Spiders are fascinating for so many reasons, but can their behaviour actually predict the weather?
I spoke to Catherine Scott, arachnologist and behavioural ecologist, to get the breakdown on several myths surrounding our eight-legged friends.
Watch the video above to see the spider expert separate fact from fiction when it comes to weather lores.
Get ready for another round of travel issues across parts of Ontario this weekend as a robust storm crosses the border.
A dam in northern Arizona has burst its banks, flooding the valley and prompting evacuationsYavapai County Flood Control District
More than 50 million people across a large swath of the nation were on alert Thursday for tornados, large hail, damaging winds and flooding after a severe weather outbreak spawned by a "bomb cyclone" in California moved east, leaving a wake of destruction from mudslides, tree-toppling gusts and the largest twister to hit the Los Angeles area in 40 years. Residents of Texas and Oklahoma and up to Pennsylvania are bracing for large hail, flooding and tornadoes Thursday night. The wild weather system is the same one that blew in from the Pacific Ocean in Northern California as a "bomb cyclone," packing powerful winds that toppled more than 700 trees in San Francisco and killed at least five people in the Bay Area who were either struck by falling limbs or uprooted trees, officials said.
Spring may feel like it’s on hold for many in Ontario and parts of southern Quebec this weekend as another messy system brings more rain, snow, and ice to the provinces.
The popular South County lake last spilled in 1998.
As the snowpack on the Sierra Nevada mountains melts, flooding in the Central Valley will remain a concern for weeks and months to come, experts say. There has been a "catastrophic level of water," Tricia Stever Blattler, executive director of the Tulare County Farm Bureau, which represents more than 1,100 farms and ranches in the San Joaquin Valley county, told ABC News. "We're still just experiencing so much more water in these storms than can possibly be held back by these dams," she said, calling this a "50-year event."
The stormy weather pattern across much of the United States shows no signs of abating over the next couple of days as we head into the weekend.
California’s drought conditions show vast improvement over the last three months.
(Bloomberg) -- The costs of California’s relentless winter storms keep rising. And outside of the human toll — with at least 28 people killed since January — the price will be measured in billions.The “bomb cyclone” that lashed San Francisco on Tuesday was the latest in an epic series of extreme weather events to hit California since New Year’s Eve. It blew out windows from skyscrapers, flung barges into a historic bridge, sent trees tumbling across roads, knocked down power lines, and threatene
The northern lights shimmered in Canada’s starry night sky on Thursday, March 23.Timelapse footage taken by the Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada shows the vibrant green and purple aurora appearing to dance over stars in the night sky.“Looking straight up at the corona from near Carseland, Alberta. The two bright stars are Castor and Pollux in the constellation of Gemini,” the nonprofit organization tweeted.The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center issued a Geomagnetic Storm Watch for March 23 to 25, forecasting a G2 (moderate) geomagnetic storm for overnight Thursday, and a G1 (minor) geomagnetic storm for Friday night. Credit: Calgary Centre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada via Storyful
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A rare tornado touched down in a Los Angeles suburb, ripping roofs off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky and across a city block, injuring one person. The National Weather Service sent teams to assess damage in Montebello and later confirmed that a tornado had touched down around 11:20 a.m. Wednesday. The weather service said that the tornado was an EF1, a measurement on the Enhanced Fujita Scale that indicates it had winds of 86 mph t
As historic storms fill once-dry Tulare Lake and submerge prime California farmland, tensions are building over how to handle the swiftly rising floodwaters.
A rare yet powerful tornado struck a Los Angeles suburb on Wednesday, ripping roofs off a line of commercial buildings and sending the debris twisting into the sky. One person was injured in the extreme weather, with the National Weather Service confirming the tornado had touched down in Montebello at around 11.20am on Wednesday. The weather service later said that the tornado had winds of 86mph to 110mph, making it the strongest tornado to hit the Los Angeles metropolitan area since March 1983.
Michigan has experienced an uncharacteristically mild winter. A late-season burst of snow gives Byron a chance to test out the 330e's snow tires.
Death Valley is the hottest place on Earth, having "the highest air temperature on the planet." Average summer temps exceed 113 degrees Fahrenheit.
A winter storm was bearing down o parts of California, as well as the Plains and Midwest on Wednesday. Latest updates.
DUNNIGAN, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom ended some of the state's water restrictions on Friday because a winter of relentless rain and snow has replenished the state's reservoirs and eased fears of a shortage after three years of severe drought. Most of California is no longer in drought, according to an update by the U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday. But water shortage concerns remain for some areas of the state, including the Klamath River basin along the California-Oregon border
Parts of Newfoundland, an island where Mother Nature laughs at the spring solstice, are under a winter storm warning on Friday afternoon heading into at least Saturday morning, with as much as 30 centimetres of snow anticipated. Environment Canada says the snow in Eastern Newfoundland will be met with high winds, making for a dangerous combination heading into the weekend. St. John's and vicinity can expect between 15 and 30 cm, with winds topping out around 100 km/h around coastal areas. Snowfa
Light snow continued to fall around Lake Tahoe on Thursday, March 23, in one of the snowiest winter seasons the region has ever seen.The UC Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Laboratory, located near Lake Tahoe, recorded 677 inches (56 feet) of snow this season, making it the snowiest one since 1952.More heavy snow is expected next week, according to local news reports, with 2 feet of accumulation possible. Credit: @Son_of_Sandor via Storyful
Prince Edward Islanders can expect to wake up to a significant amount of snow on the ground Friday morning. Environment Canada has issued snowfall warnings for all three P.E.I. counties. The forecast is for 15 centimetres of snow, which puts it just above the snowfall warning criteria The snow is expected to make for poor driving conditions Thursday night. "As we get into the mid to late evening that's when conditions will really start to deteriorate," said CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland. "It wi
