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 […]
Hot enough for you? Unusual summer temps have been hanging on across much of the U.S., forecasters said, and no real cold is in sight in the forecast until at least mid-November. As USA Today reports, according to the National Weather Service, “a quiet and relatively uneventful fall weather pattern will be in place across the […]
Another storm threat could be brewing in the Caribbean when this historically brutal Atlantic Basin hurricane season rolls into its final month later this week, forecasters say. As USA Today reports, the season that brought massive damage − some estimates put damages from Helene and Milton at almost $100 billion − could face a new tropical threat […]
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 […]