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Hurricane Sally has made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane near Gulf Shores, Alabama. According to the National Hurricane Center, who’s been providing regular updates on storm activity, Sally made landfall at 4:45 a.m. local time. at the time, maximum sustained winds were reported as being at 105 mph with a minimum central pressure of 965 […]
Swarms of mosquitoes in Louisiana have left hundreds of cattle and some horses dead. WWLTV reports that, according to experts in southwest Louisiana, the clouds of mosquitoes became thick from Hurricane Laura, which, after it made landfall on Aug. 27, pushed the insects out of marshes. Veterinarian Craig Fontenot told the outlet that the mosquitoes […]
Two tropical storms are headed towards the Gulf Coast, and there’s a possibility they could make history by arriving at the same time. CBS News reports that Tropical Storm Laura and Tropical Storm Marco have both been gaining strength and are forecast to hit the Gulf Coast next week around one day apart and just miles from […]
Amid the heatwave that struck California over the last few days, Death Valley’s Furnace Creek recorded the hottest recorded temperature in the U.S. since 1913. On Sunday, Furnace Creek in the deserts of Southern California reached a temperature of 130 degrees Fahrenheit, the NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center confirmed. It is expected that the high temps in SoCal will […]
In a year where we’ve already had a once-in-a-century global pandemic, murder hornets, the release of videos showing an “unidentified aerial phenomena,” and the passing of the biggest Sahara dust storm in 50 years, it’s evident that if something out of the ordinary were to occur, it would happen in 2020. So, you shouldn’t be shocked to discover that […]
CNN reports the small Siberian town of Verkhoyansk had the hottest temperature ever recorded in the Arctic Circle of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit on Saturday, an alarming discovery for a place that posts an average high of 68 degrees Fahrenheit in the month of June. While the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) understands that Siberia is known for its large swings in month-to-month and yearly temperature, Verkhoyansk’s […]
The internet can be a dangerous place. Just take it from one TikTok user who almost died while filming a stunt. Jason Clark (aka @JasonToDoList) took to Instagram, where he revealed that one of his viral TikToks almost took his life. In the video, Clark dives into a hole in a frozen lake. He swims around […]
Last year was the second-hottest year ever recorded. The only year that has been hotter than 2019 was 2016, which was only warmer by 0.04 degrees Celsius, according to a new report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the European Union’s flagship climate monitoring organization. The report found that the last five years and this […]
Poor weather conditions resulted in an almost 70-car pileup on I-64 in Virginia. The crash happened on Sunday morning, The Virginian Pilot reports. Fifty-one people that were involved in the accident were subsequently taken to hospitals. Of those injuries, 11 were thought to be serious and two were life-threatening. The remainder of the injuries were […]
An earthquake hit near Puerto Rico late Monday, with subsequent reports on its strength stating its magnitude as 6.0. Per U.S. Geological Survey stats cited by the Associated Press, the quake struck approximately 49 miles off the island’s northwest coast at a shallow depth of 6 miles and resulted in three aftershocks varying between 4.7 […]
