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 […]
As AccuWeather reports, a spate of shark sightings off the coast of New England that started in May, including one so dramatic that video caught onlookers screaming, kicked off an earlier season than expected. July is typically when the large predators arrive along the shoreline. And right on cue, as the height of the season […]
The term “tropical wave” is one that comes up time and time again during the Atlantic and Pacific hurricane seasons. As AccuWeather reports, tropical waves happen most often over the ocean, but the term “wave” is atmospheric in nature and does not refer to undulations occurring in the ocean water. According to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist […]
Hot and humid summer days are often followed by warm nights, comfortable weather conditions for stargazers hoping to set up a telescope, watch the International Space Station fly overhead or just sit back and gaze at the stars. This year is no exception with July offering a slate of astronomical sights for young stargazers, those […]
Water levels at Lake Mead dropped to historic lows this week with persistent drought exacerbated by climate change and increased water demands driving the reservoir closer to becoming a “dead pool.” The nation’s largest reservoir on Thursday measured at 1,043.8 feet, its lowest level since the lake was filled in the 1930s. The minimum elevation to […]