Day: January 3, 2025

A camera system designed to monitor California’s vast terrain for smoke and wildfires captured video on Friday of what is believed to be the first tornado to impact the Lower 48 in 2025. Meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Sacramento, which issues weather alerts for Northern California, issued a Tornado Warning for the storm cell based on its radar presentation. Forecasters stated they have not received any reports of damage.

For the second time in two years, a blanket of snow covered parts of the Sahara Desert in northern Africa, creating a rare and unexpected sight.

A major winter storm is set to sweep across much of the nation's middle section this weekend into early next week, bringing a swath of hazardous snow and ice. Track the storm's progress and forecast:

A Steller’s sea eagle was spotted in Terra Nova National Park in Canada, thousands of miles from its home in Far East Asia.

Today's top weather news for Friday, Jan. 3, 2025: America's first high-impact winter storm of the new year is expected to bring over a 1,500-mile swath of hazardous snow and ice across the central and eastern U.S. this weekend and into early next week.