USA Weather Alerts

AccuWeather Jul 4, 2026 @ 2:21 PM EDT   From lightning to a double rainbow, the sky put on an incredible show over Lady Liberty https://www.facebook.com/20531316728/posts/10154009990506729/

LIGHTNING, A RAINBOW, AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY… ALL IN ONE MOMENT It doesn’t get much more incredible than this. One perfectly timed moment over New York City brought together a lightning strike, a rainbow, and one of the world’s most recognizable landmarks. 📍 New York, New York 📸 Photo by Misty Kepler #MrMBB333 #NewYork https://x.com/mrmbb333/status/2073655893288485089

AccuWeather Jul 5, 2026 @ 9:45 AM EDT Lightning strikes as fireworks from the Freedom 250 Salute to America Independence Day celebration go off in Washington, D.C.. https://x.com/accuweather/status/2073765130366791751

Jul 2, 2026 🌪️ Girl survives rabid bat attack after receiving lifesaving treatment The girl is recovering after receiving rabies shots, as health experts warn the virus is almost always fatal once symptoms develop.

So fireworks have either been straight up canceled or delayed pretty much everywhere in the Northeast. Just look at the thumbnail picture of this map. Everything in red is under severe weather right now. https://www.youtube.com/live/-zDDym9Y_J8

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Posted by @foxnews on Instagram The deadly record-breaking heat wave in Europe is so intense that it's melting roads and shutting down public transit. Officials in Leipzig, Germany suspended the city's entire tram system after extreme temperatures softened asphalt and bitumen, clogging tracks and making it unsafe for trams to operate. https://www.instagram.com/p/DaK82yaEodn/

Real-Time Tracking: If you want to see strikes as they happen, check out LightningMaps.org to watch live global and regional lightning data plotted in near real-time. Strokes of the last 60 minutes are shown. The real-time data comes directly from the computing servers of Blitzortung.org, which are fed by hundreds of stations on several continents. The delay is calculated from the time stamps of each strokes compared to the current time. Legend: • New lightning strikes have a red circle which gets smaller and disappears when it gets older than 60 seconds. • The color of filled circles represent the age of strikes up to 60 minutes. New strikes are yellow. The older they get, the darker the color. Dark brown is equal to almost 60 minutes. Those strikes will vanish soon. • On higher zoom levels the thunder front of current strikes is shown as white transparent growing circle (speed of sound). It gets more transparent while traveling and disappears after a while. IMPORTANT: This map is intended for entertainment purposes only!

Now I understand why our visitors to the United States for the World Cup 2026 are freaking out about our lightning storms. ⚡️ Interactive Global Lightning Density Map

🌩 Interactive Global Lightning Density Map An interactive tool to explore lightning density globally The map shows average lightning density values around the world using data reported by Vaisala’s lightning detection networks: GLD360 global lightning detection network and U.S. National Lightning Detection Network NLDN. They provide excellent coverage across all oceans and continents, and between 2016 and 2022, detected over 14 billion lightning events, which include both cloud-to-ground strokes and in-cloud pulses.  You can interact with the map by hovering over a specific area to see the average number of lightning events per km² per year. Zoom in to see your area of interest down to the state or county level. Expand the legend and select the density contour layer to see a simplified version of gridded lightning density data. New 3D globe view The updated map now uses the Mapbox Globe view as the default view, improving the projections of each country. This globe view wraps the lightning density data around a sphere and gives a three-dimensional feel to the map. To see the density data for the entire world at once, simply click the “2D” icon in the top right to see a Web Mercator projection of the map. How to use • Pan and hover over an area to see its lightning density. Zoom in to see data by state or province, and by county in the United States. • Expand the legend to switch map layers, change colors, or hide values. • Choose between the 3D globe view or a 2D projection by selecting the appropriate icon.

🚀 A New Look at Earth’s Lightning Released September 23, 2024 Map of lightning frequency showing Lake Maracaibo in northern Venezuela and Lake Kivu between Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo are the places with the most lightning. This map draws on observations from multiple sensors—the ISS LIS, the TRMM LIS, and OTD. The TRMM LIS collected data between 1997 and 2015; OTD was operational between 1995 and 2000; and ISS LIS has been flying since 2017. Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory and the University of Alabama-Huntsville published an updated map in March 2021. Researchers from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center released a similar map of lightning activity, based on three years of ISS LIS observations, in July 2020.

Stay safe everyone https://www.youtube.com/live/XIdRMQXogdU

Jun 4, 2026 • North Carolina 🌪️ Outer Banks home collapses into ocean for first time in months More than 30 unoccupied homes have fallen victim to erosion and coastal storms since 2020, according to the National Park Service’s Cape Hatteras National Seashore. Tuesday’s collapse was the first since February.

Jun 7, 2026 🌪️ Powerful 7.8 earthquake rocks southern Philippines; no tsunami threat to U.S. Pacific Coast There was no tsunami warning, advisory, watch or threat in effect for the U.S. Pacific Coast or Hawaii, according to the U.S. Tsunami Warning Center. A tsunami advisory was issued for parts of Guam.

June 4, 2026 🌪️ Shelf cloud looks like a 'tsunami' sweeping over Ohio This ominous shelf cloud was spotted forming over Cincinnati, Ohio, and one local resident described the cloud appearing like "tsunami" sweeping across the horizon.

🌕Full Moon (Blue Mead) The full moon closest to the Summer Solstice (for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere) is known as the Mead Moon. In ancient traditions, drinking mead under the 'Mead Moon' would promote healing, fertility and prosperity throughout the year. So let's crack open a bottle of honey wine! Of course we'll be drinking blue mead because when you've got two full moons in a single calendar month, the second one is a 'blue moon'...

If you wanna add the equinox’s, the phases of the moon, and when mercury goes into retrograde to your Apple calendar, just click on the link below, and then click on the button that says “CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE.” https://cantonbecker.com/astronomy-calendar/

🌪️ Multiple Waymos drive into Atlanta floodwaters, marking second incident in a month For the second time in a month, a Waymo robotaxi had to be pulled from floodwaters, this time in Atlanta, Georgia.

🌪️ Los Angeles 4-year-old girl found dead in hot car The child mark’s the third hot car death this year, according to Kids and Car Safety.