Another round of wind, rain and snow will impact the Plains and Midwest on Thursday. Gusty winds and blowing snow will reduce visibility so expect travel to be impacted. The precipitation will be all rain initially across the Northeast Thursday afternoon. Rain will then change over to snow across New England Friday morning, while freezing rain could develop across the Poconos. Watch this video to see how much snow is in your forecast.
It’s a terrifying and almost unbelievable view of an avalanche plowing into a train in the Swiss Alps. See what one passenger captured as the massive snow slide happened in St. Nicklaus, near Zermatt, Switzerland. The Swiss government issued its highest avalanche warning after a separate avalanche left five train passengers injured this week. Recent heavy snow and high winds have left the region primed for large avalanches.
The latest disqualifications at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics is turning the race for gold into a global wake-up call about pollution on the world’s biggest stage.
In January 2025, a deep-sea camera captured a sleeper shark cruising 490 meters below the surface in Antarctic waters — the first shark ever recorded this far south. The 10-to-13-foot shark was moving through near-freezing water off the South Shetland Islands, a region experts long believed was too cold for sharks. Researcher Alan Jamieson couldn't find any prior record of a shark in the Antarctic Ocean. The discovery raises questions: Are warming oceans pushing sharks into colder waters, or have they been here unnoticed all along? With so few research cameras operating at these depths and only during summer months, scientists believe there's far more life in Antarctica's deep ocean than we realize. This shark just happened to swim into frame.