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The mystery surfer who helped a struggling pigeon from the ocean in Florida is a mystery no more.

A New York man is facing charges after illegally owning a 13-foot-long pet snake that had grown too large for him to manage, prompting authorities to intervene.

Forecasters with the National Hurricane Center are keeping an eye on five tropical disturbances swirling in the Atlantic Basin, including a newly designated Invest 99L off the U.S. East Coast.

Disturbances with some chance of developing are scattered across the map.

Start your day with the latest weather news: Forecasters are now monitoring four tropical disturbances churning in the Atlantic while the flood threat continues in major cities across the South, including New Orleans.

The European Space Agency said an approximately 3-foot-wide asteroid struck Earth over the western Pacific on Wednesday afternoon. The asteroid was given the name of ‘2024 RW1’ and according to the ESA, the event was only the ninth incident that had been spotted prior to impact.

September is historically the peak of hurricane season, when there is the highest chance of tracking a cyclone across the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, but some years turn out to be more active than others.

Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis was declared the winner, with their Victoria ‘Longwood Hybrid’ Waterlily holding 142.5 pounds of weight and measuring five feet in diameter.

Europa, a NASA spacecraft named after the Jupiter moon it will study, could launch as soon as mid-October, beginning the journey to reveal if this suspected waterworld might support life.

Two areas of low pressure will be tracked around the Northeast this weekend, which will lead to breezy and rainy weather at times. Forecast models show the heaviest rainfall is likely to occur around the Great Lakes, in association with a low-pressure center entering from Canada.