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4 hours ago
- Climate
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Storms could bring damaging winds to Tri-State Area on Saturday. Get the First Alert Weather Day forecast.
Saturday will be a First Alert Weather Day across the Tri-State Area due to the threat of strong to severe thunderstorms. Clouds and well below average temperatures dominated Friday's weather, but a return to more summerlike conditions is on the horizon. Friday night, a few showers are possible, especially towards dawn. Otherwise, clouds will remain in place, while lows drop into the mid and upper 60s. Maps show severe thunderstorm risk this weekend Some lingering showers are likely for Saturday morning, before the sun returns by the afternoon. CBS News New York During that period of sunshine, temperatures will rise significantly, reaching the mid to upper 80s, along with tropical levels of humidity surging back in. Besides elevating temperatures, the sun will also assist in destabilizing the atmosphere. CBS News New York This in turn will lead to the chance of strong to severe thunderstorms from the late afternoon through the late evening hours. Hazards associated with these storms would be damaging winds, torrential downpours and hail. Of greatest concern would be the threat of damaging winds. CBS News New York Storms should be out of the region by around 11 p.m. In their wake, humidity levels will decrease, setting us up for a sunny and warm Sunday, with highs in the mid to upper 80s.
Yahoo
5 hours ago
- Science
- Yahoo
What is a fireball, and how often does rare event occur? See known SC meteorites
The American Meteor Society received over 160 reports in the Southeast − including South Carolina and Georgia − of a fiery object streaking through the skies on June 26. The object, identified later on as a fireball, "exploded 27 miles above West Forest, Georgia, unleashing an energy of about 20 tons of TNT," according to CBS News. Bill Cooke, a lead at NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office, confirmed the fireball, observed before 12:30 p.m., was 3 feet in diameter, weighing more than a ton. No injuries have been reported due to the fireball, although a home in Henry County, Georgia, was struck by debris suspected to be related to the meteor. Here's the difference between a fireball and meteor. Per FossilEra, a meteor is often called a "shooting star" or "falling star" since they appear as a streak of light, produced when a meteoroid enters Earth's atmosphere and vaporizes due to the intense heat caused by friction with air. A meteor is a visible atmospheric phenomenon that results from the meteor's swift entry and disintegration, meaning it is not a physical object. A fireball is a meteor that is significantly brighter than normal meteors, outshining planet Venus. Ground-level rumbles known as sonic booms occur when a fireball explodes, according to EBSCO. Only a small number of meteors that enter the Earth's atmosphere are classified as fireballs. Each day, several thousand meteors of fireball magnitude occur in the Earth's atmosphere, and the majority of them are difficult to observe since they take place over the oceans and uninhabited regions, with many masked by daylight, per the American Meteor Society. Fireballs that occur at night have less of a chance of being seen because there aren't as many people outside to notice them. "Additionally, the brighter the fireball, the more rare is the event. As a general thumb rule, there are only about 1/3 as many fireballs present for each successfully brighter magnitude class, following an exponential decrease." said the American Meteor Society. "Experienced observers can expect to see only about 1 fireball of magnitude -6 or better for every 200 hours of meteor observing, while a fireball magnitude -4 can be expected about once every 20 hours or so." Meteorites are fragments of space rocks like asteroids or comets that survive passing through Earth's atmosphere, landing on the surface. Before entering the atmosphere, they are called meteoroids, and can vary in size from tiny dust grains to large asteroids. The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources listed the following records regarding meteorite occurrence within the state on their website: 1843: Achondrite, Bishopville 1844: Octahedrite, Ruff's Mountain, Newberry County 1849: Ataxite, Chesterville 1857: Octahedrite, Laurens County 1880: Octahedrite, Lexington County 1933: Chondrite, Cherokee Springs The Greenville News reached out to NASA for a comment for this story, but did not receive a response. Nina Tran covers trending topics for The Greenville News. Reach her via email at ntran@ This article originally appeared on Greenville News: Fireball and meteor: The difference, how to tell them apart
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6 hours ago
- CBS News
Detroit police investigate shooting near park on city's east side
The Detroit Police Department says it is responding to a shooting Friday evening on the city's east side. The shooting happened at Morang Avenue and Duchess Street near the Skinner Playfield. DPD did not provide any further details at this time. This story is developing. Stay with CBS News Detroit as more information becomes available.
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7 hours ago
- CBS News
New Jersey teen who got stuck in Israel amid war with Iran finally returns home
New Jersey teen finally back home after getting stuck in Israel during war with Iran New Jersey teen finally back home after getting stuck in Israel during war with Iran New Jersey teen finally back home after getting stuck in Israel during war with Iran A New Jersey teen who was stuck in Israel as it exchanged missile strikes with Iran is finally back home. Abigail Inglis, 17, was living on a campus outside Tel Aviv as part of a two-month semester abroad program, but once war broke out, it was a week of trying to get home to Bergenfield. "I was like, I'm literally never leaving" Abigail was supposed to return to New Jersey on June 18. Instead, she was sending text messages to her worried mother reading "heavy missiles [right now]" and "in shelter." She showed CBS News New York's Jenna DeAngelis videos she captured of missiles overhead in the night sky. "It was definitely very, like, scary, but this was happening every night, multiple times a night," Abigail said. It became so frequent, she and her classmates slept in the shelter for a week. "These were the sirens we would hear every night that was basically telling us get to the shelter now," Abigail said, playing another video. At one point, the group had plans to leave on a flight out of the country, but it was canceled a short time later, Abigail says. "I actually texted my mom and I was like, I'm literally never leaving," she said. "It was, like, the best experience of my life" Hours later, Abigail was awakened from her sleep and rushed onto a boat to Cyprus to begin the long journey back to the United States. "Everyone was just, like, trying to get on as fast as they could and leave. It was very intense, and it was 16 hours," she said. "And then we finally got a flight from Cyprus to Athens, and then Athens to JFK ... I couldn't wait to get my bag at JFK and just go out those doors to see my family." "Not until she landed at JFK and I saw her and I grabbed her did I realize that, like, she was really back," mom Jocelyn Inglis said. Abigail returned home with an Israeli flag signed by all her new friends from the semester abroad program. She plans to hang it up in her room. "It was, like, the best experience of my life. Through everything that happened at the end, it didn't change my love for Israel," she said. "Anytime I could, I would love to go back."
Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Politics
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Trump says he would 'absolutely' consider bombing Iran again
US President Donald Trump has said he would "absolutely" consider bombing Iran again. Responding to a question from the BBC's Nomia Iqbal at a White House press briefing, he said he would "without question" attack the country if intelligence concluded Iran could enrich uranium to concerning levels. The US became directly involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran last weekend, striking key nuclear sites with "bunker buster" bombs before Trump rapidly sought a ceasefire. In a speech on Thursday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the strikes had achieved nothing significant, but on Friday Trump repeated his claim that the country's nuclear sites had been "obliterated". Iranian foreign minister admits serious damage to nuclear sites How a volatile 24 hours edged Iran and Israel to a ceasefire US gained nothing from strikes, Iran's supreme leader says Posting on his social media platform Truth Social later on Friday, Trump said he knew "EXACTLY" where the ayatollah had been sheltering and that he had personally stopped Israeli and US armed forces from targeting him. It is understood the Iranian leader was forced into hiding during his country's two-week war with Israel. All parties in the conflict have claimed victory, with the ayatollah telling Iranians that Israel and Iran had failed to disrupt the country's nuclear programme. However, the country's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi later admitted "excessive and serious" damage was done to the country's nuclear sites by the recent US and Israeli bombings. Reacting to the ayatollah's comments, Trump repeated his assertions that Iran was "decimated". "Why would the so-called 'Supreme Leader' Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, of the war-torn country of Iran, say so blatantly and foolishly that he won the war with Israel, when he knows his statement is a lie," Trump added. Trump claimed he had been "working on the possible removal of sanctions" against Iran, but had decided to "immediately" drop all work on sanction relief after the ayatollah released his statement of "anger, hatred and disgust". Iran has always insisted its nuclear programme is only intended for civilian purposes. The latest conflict between Israel and Iran started when Israel launched attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and military infrastructure, with a number of nuclear scientists and military commanders killed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that "if not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time". CBS News, the BBC's US partner, reported the White House had been considering a range of options to entice Iran back to the negotiating table, including facilitating funding for a civilian, non-enrichment, nuclear programme. But Iran has denied it is set to resume nuclear talks with the US, after Trump said at a Nato summit in the Hague on Wednesday that negotiations were set to begin again next week. Iran's health ministry said 610 people were killed during the 12 days of air attacks, while Israeli authorities said 28 were killed in Israel.
