AccuWeather senior meteorologist Joe Lundberg discussed the weather forecast, predicting fabulous days today and tomorrow with temperatures in the low 60s, followed by cloudy conditions and potential showers. He noted a warming trend starting Tuesday, with June expected to feel more like June. May’s rainfall is significantly above average, with nearly six inches already recorded and a potential additional inch and a half by Saturday. Lundberg attributed the excessive rainfall to stratospheric warming disrupting the jet stream and bringing cool air masses. He expects fewer weather disruptions in the coming weeks.
Days of downpours have begun in Hawaii. The Southwest will soon bake with day after day of record 100-degree-plus (38 Celsius-plus) heat. Two storms will dump snow by the foot over northern Great Lakes states. And the dreaded polar vortex will again invade the Midwest and East with soul-crushing Arctic chill. This forecast of extremes comes as weather whiplash has already hit much of the East.
An inflation gauge closely monitored by the Federal Reserve moved higher in January in the latest sign that prices were persistently elevated even before the Iran war caused spikes in oil and gas costs.
A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday.
House lawmakers were digging into Jeffrey Epstein's sprawling financial portfolio on Wednesday as a committee deposed his former accountant and tried to understand his connections to some of the world's wealthiest men.
