AccuWeather Daily

Rounds of severe thunderstorms hammered the I-95 corridor Thursday, bringing damaging winds, torrential rain and intense lightning to major metro areas including Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and New York City. More than 600,000 customers lost power across the region at the height of the outages. That number was down to around 300,000 by Friday morning, according to PowerOutage.US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A push of much cooler air will arrive in the West and will set off some high-elevation snow to go along with spotty thunderstorms and gusty winds that can raise the wildfire threat level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tropical Storm Erick formed as anticipated and is likely to rapidly strengthen as feared prior to approaching the southwestern coast of Mexico prior to the end of this week with the effects of a major hurricane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At least 6 people were killed by flooding in West Virginia over the weekend, and the forecast is for more rain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Moisture will not be in short supply for the next week or so in the Northeast and Midwest, as evidenced by high humidity levels and frequent showers and thunderstorms, AccuWeather meteorologists say. But around the official start of the summer season, building heat in the West is forecast to fight its way to the East. In addition, the heat wave in the central United States will occur around the time of the year when the sun is highest in the sky and can make for sweltering to dangerous conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's a wildfire burning out of control in Oregon, close to the border with Washington and it has forced the closure of several major roads and hundreds of evacuations. Firefighting crews are having a tough time keeping up with it with gusty winds in the area threatening to continue its rapid spread.  Over 3800 acres have burned in the Rowena Fire since it started on Wednesday afternoon in Wasco County.. It's 5% contained as of early Saturday morning. Plus, thunderstorms could interrupt some outdoor Father's Day plans this weekend, but not everyone will need to have a raincoat or umbrella at the ready before heading to the golf course or the ballpark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The eastern Pacific may soon have its forth tropical storm of the 2025 hurricane season. Meanwhile, the Atlantic is still in a holding pattern. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An AMOC collapse would usher in global weather and climate shifts — including plunging temperatures in Europe, which relies on the current system for its mild weather. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A meteorological principle related to the Earth's rotation dictates that tropical storms cannot cross the equator, but a couple have come close. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While Saharan dust and wind shear suppress tropical development in the Atlantic, the eastern Pacific has come alive, one of two active tropical cyclones becoming a hurricane. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

More smoke and dust are ahead for the northern, eastern and southern states into mid-June, as AccuWeather meteorologists continue to track Canadian wildfires and dust sweeping in from Africa. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As a major tornado approached Lubbock, Texas, meteorologists and storm chasers were amazed by what they saw on a radar screen. Also, twice a year, areas in the tropics experience an eerie phenomenon that makes photographs look unnatural, but a few clouds at the wrong time can spoil the unique solar event. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Severe weather may show no mercy for parts of the central United States with a daily risk in some locations. Storms will also reach into parts of the East as well. AccuWeather meteorologists are tracking tropical downpours in the Carolinas and an area of stormy weather that can develop in the western Caribbean before mid-June. At least one will directly affect the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oarfish sightings in India and Australia have reignited fascination with the deep-sea creatures long linked to natural disaster legends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AccuWeather meteorologists are monitoring two areas in the southwestern Atlantic basin for tropical development for the first two weeks of June. At least one will directly affect the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Showers and thunderstorms began in the Southwest to end the weekend, but AccuWeather meteorologists say that more areas in the region will get wet throughout much of the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The new research comes after a decade of exploration by NASA's MAVEN mission shows evidence of an escape process known as "sputtering," during which atoms are knocked out of the atmosphere by what are known as "charge particles.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a quiet stretch during much of 2024, wildfire smoke from Canada is once again drifting into the United States. This time, AccuWeather meteorologists say that smoke will drift through parts of the Midwest over several days and can be thick enough in some areas to raise health and travel concerns. Also, AccuWeather meteorologists are homing in on potential tropical development in the Atlantic during the second week of June in waters from the Caribbean to the Gulf. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tropical Storm Alvin continues to move northward over the eastern Pacific and is expected to bring downpours to northwestern Mexico on Saturday. Also, a massive landslide thundered down a mountainside in Switzerland on Wednesday, destroying a village and burying homes under rocks, mud and water. At least one person is missing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The hottest weather of the season so far is on the way for many places across the interior West as the first heat wave of the season looms. But, how long will the heat last? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Forecasters are monitoring multiple zones near the southern U.S. and Central America for potential tropical development in early June, as hurricane season kicks off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This distant snapshot of the two galaxies in the process of merging into one large galaxy is about 11 billion light-years away. The observations provide a rare look into earlier times in the universe, when star formation and galaxy mergers were more common. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The severe weather siege will continue across the South Central states right through the extended holiday weekend, AccuWeather meteorologists say. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

While the West will be best, and some may shiver in the Northeast, dangerous conditions from flash flooding and severe thunderstorms will lurk from the southern Plains to the interior Southeast on Memorial Day. Plus, AccuWeather meteorologists are keeping an eye on possible tropical development in the Pacific. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

An ominous green sky is often associated with severe weather, but not every storm causes the sky to change colors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

How many hurricanes will there be this year? Will this season be worse than 2024? AccuWeather meteorologists have the answers to these questions and more ahead of the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Memorial Day weekend rain, storms to riddle northern Rockies to Gulf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

At least 19 people have died across the state, with 17 fatalities reported in Laurel County, one in Pulaski County and another in Russell County, according to Governor Andy Beshear.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tornadoes and flooding will be among the hazards that threaten more than a dozen states as a new outbreak of severe weather looms early in the week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A new round of severe weather turned deadly on Friday with multiple tornadoes tearing across the central United States, including one that prompted an urgent and rare tornado emergency in Illinois. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After a small lull in severe weather on Sunday, conditions may once again turn dangerous for many over the central United States by early next week. Also, Scientists using weather radar tracked 720 million birds in flight in the U.S. as they migrated northward across the country. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Parts of The Everglades have run dry as Florida suffers its worst drought since 2012, shuttering parts of local businesses and causing fish kills. Also, Dry conditions and, more recently, a surge of extreme heat contributed to wildfires in parts of the north-central United States. However, AccuWeather meteorologists say that some relief is on the way--at least in the shorter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

After somewhat of a lull in tornado activity in recent days, that threat may kick into high gear starting late this week over part of the central United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When looking at climate's effect on tornadoes, recent research has examined raw numbers, tornado strengths, and the location of Tornado Alley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Severe weather will continue in the Southeast and northern Rockies in the short term, then expand and shift to a large part of the Central and Eastern states as the week progresses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Record levels of Sargassum in the Atlantic may pile up on Florida and the Gulf Coast this summer. Plus, a few dry days on the way for the Northeast, hot weather will arrive in Southern California and the Central US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rain will pour down for days in parts of the southeastern United States into next week and that could go well beyond being beneficial for drought--flooding problems may ramp up; a mysterious, dark smoke ring was seen over Kansas on Monday, but scientists say smoke rings like this are usually man-made. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2025 tornado season has been the worst since 2011, with most of the tornadoes tracking through two states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The first tropical storm of the year could spin up later in May before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season begins on Sunday, June 1. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kosmos 482 was launched in 1972, but will soon make an uncontrolled return to Earth. Here's where the defunct spacecraft may crash land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Eta Aquarid meteor shower is about to peak, and will be sparked by debris from Halley's Comet -- one of the most well-known celestial objects. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AccuWeather's 2025 U.S. summer forecast, calls for frequent heat and worsening drought across a large area of the country. Meanwhile, millions will face a summer of thunderstorms and a looming tropical threat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rain and snow are returning to California and parts of the West, but significant drought relief remains unlikely for many areas in need. Also, it's the brightest time of the year across the Northern Hemisphere as solar summer is underway. Here's how it differs from meteorological and astronomical summer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Severe weather will persist day after day this week, threatening lives and property across more than a dozen states from the Plains to the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts. Also, A Florida man is being called a hero after swimming into a gator-inhabited lake to rescue a struggling bald eagle — and the dramatic moment was caught on camera. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A shift in the weather pattern and a trio of astronomy events will make May a great month for stargazing, starting with a meteor shower on May 5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Did you buy and plant flowers and vegetables yet in the Northeast? You may need to keep a close eye on the chilly nights ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Arkansas tornado survivors denied federal aid after Trump rejected disaster declaration. Also, as flooding cycles on the Mississippi Delta region, more rounds of heavy rain are on the way and could spark new flooding along small streams and perhaps some rivers in the central United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the daily dose of severe weather continues over parts of the central United States into next week, the risk to lives and property can be heightened by repeating storms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices