WASHINGTON—A massive winter storm is threatening vast regions of the United States from the South and Midwest to the East Coast. For weeks, winter weather has pummeled the United States’ northern tier, with cumulative snow totals of more than 2 meters (6 ½ feet) in some areas. “It’s getting a little tiring. I love Maine, […]
Nearly 30 million people in the northeastern United States are preparing for a powerful winter storm that could dump up to 90 centimeters of snow and cripple transportation. The National Weather Service said the storm, known as a nor’easter, would bring heavy snow, hurricane strength winds and widespread coastal flooding through Tuesday. The storm will […]
Searchers continue to find more bodies from the crashed AirAsia airliner that went down during a two-hour flight from Surabaya to Singapore on Tuesday. So far, at least 40 bodies have been pulled from the Java Sea of the coast of Borneo, no survivors have yet to be found as almost three dozen ships and […]
The ‘‘Pineapple Express’’ happens when warm air and lots of moisture are transported from the Central Pacific, near Hawaii, to the Eastern Pacific Ocean. An animation of satellite imagery from NOAA’s GOES-West satellite showed the stream of clouds associated with that moisture from Dec. 9 to Dec. 12, 2014 and brought rain and snow to […]