm of the National Weather Service, the agency announced Tuesday. Ken Graham, the four-year director of the National Hurricane Center, will begin his tenure as NWS […]
Tourists on Lake Powell captured astounding video of massive red rocks on the side of the reservoir toppling over into the water, generating a wave powerful enough to capsize a small watercraft. As reported by AccuWeather, Mila Carter and her husband Steve were out boating on Lake Powell — a human-made reservoir on the Colorado […]
Call it the bright side of the planet’s climate crisis. An extreme drought in Iraq helped a team of Kurdish and German archaeologists to uncover what is believed to be the ancient city of Zakhiku. Zakhiku had long been lost underneath the waters of the Mosul reservoir, according to a press release from the University […]
One of the primary factors driving an increase in tick-borne diseases is climate change. Warming temperatures create more hospitable conditions for ticks and their animal hosts, thus creating more opportunities for ticks to spread diseases. In fact, the EPA uses Lyme disease as an indicator of climate change, highlighting the interconnection of human activity, the […]
Unusual dryness has affected large portions of Europe so far this year, and a new report that analyzed the ongoing drought situation across the continent has revealed concerning signs in some of the region’s vital river basins as the summer months quickly approach. The report by the Global Drought Observatory (GDO) of the Copernicus Emergency Management […]
The recently-ranked largest fire in New Mexico history was found Friday to have been caused by a prescribed burn that had concluded in January before reigniting in April following at least three winter weather events. Forest Service investigators determined that the Calf Canyon Fire, which has charred over 312,000 acres in the Pecos/Las Vegas Ranger […]
AccuWeather meteorologists report that there is a chance for a new tropical storm south of Mexico to redevelop over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico during the opening days of the Atlantic hurricane season. Forecasters expect Tropical Storm Agatha, which formed in the East Pacific early Saturday morning, to move inland over Mexico with torrential rain […]
Summer is fast approaching and many people across Europe could be facing another summer that rivals the record-setting heat experienced in 2021, but the warm weather is only part of the story of the weather pattern across the continent in the coming months. AccuWeather’s team of long-range forecasters has been analyzing the weather patterns around […]
Accuweather recently shared video of a dust devil spinning up a neighborhood baseball field in Florence, Alabama. According to reports, it was a mostly sunny day in mid May, and a youth baseball league was outside practicing when a tornado-like whirlwind seemed to appear out of nowhere, sweeping across the infield as if it was […]
Better wind forecasting can save American consumers millions of dollars a year on their collective utility bills, according to a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Wind energy costs have already plummeted thanks to more efficient turbines, but there’s still a major hurdle to overcome when it comes to renewable energy: intermittency. Unlike coal and […]