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Officials in Carolina Beach are urging residents to stay home as the town deals with ongoing flooding. The town has received more than 15 inches of rain since midnight Monday.
As Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight continues its approach toward the Carolina coast, conditions are deteriorating. Both flooding and strong winds have been reported.
The non-tropical disturbance offshore of Myrtle Beach is close to forming into a tropical storm, but it's still involved with a front and is being stretched out by hostile upper winds. It's called Potential Tropical Cyclone EIGHT, which just means that it could still develop into a tropical system before it makes landfall later today.
Potential Tropical Cyclone Eight formed off the Southeast U.S. coast on Sunday and is expected to become Tropical Storm Helene early this week.
Charged particles crashing into Earth are expected to create strong solar storm conditions early Monday morning, prompting a Geomagnetic Storm Watch as the Northern Lights could be visible farther south than usual.
The SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico in the pre-dawn hours Sunday morning after a five-day mission that included the first-ever private spacewalk.
Gray skies, gusty winds and periods of rain impact coastal sections of South and North Carolina as a low-pressure center develops offshore. The low has non-tropical origins but could develop into a tropical system late today or tomorrow before making landfall, probably in North Carolina.
An area of low pressure off the Southeast U.S. coast will be closely watched for tropical or subtropical development over the next couple of days as it could become the next named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.
Septemberâs Harvest Moon will provide skywatchers a chance to see a supermoon, a partial lunar eclipse and a full moon simultaneously. The Moon will not only appear brighter and more prominent, but Earth will cast a shadow on part of the lunar body. According to NASA, the eclipse will begin around 8:41 p.m. EDT on Sept. 17 and peak around 10:44 p.m. During the event, only around 8 percent of the Moon will fall under the shadow.
According to researchers, hurricanes and other systems that create significant pressure gradients can cause seismic events. Some have even labeled these eventsâ stormquakes,â though they are not believed to be particularly strong. Examples of hurricanes that have been linked to increased seismic activity include Hurricane Bill in 2009 off the coast of the Northeast, Hurricane Irene in 2011 off the coast of Florida, and Hurricane Ike in 2008. Experts at Florida State University have suggested that seismic events associated with strong low-pressure systems never exceed a magnitude of 3.5.