Flash floods in Texas killed at least 80 and left dozens unaccounted for, including 10 girls and one counselor missing from a summer camp after the Guadalupe River surged early Friday following torrential rain. Also, the weather also turned deadly in New Jersey last week with a powerful line of thunderstorms swept through central New Jersey on Wednesday, leaving a trail of damage, widespread power outages and at least three fatalities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...
Jul 07, 2025•6 min
Flash floods killed 24 and left 25 girls missing from a summer camp after the Guadalupe River surged following torrential rain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 05, 2025•4 min
The danger comes from corded phones or mobile devices being actively charged during a storm. If your phone is charging and you're holding it when lightning hits, you're connected to your home’s electrical system—putting you at risk. Taking a shower, washing dishes or even running water from the tap can also put you in harm’s way. Even non-metal pipes can conduct electricity through the water itself. An insurance adjuster in Cape Coral, Florida, recently filmed heavy damage in a bathroom due to a...
Jul 04, 2025•6 min
Tropical development is possible from the southern Atlantic coast to the northeastern Gulf through the first full week of July, while Hurricane Flossie continues to churn in the eastern Pacific. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 03, 2025•6 min
Storms that erupt over portions of the central and southeastern United States could disrupt Independence Day activities. Also, a double meteor shower is on the way at the end of the month. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 02, 2025•5 min
An extreme and dangerous heat wave responsible for highs of 30-40 C (90s to low 100s F) will only slowly east in part of Europe and persist in other areas as the first week of July progresses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 01, 2025•5 min
As is often the case during the Independence Day holiday, thunderstorms will be on the prowl in some areas and part of the southern United States may need to watch the tropics. However, many areas will be free of rain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 30, 2025•5 min
A week-long heat wave set over 2,800 record high temperatures in towns across the nation, with some spots measuring their hottest June or all-time temperatures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 28, 2025•6 min
In the wake of Andrea's short tenure over the open Atlantic, tropical trouble can soon occur closer to home, with a risk of development from the eastern Gulf to the southeastern Atlantic in early July. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 27, 2025•5 min
Two people were bitten by sharks on Hilton Head Island within one week, and a 9-year-old girl was seriously injured in Florida. Experts stress that shark attacks remain rare. Another danger during the summer outdoor season is lightning and several incidents have been reported this month. The latest one happened Tuesday afternoon. Emergency services responded to a call at Lake Murray Dam, located around 15 miles west of Columbia, South Carolina, where 20 people were hit by a single bolt of lightn...
Jun 26, 2025•7 min
Relief from the heat in the Midwest and East is coming gradually for some, abruptly for others. Also, The women are lucky to be alive after a bolt of lightning struck the hut they were under while vacationing in Marco Island, Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 25, 2025•6 min
The first named tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season could occur this week as a tropical rainstorm tries to organize over the open ocean but will not impact the US. Also, the AccuWeather HeatWave Counter and Severity Index™ factors in both the length and severity of a heat wave, helping to better inform and prepare Americans for scorching conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 24, 2025•7 min
Record-smashing daytime temperatures near 100 degrees are expected for millions from the Plains to the East Coast this week, while nighttime temperatures may stay above 80 in some metropolitan areas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 23, 2025•7 min
This surging heat wave can be especially dangerous due to high humidity levels and a lack of consistent heat in many areas so far this year. In Chicago, it can be the "most intense heat wave in years." Also, NASA raised the chance for an asteroid to hit the moon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 21, 2025•7 min
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
Jun 20, 2025•5 min
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
Jun 19, 2025•5 min
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
Jun 18, 2025•5 min
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
Jun 17, 2025•4 min
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 condition...
Jun 16, 2025•6 min
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 ou...
Jun 14, 2025•7 min
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
Jun 13, 2025•7 min
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
Jun 12, 2025•6 min
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
Jun 11, 2025•4 min
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
Jun 10, 2025•5 min
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
Jun 09, 2025•6 min
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
Jun 07, 2025•5 min
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
Jun 06, 2025•5 min
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
Jun 05, 2025•4 min
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
Jun 04, 2025•4 min
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
Jun 03, 2025•4 min
