Winter is coming − but how cold is it going to be? Federal forecasters from NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center gave us their answer October 16 in their annual winter outlook. As USA Today reports, according to the forecast, a warmer-than-average winter is most likely across the southern tier of the nation, as well as in California and along […]
The warm waters of the Caribbean Sea have been mostly untouched this hurricane season, making the region prime for tropical development. Now, as AccuWeather reports, the conditions in the Caribbean are displaying the conditions that look favorable for tropical development mid week, like lower wind shear, or disruptive winds higher up in the atmosphere. For over […]
Shooting stars are now zipping through the night sky in the Orionid meteor shower, one of the most reliable meteor showers of the year, but this year it’s joined by two recently discovered comets, Lemmon and SWAN, to make it quite a spectacular show for star gazers. As The Times reports, the peak of the […]
The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to a landmark report produced by 160 scientists across the world. As AccuWeather reports, humans are burning fossil fuels and ratcheting up temperatures, which is […]
The forecast for the powerful and deadly storm that battered small communities in western Alaska over the weekend was reportedly made worse by a lack of weather data triggered by the DOGE budget cuts from earlier this year. There is a gaping hole in weather balloon coverage in western Alaska — a critical shortage bedeviling US […]
With over a month left in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific tropical season, AccuWeather meteorologists warn that more named storms could be brewing. As AccuWeather reports, while a tropical wind and rainstorm pounds mid-Atlantic and New England beaches with coastal flooding, beach erosion and gusty winds, another tropical storm spun up in the Atlantic Ocean. “At 5 […]
A powerful coastal storm, dubbed a “nor’easter,” tracked up the East Coast over the weekend and into the start of the new week, bringing pounding surf, heavy rain and gusty winds that flooded streets, eroded beaches and snarled travel from the Carolinas to New England. The storm’s strongest impacts were felt along the shoreline, where […]
High winds and years of drought didn’t help, but the cause of the deadly fire that ravaged the Pacific Palisades community, causing the deaths of 12 people and millions of dollars in damage wasn’t an accident, and it wasn’t a result of neglect or dereliction of duty by Los Angeles county or the state of […]
October is finally here, and with it comes more fall foliage reaching its peak throughout the U.S. As USA Today reports, each year, as trees begin to store a chemical called chlorophyll, their leaves lose their green coloring, leaving yellow, orange, red, brown, and sometimes purple tints instead. The changing of the leaves draws nature enthusiasts, often […]
The leaves may be turning and the temperature may be falling in parts of the U.S., but the tropics are far from done for the season. AccuWeather hurricane experts are warning that a tropical storm may soon form in the Atlantic, while a hurricane will be on the prowl close to Mexico this week. These tropical threats […]