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Priscilla could have a big impact on Saturday’s BYU-Arizona football game in Tucson. That’s “Tropical Storm Priscilla” to us landlocked types who are used to different kinds of storms. Reports indicate the southwestern United States may get more than a month’s worth of rain this weekend, and that includes Tucson, home of Arizona Stadium, where the 18th-raned Cougars and Wildcats …

A nor’easter is set to hit Boston during what’s always a busy holiday weekend for fall weather activities in New England.   Tens of thousands flock up north for the amazing hiking and fall foliage. The local farms will be buzzing with apple and pumpkin pickers. It is also a popular weekend for folks to shut down their lake homes …

A powerful nor’easter storm is expected to slam New Jersey this weekend with wind gusts up to 50 mph and up to 5 inches of rain from Sunday into Monday. Sustained winds between 30 and 40 mph could gust up to 50 mph along the Jersey Shore, according to the latest briefing from the National Weather Service . These winds …

Nor’easter to Bring Wild Weekend Weather Along the East Coast  The New York Times Significant nor’easter will lash the East Coast this weekend with rain, wind and coastal flooding  CNN Nor’easter to Bring Heavy Rain, High Winds, Floods to East Coast  Yahoo Tropical Storm Jerry Forecast To Brush Leeward Islands Tonight, Could Become A Hurricane Friday  The Weather Channel Nor’easter threatens weekend plans in …

We have a suite of incredibly advanced, complex instruments to study the weather on Earth. Space weather isn’t any less complicated—quite the opposite, in fact—and so one would think that the measures we take to watch for such events should match that complexity. Astronomers, however, aren’t so sure we’re doing nearly enough. In a paper published October 6 in The …

A deadly tornado that tore across southeastern North Dakota this summer has been upgraded to an EF5 with winds topping 200 mph (322 kph), the strongest classification of tornado and the first on American soil in a dozen years, meteorologists said Monday. The June 20 twister in Enderlin killed three people and caused significant damage. At its largest, the tornado …

The Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval will have a few twists for its eighth season of playing host to NASCAR national series events. The road course within the 1.5-mile oval will hold races from four series this weekend, including the debuts of the Craftsman Truck Series and the IMSA Ford Mustang Challenge, a single-make sports-car series. The Trucks’ inaugural event at …

The latest weather forecast doesn’t come from Dublin, London or New York — it comes from deep space, where a lonely world drifts without a sun and glows with auroras more dazzling than Earth’s northern lights. The world, called SIMP-0136, is about 200 million years old and lies about 20 light-years away in the constellation Pisces. It isn’t quite a …

Today Governor Stein declared a State of Emergency as North Carolina prepares for heavy rainfall and potential impacts from Tropical Depression 9 or future named storm Imelda. “North Carolinians across the state should prepare for tropical weather to bring heavy rainfall and potential flooding,” said Governor Josh Stein. “This State of Emergency will enable North Carolina’s State Emergency Response Team …

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Rochester may have missed out on the total solar eclipse in April 2024 due to clouds, but it has another chance to see a once in a lifetime astronomical event called the “Blaze Star”. Its full name is T Coronae Borealis, and it is a very dim star found in the constellation Corona Borealis (Latin for “Northern …