The “summer of the supermoon” has come to an end. Every full moon throughout summer, which started on June 21 and concluded on Sept. 23, was a big and bright supermoon. However, the cosmos is about to perform an encore that will coincide with one of the most well-known full moons of the entire year. As AccuWeather reports, […]
Fall has only just begun, but it’s not too soon to look ahead to winter, especially since this one may look drastically different than recent years because of El Niño. As CNN reports, this winter will be the first in a few years to feel the effects of the phenomenon, which has a sizable impact on […]
The US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is planning to barge 36 million gallons of freshwater daily into the lower Mississippi River near New Orleans as saltwater intrusion from the Gulf of Mexico continues to threaten drinking water supply, officials said Friday. As CNN reports, the move comes as water levels are plummeting for the second consecutive […]
Ophelia tracked northward across eastern North Carolina into southeastern Virginia on Saturday. Although it lost wind intensity while moving over land and was classified as a tropical depression by Saturday evening, it continued to pack a punch across much of the East, unleashing drenching rain and threatening flooding from eastern North Carolina to southern New […]
As the calendar turns to September, the leaves on trees across the northern tier of the United States start to turn a tinge of yellow, orange and brown, a taste of what’s to come this fall in forests across the country. However, for stargazers September marks the return of longer nights with a slate of […]
September started with a typhoon that ripped through Hong Kong, uprooting trees and flooding the city. It was the first of a slew of extreme weather events that have hit ten countries and territories in just 12 days – the most catastrophic being the floods in Libya, which have killed more than 11,000 people according to the […]
Forecasters are warning a new tropical depression that formed Friday in the central Atlantic has the potential for explosive intensification that will make it a major hurricane this week, becoming the latest intense storm as New England and Novia Scotia are barely recovering from Lee’s impact over the weekend. As Forbes reports, the National Hurricane […]
The ferocity of Lee was unleashed on New England and the Canadian Maritimes over the weekend, ending the nearly two-week journey of the most powerful storm of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season. As AccuWeather reports, the monstrous storm cut power to more than 280,000 electric customers across Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick as it roared ashore on Saturday afternoon. […]
After a sizzling hot, record-breaking summer, some people may be ready for the arrival of cooler autumn air and the colorful displays that accompany the changing of the seasons. The weather throughout the entire year plays a significant role in how vibrant — or how dull — the fall foliage appears as autumn shifts into gear. […]
Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been oozing lava for more than three decades, but it seems to have been ramping up this year, erupting for the third time this year after nearly three months of quiet, with glowing lava flows bursting within one of its craters Sunday, according to the US Geological Survey. The eruption started […]