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A massive heat dome will continue to build over the western United States this week before expanding toward the north-central region this weekend. As the heat dome ages and shifts, the door will open for thunderstorms to erupt over the deserts and Great Basin–bringing drought relief for some and problems for others. New season high...
As storms temporarily take a break in the Northeast, thunderstorms will hammer parts of the Plains, Midwest and Southeast with locally torrential rain and damaging wind gusts. More storms to rumble, drench parts of East A batch of rain and locally severe storms will persist across parts of the Southeast through Wednesday. Most of the...
Metallic spheres that mysteriously washed onto an Australian beach over the weekend have now been identified as pieces of a rocket that fell back to Earth. The objects were found on Forrest Beach in North Queensland, and determined to be “pressure vessels from a space launch vehicle,” the Australian Space Agency said in a Facebook post. The metal spheres...
It's Saharan dust season in the Atlantic, the time of year when massive clouds of dust from Africa's Sahara Desert are carried westward by winds, sometimes traveling thousands of miles to the United States. Where is the dust now? Unhealthy air quality was observed across much of the Caribbean Tuesday morning, where dust concentrations were...
Rumors of a tornado in Alaska swirled on social media on July 4, fueled by an impressive video showing a large funnel extending down across the hilly landscape. But looks can be deceiving. The funnel cloud was likely generated by winds in the Susitna Valley about 100 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska. However, it never...
The sizzling, stormy start to July will continue into another week as the risk of severe thunderstorms and flash flooding shifts across the central and eastern part of the nation, according to AccuWeather meteorologists. Since the beginning of the month, there have been over 2,000 reports of severe weather stretching from the Plains to the...
A hiker fell about 500 feet to his death while trying to take a photo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 28, according to reports. Caio Rocha Aguiar Arrabal, 44, was hiking the Pedra do Macaco trail in Maricá, located in the metropolitan region of the state, on Sunday morning when he fell off a cliff, Brazilian news outlet G1 reported. According to reports, Arrabal was training with a team that leads visitors on local...
As summer heats up, so too does the water across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, a key ingredient for tropical storms during hurricane season. However, more than warm water is needed to spin up a storm, including one of the biggest players in global weather patterns. Atlantic basin: Warm water isn’t the whole story The...
A rapidly growing wildfire burning in southern Colorado has destroyed homes, forced widespread evacuations in neighboring counties as firefighters brace for continued dangerous fire weather. The Aspen Acres Fire, burning in Custer and Pueblo counties, was estimated at more than 93,600 acres with 15% containment as of Tuesday morning, according to the incident management team....
After devastating the Northern Mariana Island of Rota and causing damage in Guam Sunday into Monday, Super Typhoon Bavi is setting its sights on Taiwan. AccuWeather meteorologists say Typhoon Bavi is the equivalent of a Category 4 hurricane (130 mph or 209 km/h) on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale over the open Philippine Sea as...
