A rare tornado struck Scotts Valley, just south of the Bay Area, overturning cars, damaging trees and knocking out power with an estimated peak winds of 90 mph. As AccuWeather reports, San Francisco city and county received the first warning Saturday since the inception of reliable weather records in 1950, Nicole Sarment, a weather service […]
A storm will rapidly strengthen as it moves northward from the United States to Canada. The budding bomb cyclone will unleash “a firehose of moisture” – torrential rain and powerful winds from the Appalachians to the Atlantic coast – that can snarl travel, trigger flooding and cause power outages at midweek. According to AccuWeather meteorologists, […]
As Michigan was whipped with winter weather and lake-effect snows last week, Paw Paw residents Janice and Eric Pantelleria went outside to find some unusual lawn ornaments: dozens upon dozens of nicely rolled-up snow doughnuts or cylinders across their large lawn. As USA Today reports, these snowy rollers are a somewhat unusual weather phenomenon, said Megan […]
If you watched the Buffalo Bills defeat the San Francisco 49er’s on Sunday night football, you noticed the blizzard-like conditions on the field. Across the Great Lakes and interior Northeast, the first significant lake-effect snow event were underway over the weekend, and AccuWeather meteorologists continue to warn of several feet of snow remaining in the […]
It’s beginning to look a lot like… Thanksgiving? Winter weather has come early this year, and AccuWeather meteorologists say that a cross-country storm will deliver wet and wintry weather from California to Maine this week, disrupting travel for millions who plan on traveling on the days surrounding Thanksgiving. A storm dumping feet of snow in […]
Cars and trucks stuck in a deluge of snow in California. A historic ice storm in New England. A cluster of deadly tornadoes in the South. Snow during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. All were exacted by Mother Nature’s full force on or around Thanksgiving Day. As AccuWeather reports, through the years, we’ve tried to […]
AccuWeather meteorologists report that the Western Pacific Ocean is experiencing a surge in tropical activity this week, with four storms stretching from Vietnam to the Mariana Islands. After two typhoons hit the Philippines Thursday and Monday, two additional typhoons are poised to potentially impact the area late this week and early next week. The previous […]
Even though the storm that Rafael threatened has dissipated and passed, the never-ending 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season isn’t quite over yet. As AccuWeather meteorologists report, a feature near the Bahamas that has been watched since last week is out of time due to an approaching front and a surge in wind shear, but the main […]
An official announcement that La Niña has formed could come as soon as mid-November, when federal forecasters give their monthly update on the climate pattern. As USA Today reports, Current mild weather notwithstanding, winter is still coming – and a looming La Niña in the Pacific Ocean could impact the forecast for winter in 2024-25. An official announcement […]
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) is monitoring an area of low pressure over the Caribbean which it said is likely to develop into a tropical depression. If this turns into a tropical storm, it could be the next named storm in the basin, and would be called Rafael. As Newsweek reports, there is an 80 […]