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 […]
AccuWeather meteorologists continue to warn about a surge of tropical activity and direct threats to the southeastern United States as the heart of the hurricane season looms, despite a long gap in tropical development over the Atlantic this summer. Atlantic tropical activity this year has been slower than in recent seasons and there has not been […]
As AccuWeather reports, heavy thunderstorms on Friday dumped nearly a year’s worth of rain over the Death Valley National Park in just three hours, resulting in flash flooding that damaged dozens of vehicles, closed roads throughout the park and trapped roughly 1,000 visitors and staff, officials said. “Rain this weekend was a historic event,” the […]
Not everyone is sweltering in the seemingly never ending summer heat. Some of the reptilian variety actually thrive in it. Rattlesnakes, specifically. Hayley Crowell, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan, and her team of researchers set out with the goal of finding out just what range of temps help snakes function at their […]
After potent thunderstorms rolled through Las Vegas on Thursday night, portions of the iconic Las Vegas Strip were left under water as floodwaters poured into area casinos. As AccuWeather reports, the sky opened up across the Las Vegas metro area, and heavy rainfall turned streets and sidewalks along the iconic Las Vegas Strip into raging […]
While many parts of the world are currently baking under scorching temperatures and suffering through extreme drought, others, like Pakistan, are getting record amounts of rainfall this season. Monsoon downpours deluged portions of Pakistan last weekend and Karachi, the country’s largest city, bore the brunt of the worst impacts as the floodwaters destroyed homes, inundated […]
AccuWeather reports that a new all-time record high was set in the United Kingdom Tuesday, and the brutally hot weather helped exacerbate a growing outbreak of house fires across London. The London Fire Brigade was forced to declare a major incident Tuesday in response to a huge surge of fires across the capital. The fire brigade […]
An unprecedented heat wave in France that has scorched the country, leading to raging wildfires, dragged on Monday with all-time high temperatures of nearly 108 degrees Fahrenheit recorded in some parts. As AccuWeather reports, Météo-France, the country’s national weather agency, reported over a dozen record-smashing highs Monday, including a reading of 107.6 F (42 degrees […]