Get ready for one of the most magical nights of the year! Tonight, the Super Harvest Moon – the first super moon of 2025 – will rise, appearing bigger, brighter, and closer than usual. This stunning full moon marks the closest full moon to the autumn equinox and has guided farmers for centuries as they […]
Hurricanes Humberto and Imelda swirling off the Southeast coast, bringing high winds and surf to the East Coast – as well as some homes disintegrating into the Atlantic Ocean – are a stark reminder that the government shutdown has happened during the middle of the Atlantic hurricane season. As CNN Weather reports, forecasters at the National […]
People in the southeastern United States have Hurricane Humberto and high pressure over the Northeast to thank for Imelda’s upcoming right turn to sea this week. However, the two hurricanes and the high will combine forces to bring long-lasting rough surf, dangerous rip currents and coastal flooding. As AccuWeather reports, Imelda strengthened to a hurricane on Tuesday […]
A new nationwide survey highlights America’s deepest weather fears, and the results show striking gaps between the threats people worry about and how prepared they actually feel to face them. As AccuWeather reports, the poll of 2,500 adults, conducted by Talker Research on behalf of Master Lock, found tornadoes ranked as the scariest natural disaster overall (46%), […]
Hurricane Humberto continues to churn in the western Atlantic as a major Category 4 storm, while Tropical Depression Nine has strengthened into Tropical Storm Imelda, threatening the Bahamas and potentially parts of the Southeastern U.S. As NBC News reports, the National Hurricane Center reported at 11 a.m. Sunday that Humberto was about 535 miles south of […]
A super typhoon has struck in East Asia, leaving a massive trail of destruction in its wake and resulting in at least 17 deaths. As PEOPLE reports, on Tuesday, Sept. 23, Super Typhoon Ragasa struck the Philippines and southern Taiwan, before hitting Hong Kong on Wednesday. The typhoon spanned 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of […]
NASA scientists are warning that the sun may be “waking up” from a brief period of relative inactivity, contradicting past assumptions about our home star. If true, this could mean that decades of potentially dangerous space weather are in store. As LiveScience reports, the sun follows a roughly 11-year cycle of solar activity that begins with […]
Hurricane Gabrielle has rapidly gained strength over the past 36 hours, becoming a Category 4 hurricane on Monday evening. The storm, which strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday afternoon, is expected to sustain its power overnight as it tracks eastward over the Atlantic Ocean. As Yahoo News reports, earlier forecasts had suggested that Gabrielle may […]
Wildfire smoke is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year, and according to scientists, will do more harm to U.S. residents by midcentury than any other threat driven by climate change, including extreme heat. The Growing Health Toll of Wildfire Smoke on Public Health in the U.S. As NBC News reports, that’s the […]
When is the first day of fall in 2025? As Space.com reports, a carefully worded answer would be that on Monday, Sept. 22, at 2:19 p.m. Eastern daylight time (11:19 a.m. PST), autumn begins astronomically in the Northern Hemisphere, and spring in the Southern. At that moment, the sun would be shining directly overhead as […]