Tonight, the weather turns much more active. Showers and a few thunderstorms will become more numerous through the evening, and some of these could produce some pretty heavy rain. It won’t rain nonstop for everyone, but there will be enough activity around that you’ll want to keep the umbrella close if you’re heading out. Temperatures will settle into the upper 60s and low 70s overnight.
A 2.0 magnitude earthquake was reported just before 8am in the town of Leslie, South Carolina, which is just east of Rock Hill.
Tropical Storm Laura formed Friday in the eastern Caribbean and forecasters said it poses a potential hurricane threat to Florida and the U.S. Gulf Coast. A second storm also may hit the U.S. after running into Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.
Greenland lost a record amount of ice during an extra warm 2019, with the melt massive enough to cover California in more than four feet (1.25 meters) of water, a new study said.
California sizzled to a triple-digit temperature so hot that meteorologists need to verify it as a planet-wide high mark.
Specialists from the University of Memphis are traveling to North Carolina to monitor aftershocks of this past weekend’s 5.1 magnitude earthquake, the school said.
Tropical Storm Josephine formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday morning, making it the earliest “J-named” storm in a record-setting hurricane season.
A magnitude 2.9 aftershock on Tuesday rattled the North Carolina town where a 5.1 earthquake on Sunday shook items from grocery store shelves and caused damage to homes and businesses, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A rare storm packing 100 mph winds and with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage and leaving hundreds of thousands without power as it moved through Chicago and into Indiana and Michigan.
