Massive Tidal Waves In Spain Are Washing People Away
Huge surging waves nearly forty feet high off the coast of Northern Spain have been crashing onto land and washing people out to sea.
As many as 800,000 customers are without power from Maryland to Connecticut as a major ice storm bears down on the mid-Atlantic.
Antiviral: Here Is What's Bullshit on the Internet This Week
Antiviral is an occasional column in which we run down the worst hoaxes, pranks, Photoshops and straight-out lies blowing up on the internet.
Officials say 17 towns in California could run out of water in the next 2-4 months, thanks to endless drought. Does it seem like the weather's been kind of... I don't know... extreme lately? Maybe it's just our imaginations.
āHere's a Weather Reporter Kneeing Some Guy in the Balls
Some friendly advice: Do not interrupt The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore during a live broadcast.
Scant Snowfall Brings Southern United States to the Brink of Chaos
Snowy, icy, windy conditions rarely seen in Dixieland blew semis off roads, stranded commuters and schoolkids, and sent Southerners from Tuscaloosa to Tallahassee to Biloxi to Brunswick scurrying to hunker down for a cold, confusing Wednesday.
[Ice forms as waves crash along the Lake Michigan shore on Monday in Chicago. Below-zero highs have returned to many parts of the Midwest, bringing wind chills ranging from the negative teens to 40s, school cancellations and sighs of resignation from residents who are weary of bundling up. Image via Kiichiro Sato/AP.]
Bundle up, folks: Polar Vortex Part II is coming, and itās going to last for a week or more. Hopefully weāll see fewer frozen pee/boiling water fails this time around.
As California Burns, Hot Dry Weather Predicted For Entirety of "Winter"
Here's some terrible news to mark the beginning of permanent fire season in California: It's going to stay like this, hot and dry, until May. The Climate Prediction Center says winter will come and go without the usual winter storms that provide the snowpack that provides all the water people use. Fire conditions willā¦
Show Us Your Best Foggy New York Photos
[Fog engulfed much of New York City this morning. What did it look like out your window? Photo via @nymetwowx/Twitter.]
Snowy Owls Leave Arctic To Invade Frozen America
In normal times, the arctic bird of prey known as the Snowy Owl stays up north, feasting upon the flesh of lemmings. But these are not normal times, so the owls have come south with the terrible arctic weather. "They are just absolutely everywhere and there's a lot more coming," says an expert who knows about the owls.
NASA Satellite Photo Proves We're All Frigid and Screwed
The vortexpocalypse continues apace. Take the animals two-by-two and stock up on Sterno and shotgun shells.
I Am in the Polar Vortex. Here's What to Expect.
Greetings from the Polar Vortex! No, that's not the name of your favorite new dubstep band. It's the terrifying swirl of arctic winter currently occupying the Midwest and poised to consume the rest of you poor bastards.
Appreciate This Beautiful Freezing Snow Nightmare While You Can
It seems there's a bit of inclement weather on the East Coast, and also around the Great Lakes and the Midwest and (who knows?) maybe even Texas and the South. Please enjoy your blizzards and Winter Wonderland, because snow and cold are beautiful things, and one day you can tell your starving children livingā¦
Travel Is For the Birds: Let's All Just Stay Put This Christmas
Thousands of canceled flights and endless dreary delays awaited Americans who attempted to travel by passenger jet during this never-ending arctic monster storm, proving once again that none of us have any common sense at all. Why do we bother? Because we have been brainwashed to accept daylong episodes ofā¦
[Sad evidence of the dreadful New York weather is seen in this Yonkers Police Department photograph of an early morning pileup of SUVs, at least one taxi cab and a light pole. Photo via Associated Press.]
[Freezing cold temperatures gripping much of the U.S. today led some to call it "Ice Friday." But while the weather made for a pretty map, it's also been blamed for nine deaths so far. Be safe out there. Image via Business Insider]
A Chilly Apocalypse: How California Is Surviving the "Cold Snap"
From the Rocky Mountains to the East Coast, America is struggling with ice storms and blizzards and general misery. The winter weather has been especially tough on Californians. Many of us don't own gloves, or forgot where we put them several years ago after we got home from Mammoth or Tahoe. Few of us have thoseā¦
