The death toll continues to rise in western New York, where Winter Storm Elliott dumped feet of snow on the area that left emergency services stalled and residents trapped in homes and cars. In Buffalo, winds gusted around 70 mph at the height of the storm and as much as 49 inches of snow fell. […]
Bitter cold has plunged much of the eastern two-thirds of the nation into a deep freeze and allowed for some eye-popping low temperatures across parts of the United States over Christmas week. Many cities even experienced the coldest Christmas in decades — and, in some cases, ever. Bottom line: It has been freezing around here. But AccuWeather meteorologists say […]
Extreme Air turbulence has been in the news lately. Last weekend, 36 passengers were injured, 11 seriously, when a Hawaiian Airlines flight encountered severe air turbulence. Then the very next day, five people had to be hospitalized when a United flight to Houston suddenly dropped 500 feet without warning. As we enter into an expected […]
Think a little cold air and snow might bolster your holiday spirits? Or perhaps you’re in the midst of that nasty Polar Vortex sweeping across the Northern U.S. this holiday week and you’re thinking, “it couldn’t get any colder.” Well, NASA says it knows where the coldest spot is on Earth for frosty Christmas and […]
The final meteor shower of 2022 will take place on the longest night of the year, an event that is often overlooked following the hyperactive Gemenids. The Ursid meteor shower is usually the least observed of the major annual showers. In the northern hemisphere December nights are cold and often cloudy. Another hindrance is the fact that […]
December has begun on a fairly mild note across a large part of the United States, but a bitter blast of cold air that will flow into North America from Siberia is forecast to plunge the eastern two-thirds of the U.S. into a deep freeze in the days leading up to Christmas. As AccuWeather reports, […]
December marks the first month of meteorological winter across the Northern Hemisphere, and people are busy gearing up for the holidays. Many people are focused on when snow will transform their yards into a winter wonderland, but this month can often bring violent severe weather. Although December is not the most prolific month in terms […]
December features the longest nights of the year, as well as the official change of season from Fall to Winter, and the final month of 2022 is packed with astronomical happenings. One of those highly anticipated by stargazers is the Geminid Meteor Shower. A myriad of shooting stars are set to streak through the sky […]
The National Weather Service (NWS) can send warnings for inclement and dangerous weather, such as flash floods, destructive severe thunderstorms, tornadoes and snow squalls, directly to your cell phone by using the Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) system, but new criteria from the NWS has changed how many snow squall alerts are being sent to people’s […]
When NASA’s Viking 1 lander made history as the first spacecraft to touch down on Mars on July 20, 1976, it sent back images of a landscape no one was expecting. Those first images taken from the ground there showed a surprisingly boulder-strewn surface in the red planet’s northern equatorial region, rather than the smooth […]