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It’s one of the first things you check when you get in your car: the temperature reading.
However, it might not be the most accurate, especially during the summer.
Watch the video above to see why the number might be a little higher than what the actual outside temperature is.
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Being angry is bad for your health. Even a brief amount of anger could negatively impact blood vessels, increasing the risk of stroke and heart disease, according to a new study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Heart Association.
“Observational studies have linked feelings of negative emotions with having a heart attack or other cardiovascular disease events,” Columbia University Irving Medical Center Dr. Daichi Shimbo said in the journal article accompanying the study results. “The most common negative emotion studied is anger, and there are fewer studies on anxiety and sadness, which have also been linked to heart attack risk.”
For the study, researchers randomly assigned 280 adults to one of four emotional tasks for eight minutes. They either had to recall a personal memory that made them angry, a personal memory that made them anxious or read a series of depressing sentences that evoked sadness or count repeatedly to induce a state of emotional neutrality.
The researchers then assessed the cells lining their blood vessels both before and after the assigned task to determine if the vessels’ ability to dilate was impaired or if it increased cell injury or the cells’ capacity to repair.
The only one of the four tasks that caused impairment to blood vessel dilation was recalling a personal memory of being angry.
“We saw that evoking an angered state led to blood vessel dysfunction, though we don’t yet understand what may cause these changes,” Shimbo said.
Blood vessels’ ability to relax is important for proper blood flow, according to the American Heart Association. Impaired blood vessels may increase the risk of atherosclerosis, of cholesterol building up in the artery walls, which may increase the risk of stroke and heart attack.
The new study bolsters an AHA report from in 2021 that found mental well-being can positively or negatively affect a person’s health.
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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is less than one month away, and the time to prepare is now. National Hurricane Preparedness Week began on May 5 and runs through May 11.
Even if you are not in a storm’s path, there are ways to prepare in advance that will make it easier for you when the time comes. It’s important to know if you live in an evacuation zone, and if so, to develop an evacuation plan for you and your family.
You can assemble a hurricane kit, including items like non-perishable food for your family and pets, water, flashlights, a first aid kit and more.
Also, reviewing your insurance plans if you own a home and to sign up for flood insurance if it is a separate plan.
Here is a full breakdown of how to prepare you and your family and what you can do today.
Colorado State University released its outlook for the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season in April, and their researchers are forecasting above normal activity this season. It’s the most activity ever forecasted in a preseason outlook since CSU began issuing them in 1995.
This year’s forecast includes several factors, primarily record warm sea surface temperatures in the eastern and central Atlantic. Warm water acts as fuel for tropical systems.
Global climate models and forecasters also suggest a transition to La Niña conditions by the peak of Atlantic hurricane season. According to CSU, “La Niña typically increases Atlantic hurricane activity through decreases in vertical wind shear.”
As always, it only takes one storm to make it a bad season. Here is a full breakdown of this year’s Atlantic hurricane season forecast.
The National Hurricane Center is introducing some fresh changes to the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season you can expect to see.
Two new names are on the list this year after Florence and Michael were retired after the 2018 season. The new names replacing them will be Francine and Milton. Here is what to know about the 2024 Atlantic hurricane names.
Along with the new names, the National Hurricane Center will experiment with some tweaks to the cone of uncertainty this season. Inland tropical watches and warnings will now be shown on an experimental map with the cone to better convey threats.
Here is a full breakdown of the changes you can expect to see this hurricane season.
Our team of meteorologists dives deep into the science of weather and breaks down timely weather data and information. To view more weather and climate stories, check out our weather blogs section.
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This week, the two Republican candidates for State Auditor, Jack Clark and Dave Boliek, join host Tim Boyum.
The two aim share their backgrounds with voters, what they hope to bring to this elected position and their focus if elected. Neither got the 30%+ necessary to avoid a runoff and face the current state auditor, Democrat Jessica Holmes, in the fall.
The candidates will face off in the second primary on May 14.
About the Podcast
With the speed of the local news cycle, it’s easy to forget that the politicians who represent us and the influencers in our communities are more than just a sound bite. North Carolina’s veteran reporter and anchor, Tim Boyum, loosens his signature bow tie to give listeners a glimpse behind the curtain, showing us who these power players really are and why they do what they do. Through Tim’s candid conversations on “Tying It Together,” his guests reveal their most fascinating life stories, passions, and help all of us get a better grasp on the issues affecting our communities.
Do you have any thoughts or questions for Tim? Weigh in on X with the hashtag #TyingItTogetherNC. Afterward, rate the podcast and leave a review to tell us what you think!
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The weekend-long series of thunderstorms and snowstorms across Colorado will linger Sunday, according to the National Weather Service.
Lingering rain showers may remain over the plains Sunday in northeast and north central Colorado. Mountain snow showers will diminish throughout the day but a few additional inches of snow is possible. Widespread rain showers may return Wednesday with a few inches of snowfall for the northern mountains, according to NWS forecasters.
There is a slight chance of rain showers in Denver on Sunday morning with possible showers and thunderstorms after noon. Sunday will be partly sunny with a high of 59 degrees and a 30% chance of precipitation. Wind gusts could reach 15 miles per hour.
Sunday evening will be partly cloudy with a low of 39 degrees and a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday are expected to be mostly clear with highs around 70 degrees. Rain and thunderstorms return Wednesday with a 40% percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon and may continue throughout the week.
Showers, high elevation snow showers and thunderstorms will develop later in the day in higher terrain portions of central, east and south central and southeast Colorado and move over the plains Sunday evening, according to the NWS.
Lingering snow showers with light accumulation will continue over the mountains and higher terrain of Teller and El Paso County. Freezing fog is possible for portions of the Palmer Divide.
There is a slight chance that some of these showers and thunderstorms may produce flash flooding for burn scar and urbanized areas. Wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour and dangerous cloud to ground lightning with hail up to half an inch in diameter is possible. There may be a few additional inches of snow over the southern Sangre de Cristo and Wet Mountains.
Critical fire weather conditions return to portions of the San Luis Valley and eastern plains on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Showers and thunderstorms are possible Sunday afternoon and evening in western Colorado. Dry conditions return Monday with a light chance of precipitation along the Wyoming and Colorado. More widespread precipitation may return to western Colorado Wednesday into Thursday.
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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season doesn’t begin until June 1, but we’re already watching an area of low pressure in the eastern Atlantic.
The disturbance is about 900 miles northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. As this system moves southwestward, it will get torn apart by strong upper-level winds tonight and Thursday.
No additional development is expected.
Even though this system isn’t expected to develop, storms can always form before Atlantic hurricane season begins.
The 2024 hurricane season outlook from Colorado State is calling for an extremely active season. You can read their seasonal outlook here.
Our team of meteorologists dives deep into the science of weather and breaks down timely weather data and information. To view more weather and climate stories, check out our weather blogs section.
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Schools will need to phase in meals with less sugar and salt under new nutrition standards the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. The new rules will phase in gradually between fall 2025 and fall 2027.
“This is designed to ensure that students have quality meals and that we meet parents’ expectation that their children are receiving healthy and nutritious meals at school,” Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said Tuesday during a briefing on the new rules.
The new nutrition standards call for limiting added sugars in cereals, yogurts and flavored milks by fall 2025 and reducing sodium 10% in breakfasts and 15% in lunches by fall 2027. Beginning this fall, schools will also have the option of requiring unprocessed agricultural products to be locally grown, raised or caught when purchased for school meal programs.
“The goal here is to make sure that we are doing everything we can to be supportive of our own producers and our own industry,” Vilsack said.
Schools will have limits on the percentage of non-American grown and produced foods they can purchase starting with the 2025-2026 school year. Non-American foods will be capped at 10% in fall 2025 and reduce to 8% by fall 2028 and 5% by fall 2031.
The USDA expects the new rules will result in a 1% cost increase over the next 10 years.
About 30 million children receive breakfasts and lunches at K-12 schools. The USDA says school meals are the main source of nutrition for more than half of the children who receive them.
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Widespread flooding in Dubai last week has people wondering if cloud seeding is to blame for the disaster. The short answer is no, but here, I explain why that is the case.
In order to understand cloud seeding, one must understand how rain develops.
In order to make it rain, you need moisture, a lifting mechanism in the atmosphere, and something for the moisture to condense on to.
That last part is what cloud seeding focuses on.
Condensation nuclei is the term for tiny particles in the air in which water vapor can condense on to, which in turn creates a rain drop.
There are plenty of naturally occurring condensation nuclei in the atmosphere.
Some examples are dust, smoke, pollen, sea salt, and other naturally occurring particles.
Humans have artificially added some of these particles to the air in an effort to enhance rainfall and we have been doing it for decades.
This is known as cloud seeding.
Silver iodide is the particular agent of choice for cloud seeding.
In order for cloud seeding to be successful, it must be done in an existing storm.
As stated earlier, without moisture and atmospheric lift, condensation nuclei are useless in producing rain.
In the case of cloud seeding, humans are attempting to make more raindrops in a given cloud.
Artificially adding condensation nuclei to the air in an existing storm can increase rainfall by up to 20%, but this is under ideal conditions.
So in the case of the Dubai flood, cloud seeding likely had little impact on its outcome.
Even if rainfall amounts were 10 to 20 percent less, similar flooding would have still occurred.
In any case, it’s hard to quantify how much, if any, of this rain was enhanced by cloud seeding. It likely was much less than 20 percent.
Weather models, including the one below, were predicting widespread flooding in the Dubai area days ahead of the event.
These models do not include the effects cloud seeding in their algorithms.
The city of Al Ain recorded 10 inches of rain from the storm, with around 6 inches at the Dubai airport. This is twice the city’s annual average.
Our team of meteorologists dives deep into the science of weather and breaks down timely weather data and information. To view more weather and climate stories, check out our weather blogs section.
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Widespread flooding in Dubai last week has people wondering if cloud seeding is to blame for the disaster. The short answer is no, but here, I explain why that is the case.
In order to understand cloud seeding, one must understand how rain develops.
In order to make it rain, you need moisture, a lifting mechanism in the atmosphere, and something for the moisture to condense on to.
That last part is what cloud seeding focuses on.
Condensation nuclei is the term for tiny particles in the air in which water vapor can condense on to, which in turn creates a rain drop.
There are plenty of naturally occurring condensation nuclei in the atmosphere.
Some examples are dust, smoke, pollen, sea salt, and other naturally occurring particles.
Humans have artificially added some of these particles to the air in an effort to enhance rainfall and we have been doing it for decades.
This is known as cloud seeding.
Silver iodide is the particular agent of choice for cloud seeding.
In order for cloud seeding to be successful, it must be done in an existing storm.
As stated earlier, without moisture and atmospheric lift, condensation nuclei are useless in producing rain.
In the case of cloud seeding, humans are attempting to make more raindrops in a given cloud.
Artificially adding condensation nuclei to the air in an existing storm can increase rainfall by up to 20%, but this is under ideal conditions.
So in the case of the Dubai flood, cloud seeding likely had little impact on its outcome.
Even if rainfall amounts were 10 to 20 percent less, similar flooding would have still occurred.
In any case, it’s hard to quantify how much, if any, of this rain was enhanced by cloud seeding. It likely was much less than 20 percent.
Weather models, including the one below, were predicting widespread flooding in the Dubai area days ahead of the event.
These models do not include the effects cloud seeding in their algorithms.
The city of Al Ain recorded 10 inches of rain from the storm, with around 6 inches at the Dubai airport. This is twice the city’s annual average.
Our team of meteorologists dives deep into the science of weather and breaks down timely weather data and information. To view more weather and climate stories, check out our weather blogs section.
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Earth Day marks the birth of the modern environment movement in 1970.
It falls on the same calendar day each year, April 22.
Its popularity has grown around the globe with more than 1 billion participants each year. Not only is Earth Day a day where people pick up trash around the world, but its ideas also led to policy changes within governments to push toward a cleaner environment.
Watch the video above to see how Earth Day got its start.
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CHEROKEE, N.C. — The Great Smoky Cannabis Co. in the Qualla Boundary has opened to medical patients. It is the only dispensary in the state where marijuana can be legally purchased.
In 2021, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council voted to legalize medical marijuana in the Qualla Boundary. Marijuana remains illegal in North Carolina and federally. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians’ laws on medical cannabis apply only on tribal land.
To purchase from the dispensary, buyers must be 21 or older and have an Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians medical cannabis patient card or an approved medical marijuana card from a different state.
The morning of April 20, or 4/20, a day celebrated by advocates of legalized cannabis, lines ran out of the dispensary doors as people from near and far gathered for the opening day.
Chris Suttle was one of the first in line, traveling from Chapel Hill to attend the grand opening. He said he’s been waiting 32 years for this day.
“My phone was blowing up with people, just sending me messages going, ‘I just got the phone call! My card is available for pickup!’” Suttle said. “I’ve seen so many familiar faces in line today, people that have talked with me for the last five or six years, waiting for this day to come, waiting for the day that we don’t have to die in the dark anymore, and we can finally learn to grow and heal in the light.”
Seven years ago, Suttle was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and was told he had about 9 to 12 months to live.
“I created my own microdosing procedure, and I started microdosing on a regular basis for three months,” Suttle said. “When I went back in to do the next MRI, the tumor had shrunk by 0.1 centimeters, and three months after that, I was given a clean bill of health.”
Suttle said that experience led him to open a North Carolina lobbyist organization for the legalization of cannabis and psychedelics.
“I decided that first appointment when they told me the tumor had shrunk, that if cannabis saved my life, that I would dedicate my life to it,” Suttle said.
Suttle said he helped multiple patients sign up for their medical cards — teaching them how to pull forms from their patient portals and what doctor notes and materials would be accepted.
“We get to come together and finally have access to the medicine that we deserve,” he said.
Suttle reflected on the broad impacts he anticipates the dispensary will have, believing it will help medical patients and elevate tourism in the Qualla Boundary.
“As long as they follow the rules and they don’t take products outside of the boundary, they have nothing to fear when they’re here,” he said. “They can enjoy the casino. They can enjoy the wonderful nature trails, the waterfalls.”
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Only a handful of states can claim a single-family home sale topping $100 million. Colorado has joined that rarified group with the record $108 million closing on Monday of 419 Willoughby Way on Aspen’s Red Mountain.
“It is great for the market. It is a testament to how special a community Aspen is on a global scale,” said listing agent Riley Warwick, who is with the Saslove & Warwick Team at Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
The founder of the Bellagio and Wynn resort casinos, Steve Wynn, teamed up with Thomas Peterffy, a pioneer in computerized and discount stock trading, to purchase the home for close to the $110 million the Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month.
Patrick Dovigi, founder and CEO of Green for Life Environmental and a former professional hockey player in Canada, was the seller. Dovigi, who has invested in several Aspen properties, purchased the home in 2021 for $72.5 million from Lewis Sanders, former chairman and CEO of Sanford C. Bernstein.
“Only a few markets have reached that kind of sale,” said Julie Morrah, president of Aspen Title & Escrow, which handled the title and escrow work on the purchase.
The U.S. saw its first $100 million home sale two decades ago. Since then, about two dozen sales, not counting Monday’s purchase, have crossed that mark, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Most $100 million-plus home sales have happened in Manhattan; Miami and Palm Beach, Fla.; Los Angeles and Malibu, Calif.; and Hawaii. Aspen now joins that list.
Monday’s sale busted a short-lived record for Colorado set last Thursday of $77 million paid for Owl Creek Ranch, also in Aspen.
So how did Dovigi reap a 50% return in just three years? He and his wife, an interior designer, remodeled the property, originally built in 2009.
The house sits in a prime location at the base of Red Mountain overlooking Aspen. At 22,405 square feet, the house has 11 bedrooms and 17 bathrooms, a guest house, a large garage, and a heated outdoor pool.
Pitkin County has capped future home construction at a maximum of 9,250 square feet, Warwick said. Unless the rules change, Aspen won’t ever see a new home built at that size, so scarcity also helped push the price higher.
Unlike a traditional closing where sellers, buyers and their agents sit across from each other at a table and hand over keys once the wire clears, the deal was done remotely and through attorneys, which is typical for the highest-end homes.
“You have a lot of attorneys involved doing a lot of the heavy lifting,” Morrah said, noting that a deal of that size had extra tight security.
The progression of Colorado’s highest-priced home, which was privately listed, was as follows, according to Zillow:
Land was acquired for $7 million in September 2003. The home first sold for $43 million in July 2009. It sold again for $72.5 million in June 2021. On Monday it sold a third time for $108 million.
Zillow had pegged the house’s value at $90.2 million. A separate sale included furnishings and private artwork which was not disclosed.
Most high-end luxury homes trade for cash. But had the buyers taken out a mortgage, Zillow estimates the monthly payments would have been around $644,236.
To put that in perspective, the median price of a home sold last month in Colorado was $551,000, according to the Colorado Association of Realtors.
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ERWIN, N.C. — A school bus carrying six students flipped over In Harnett County Monday morning, according to Natalie Tucker Ferrell with Harnett County Schools.
The bus was originally headed to Harnett County Early College, Ferrell said. No one was hurt, she said.
Nine students and two adults were injured when a school bus in Burke County ran off the road and flipped last week, as reported by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
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Rain is expected in Denver on Monday, but high fire danger persists throughout the plains and Palmer Divide while heavy snow is possible in the mountains, according to the National Weather Service.
Denverites can expect breezy, sunny weather with a high of 74 degrees and wind gusts as high as 34 miles per hour on Monday. A 20 percent chance of showers after 3 p.m. increases to 60 percent with gusts as high as 37 miles per hour before 9 p.m. Monday night will hit a low of 48 with a chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9 p.m. and after midnight and a chance of showers between 9 p.m. and midnight.
Temperatures will continue to drop Tuesday and cloudy, breezy weather is expected. A high of 68 degrees with wind gusts around 38 miles per hour and a 50 percent chance of showers before noon Tuesday drops to 44 degrees that night with wind gusts decreasing to 31 miles per hour.
Warm, dry and windy weather will create critical fire weather conditions across much of the Colorado eastern plains Monday afternoon and evening with strong winds and low humidity increasing fire danger south of Interstate 76.
A red flag warning is in effect from noon to 8 p.m. Monday for the Palmer Divide and plains southeast of Interstate 76. Southwest winds with gusts up to 45 miles per hour and humidity as low as seven percent will create favorable conditions for rapid fire spread. Wind gusts may reach 50 miles per hour in Lincoln County.
Higher humidity levels decrease fire weather conditions north of Denver and throughout the mountains. A winter storm warning from 3 p.m. Monday to 3 p.m. Tuesday is in place for Rocky Mountain National Park, the Medicine Bow Range, the Mountains of Summit County, the Mosquito Range and the Indian Peaks. Total snow accumulation between 8 and 18 inches with and wind gusts as high as 60 miles per hour is expected.
Heaviest snow is expected to hit the northern Front Range mountains, while wind gusts will be strongest over the southern Front Range. Roads will likely become slick and blowing snow will reduce visibility.
A winter weather advisory is also in effect from 3 p.m. Monday to 3 p.m. Tuesday for the Park Range and Rabbit Ears Pass. Snow accumulation will be between 6 and 12 inches with wind gusts as high as 40 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.
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Authorities are investigating a plane crash that occurred in the San Bernardino Mountains on Saturday night, officials said.
The twin-engine Gulfstream AC95 crashed at about 8:15 p.m. in the mountains north of Palm Avenue, according to preliminary information from the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials did not know how many people were on board, or whether anyone survived.
The remote area is difficult to access by foot or vehicle, and search efforts were initially hampered by rain and wind that lashed the area Saturday night, officials said.
By Sunday morning, authorities had located a debris field north of Devil’s Canyon, and members of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Aviation Unit were on the scene along with search and rescue crews, said Gloria Huerta, a spokesperson with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Rescue workers were being hoisted down a mountain and attempting to hike to the debris field, she said.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates as more information becomes available.
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Strong storms moved through North Carolina Thursday, taking down trees and power lines from the coast to the foothills.
Officials with the National Weather Service plan to survey possible tornado damage in Rowan, Wilkies and possibly Surry counties Friday. Storms there damaged buildings and took down trees.
Wind gusts in Raleigh hit 54 mph. The winds were stronger along the coast, where Jacksonville recorded top gusts at 60 mph.
In parts of western North Carolina, people saw more that two inches of rain over 24 hours. Foscoe, not far from Boone, recorded 3.69 inches of rain. Seven Devils had 2.78 inches of rain and Blowing Rock recorded 2.69 inches.
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BOONE, N.C. — Andy Sicard, superintendent at Grandfather Mountain State Park, says the park has over 73 rare and endangered species, including the Virginia big-eared bat.
He says the bats are extremely sensitive to human disturbance, so they check on them biannually.
“We are gentle. We don’t try to handle any of them if we don’t have to. In handling them, it’s very rare, so basically try to count how many there are so we sit real still,” Sicard said.
He says for many years they only knew where the bats were in the winter, but now they know where they live in the summer as well.
Sicard said they keep the bats’ location a secret to protect them but said all caves in North Carolina are off limits.
“It is a globally in-peril species, so it’s a G4 category, which basically means if anyone is disturbing that habitat or trying to interfere with the bats themselves could be criminally charged,” Sicard said.
He said the bats like it between 34 and 54 degrees, so even having humans go into the caves changes the temperature enough that they will leave.
They remind everyone not to go near the bats because the bat is so small, and they must be protected.
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A Burke County school bus ran off the road and flipped Tuesday morning, injuring the nine students and two adults on board, according to the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The wreck happened at about 7:25 a.m. on Johnson Bridge Road near Old NC 10 in Hildebran, just west of Hickory.
“The driver was traveling west on Johnson Bridge Road, lost control, ran off the right side of the road, struck a ditch, and overturned. The bus came to rest on its top,” a Highway Patrol spokesman said in a news release.
The children were taken to hospitals in the area with injuries described as “non-life-threatening,” officials said. The bus driver also went to the hospital with minor injuries.
The other adult on the bus “became partially entrapped” and had to be taken by helicopter to a hospital in Charlotte. That adult is listed in serious condition, according to the Highway Patrol.
The bus is for students with handicaps and serves several schools in Burke County, the Highway Patrol spokesman said.
Police cited the driver for “failure to maintain lane control,” officials said.
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On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cast a shadow of totality across parts of 15 states. Check out this list of live cameras and watch the skies darken as they enter totality.
1:34 p.m. CT: San Antonio (TxDOT)
1:36-1:37 p.m. CT: Austin (TxDOT)
1:36 p.m. CT: Kyle
1:38-1:42 p.m. CT: Waco (TxDOT)
1:40-1:44 p.m. CT: Dallas (TxDOT)
1:40-1:44 p.m. CT: Dallas skyline (EarthCam)
1:40-1:44 p.m. CT: Dallas/Reunion Tower (EarthCam)
1:40-1:44 p.m. CT: Dallas Eye (Earthcam)
1:42-1:46 p.m. CT: Greenville
1:44-1:46 p.m. CT: Big Sandy
1:49-1:53 p.m. CT: Hot Springs (Instacam)
1:50-1:54 p.m. CT: Russellville (Angelcam)
1:59-2:04 p.m. CT: Marion (City of Marion)
2:00-2:02 p.m. CT: Paducah (WMVision)
3:05-3:09 p.m. ET: Bloomington (Indiana University)
3:06-3:10 p.m. ET: Carmel
3:06-3:10 p.m. ET: Carmel – Carter Green Amphitheater
3:07-3:11 p.m. ET: Nashville (EarthCam)
3:09-3:13 p.m. ET: Troy (TroyOhio.gov)
3:10-3:14 p.m. ET: Deshler
3:12-3:16 p.m. ET: Cedar Point (Cedar Point)
3:13-3:14 p.m. ET: Apple Valley Lake
3:13-3:17 p.m. ET: Lorain
3:13-3:17 p.m. ET: Cleveland
3:13-3:17 p.m. ET: Cleveland (EarthCam)
3:13-3:17 p.m. ET: Cleveland Public Square (EarthCam)
3:13-3:17 p.m. ET: Edgewater Park (Cleveland Metro Parks)
3:14-3:18 p.m. ET: Fairport Harbor (Angelcam)
3:15-3:18 p.m. ET: Geneva-on-the-Lake
3:16-3:20 p.m. ET: Erie (Epic Web Studios)
3:16-3:20 p.m. ET: North East (east view)
3:16-3:20 p.m. ET: North East (west view)
3:18-3:21 p.m. ET: Sunset Bay (Lake Erie Sunset Bay Live Cams)
3:18-3:22 p.m. ET: Niagara Falls (Maid of the Mist)
3:18-3:22 p.m. ET: Niagara Falls
3:18-3:22 p.m. ET: Buffalo
3:20-3:24 p.m. ET: Fairport on the Erie Canal (Village of Fairport)
3:22-3:26 p.m. ET: Watertown
3:22-3:26 p.m. ET: Watertown
3:22-3:26 p.m. ET: Sackets Harbor
3:23-3:24 p.m. ET: Syracuse (ArmoryCam.com)
3:23-3:24 p.m. ET: Syracuse (Syracuse Mets)
3:23-3:26 p.m. ET: St. Lawrence County
3:26-3:29 p.m. ET: Colchester
3:26-3:29 p.m. ET: Mallets Bay
3:26-3:29 p.m. ET: Burlington (Hazecam)
3:27-3:29 p.m. ET: Stowe (EarthCam)
3:27-3:29 p.m. ET: Duxbury (National Life Group)
3:30-3:33 p.m. ET: Rockwood
3:31-3:34 p.m. ET: Mt. Katahdin
3:31-3:34 p.m. ET: Mt. Katahdin
3:32-3:35 p.m. ET: Presque Isle (crownofmaine.com)
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The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season will follow up on a busy 2023 season. The 2023 season totaled 20 named storms, with 7 of those becoming hurricanes and 3 of those 7 becoming major (Category 3 or greater) hurricanes.
Of those hurricanes, Hurricane Idalia was the only hurricane that made landfall in the U.S. last year. It was a Category 3 hurricane with max winds of 125 mph when it moved inland in Keaton Beach, Fla. on Aug. 30.
The other two named storms that made landfall in U.S. were Harold and Ophelia. Tropical Storm Harold made landfall on Padre Island, Texas on Aug. 22 and Tropical Storm Ophelia made landfall near Emerald Isle, N.C. on Sept. 23.
With the expected return of La Niña conditions, forecasts for the upcoming season call for above-normal activity. Colorado State University’s outlook is forecasting the highest amount of storms since it began issuing them in 1995.
Along with the likely transition to La Niña conditions, record-warm tropical and eastern Atlantic sea surface temperatures are a primary factor in the 2024 outlook. Click here for a breakdown of the 2024 Hurricane Season outlook.
A storm gets named when it achieves tropical storm status (winds of 39 mph or higher). It becomes a hurricane when winds reach 74 mph, but keeps the same name. In meteorology, any tropical storm or greater is referred to as a tropical cyclone.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) creates lists of names and cycles each list every six years. Each list contains 21 names, alternating between male and female names. A name may be retired if it is deemed too destructive by the WMO and they would add a new name to the list.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), hundreds of years ago, tropical cyclones were named after Saint’s Day, which occurred nearest to the day of the storm. Consider, “Hurricane Santa Ana,” a violent storm that hit Puerto Rico on July 26, 1825.
Before 1950, storms were noted by their latitude and longitude. This proved problematic when trying to relay information to the public. It was confusing, so meteorologists streamlined this process using the phonetic alphabet to name the storms (Able, Baker, Charlie, etc.).
Starting in 1953, storms were given female names. Rumor has it that a member of the committee was angry at his wife and wanted to name a storm after her.
Whether that’s true, Alice was the first named storm of the 1953 season. All-female names continued until 1979, when male names were added to alternate within the list.
Prior to 2021, after the 21 names were exhausted, the Greek alphabet was used. 2005 and 2020 were the only two seasons to feature the Greek alphabet.
However, this proved difficult for several reasons, including what would happen after a storm was so destructive the name should be retired, as was the case for Eta and Iota in 2020. Additionally, coronavirus variants use Greek letters, adding to possible confusion.
To account for these issues, the WMO created a supplemental names list. This list featured another 21 names from A to W that alternate male and female names. This list will remain the same each year, only swapping out a name if it is retired.
Now is the time to reevaluate your hurricane preparedness kit. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, your kit should include, at a minimum:
Depending on your family’s requirements, you may need to include medical care items, baby supplies, pet supplies, and other things, such as extra car and house keys.
Additional supplies might include towels, plastic sheeting, duct tape, scissors, and work gloves.
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Meteorologist Stacy Lynn
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