June 2024 was hotter than any June previously on record, leaving people exposed to life-threatening temperatures and more extreme weather, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said Monday. As AccuWeather reports, Copernicus researchers found that temperatures worldwide each month for the past 12 months were 1.5 degrees Celsius greater than the average before the pre-industrial age. […]
A slight respite from hot, dry weather Monday slowed the hunger for acreage among Oregon’s eight major wildfires, but an ominous forecast loomed as the state welcomed outside help. As NBC News reports, Oregon’s largest blaze, the Cow Valley Fire along the state’s desolate eastern flank, stood at 132,528 acres Monday, with 5% containment reported […]
The latest made-ya-look image from the James Webb Space Telescope has arrived, and it looks like … a penguin. A giant penguin in space. As AccuWeather reports, on Friday NASA officials marked two full years of scientific results from the telescope with the release of the image, which actually shows a pair of intertwined galaxies, […]
The heat wave that has set temperature records across the Western United States and left dozens of people dead continues to scorch tens of millions of Americans. And as Yahoo reports, forecasters say most of the country won’t be seeing relief anytime soon. According to the National Weather Service (NWS), dangerous and record-breaking heat will continue for […]
As much of the U.S. copes with blistering heat, air conditioners have been humming, aiding comfort as well as survival. But what’s the best temperature setting during a heat wave? And what can you do to help keep your living space cool during the summer heat? As Yahoo Life reports, the U.S. Department of Energy recommends setting the temperature to […]
The sweltering heat wave gripping parts of the U.S. has shattered heat records and sparked an air quality health advisory, and it is now suspected of having contributed to at least seven deaths. As NBC News reports, more than 130 million people across the West, the East Coast, southeast Texas and South Florida were under heat alerts […]
When NASA scientists recently tracked the orbits of two space rocks as they made close approaches of Earth, they discovered a surprise: One of the asteroids has a little moon. As CNN Weather reports, astronomers regularly track the trajectories of asteroids to ensure that none of them are on a potential collision course with our planet. […]
California’s Death Valley could reach a scorching 130 degrees this week and come close to breaking its blistering world record as parts of the West, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic are under an extreme heat wave expected to intensify this weekend. The temperature at Death Valley National Park, which stretches between eastern California and Nevada, will reach […]
Well over a week after forming over the Atlantic, Beryl was lining up for a third landfall early in the new week, this time in the U.S., as the storm barreled toward Texas on Sunday, states AccuWeather meteorologists. Expected to strengthen back into a hurricane before moving inland, strong winds, flooding and tornadoes are among the hazards […]
Earliest Category 5 in the Atlantic. Earliest Category 4. Strongest June hurricane. Easternmost June hurricane. First system to undergo rapid intensification in the Atlantic in June. All fresh rewrites of a hurricane record book began in 1851. As The Miami Herald Reports, as only the second named hurricane of 2024, Beryl’s scary statistics are an […]