It sure doesn’t look like Autumn in the southwestern part of the U.S. As we enter the month of October, temperatures will soar to record-challenging levels from the inland deserts to the California coast during much of the week, AccuWeather meteorologists say. Along with surging temperatures will come a renewed wildfire risk. “A vast zone of high […]
Meteorologists warned that Hurricane Helene was going to be a historic, “once-in-a-lifetime” event. They were right. As AccuWeather reports, as the hurricane, now downgraded to a tropical storm, moves on and out of the Southeast, the stunning scope of widespread damage across Florida and Georgia becomes clear, and extreme rain from Helene continued to unleash […]
A brewing storm in the Caribbean Sea is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico over the next few days and make landfall along the Gulf Coast as early as Thursday. As USA Today reports, by Monday evening, the National Hurricane Center predicted the storm – still officially a “potential cyclone” but […]
A storm currently spinning just off the Southeast coast is an example of what meteorologists call a “homegrown” storm. The storm had been thought to become Tropical Storm Helene, but never got organized enough to officially qualify as a named storm. Regardless, these tropical storms and hurricanes are the ones that can quickly form close […]
Typhoon Yagi, Asia’s most powerful storm this year, has left dozens dead since sweeping across southern China and Southeast Asia last week, leaving a trail of destruction with its intense rainfall and powerful winds. As AccuWeather reports, after hitting the Philippines, where it killed more than a dozen people, it churned westwards towards southern China and shortly […]
Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, new study has found. As AccuWeather reports, the space agency planned the DART, or Double Asteroid Redirection Test, mission to carry out a full-scale assessment of asteroid […]
Meteorological fall is underway, pumpkin spice flavors are being infused into food and drinks, and college football season has kicked off. However, there’s no better sign that autumn has arrived than a hillside of trees transformed into an ocean of yellow, orange and red As AccuWeather reports, due to recent and upcoming weather patterns across the […]
September marks the changing of the seasons and the arrival of cooler weather across the Northern Hemisphere, but the cosmos has two more easy-to-see astronomy events lined up before astronomical autumn officially arrives. From a “Super Harvest Moon eclipse” to the autumnal equinox, here are the top three astronomy events to mark on your calendar this month, […]
After the earliest start on record and a brutal first half of the 2024 Hurricane Season, the Atlantic is currently uncharacteristically quiet before the busiest part of the season is still to come. But while the Atlantic takes a breather, the Pacific Hurricane Season is taking center stage. As USA Today reports, after getting soaked […]
German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s surface — and centuries later, the pioneering drawings are helping scientists solve a solar mystery. Even though everything in the solar system revolves around the sun, scientists have yet to unlock many of the star’s secrets. However, as CNN […]