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Tropical Storm Ophelia formed off the mid-Atlantic coast and was expected to bring heavy rain, storm surge and windy conditions over the weekend, the National Hurricane Center said Friday.

New England is known for its fickle weather, powerful nor’easters and blizzards. Destructive hurricanes, however, are relatively rare and typically don’t pack the same punch as tropical cyclones that hit the Southeast. Hurricanes usually lose some steam, becoming tropical storms, or extratropical storms, in northern waters. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS New England, in the crosshairs of Hurricane Lee, is usually protected from...

Idalia became a hurricane on Tuesday as it intensified on a path toward Florida’s Gulf coast, with the National Hurricane Center warning of an increasing risk of life-threatening storm surge and dangerous hurricane-force winds in Florida in the next two days.

The likelihood of an ‘above-normal’ season has increased and forecasters believe the record-warm water temperatures have led to the new outlook.

A review of the status of the vanishing North Atlantic right whale found that the animal’s population is in worse shape than previously thought, federal ocean regulators said Monday.

The world’s oceans are much warmer than normal this summer with 40% of the oceans currently experiencing a marine heat wave according to NOAA.

The hottest day ever on Earth happened on July 3, 2023. The average global temperature reached 62.62 degrees Fahrenheit.

The northern lights are expected to dip farther south into the northern portion of the US Wednesday night thanks to a large burst of plasma and magnetic field from the sun that kicked off geomagnetic storm watches.

A boater was caught on video purposely hitting groups of sea lions near Hayden Island in Portland.

Searchers have located the Ironton, a freight schooner that plunged to the bottom of Lake Huron in 1894.

Humpback whales are dying in greater numbers along the Atlantic Coast, apparently as they follow their food closer to shore in the warming ocean waters, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries says the U.S. is experiencing an uptick in whale strandings on the Atlantic, with nearly two dozen whales winding up dead on beaches since Dec. 1, 2022.

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