The weather pattern in the Southeast will be influenced by several factors this autumn, including the unusually warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and a significant climate pattern unfolding thousands of miles away. For the third year in a row, La Niña will be one of the dominant factors in the global weather pattern. […]
September has arrived, marking the return of pumpkin spice lattes, football season and cooler weather, but AccuWeather long-range forecasters say that it may take some time for the latter to come to fruition across the United States. Meteorological autumn officially kicked off on Thursday, September 1, and will continue through Wednesday, November 30. AccuWeather meteorologists […]
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 […]
One day after becoming a tropical storm, the first in the basin since Colin in early July, Danielle strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane over the North Atlantic Ocean on Friday morning. As AccuWeather reports, the hurricane wasn’t a threat to land as it was located 885 miles west of the Azores, an island chain […]
The Atlantic Ocean has been void of tropical systems since early July, and the basin is on the verge of historic inactivity for the month of August. But AccuWeather meteorologists say that the tropics may soon come alive as they are tracking a few different areas for potential tropical development by early September. At least two out […]
In just a little over a month, five areas across the United States have all experienced what should have been very unlikely — if not impossible — one in 1,000-year flooding events. As AccuWeather reports, most recent historic flooding event occurred in Dallas on Monday, August 22, where 8 to 16 inches of rain fell […]
NASA has released a haunting audio clip of sound waves rippling out of a supermassive black hole, located 250 million light-years away. As Science Alert reports, the black hole is at the center of the Perseus cluster of galaxies, and the acoustic waves coming from it have been transposed up 57 and 58 octaves so they’re […]
Europe is experiencing its worst drought in at least 500 years. Landscapes across Europe and beyond are being altered as forest fires, melting glaciers and other disasters threaten to wipe out entire regions. But as these terrains change, new discoveries are surfacing. Lately, droughts have been drying up river beds across the globe, exposing never seen archaeological treasures. Here are some of […]
Some weather terms are just… weird and wacky. No ifs ands or buts about it. Here’s one from the weather nerd archives that may leave you scratching your head: Frog Strangler. The term “Frog Strangler” dates back to 1870, according to a post on StackExchange. Almost all the variants of the colloquialism, which begin with […]
Much of America has been dealing with drought this summer. According to government data, for the week ending August 9, 43 states were under at least moderate drought conditions, accounting for half the landmass of the lower 48 states. The Southwest has been hit the worst, from Texas (which had its hottest July on record), west to California, and as […]