Home Weather Page 8

Weather

The Sky This Week: Perseid Meteor Shower Wednesday night

The biggest meteor shower on the year is upon us once again: the Perseids. Every August, the Earth passes through the debris stream of the...

The Sky this Week: Venus and a Ring

Welcome to yet another week of watching the skies! We'll have a few clouds to fight off towards the first of the week but...

The Sky this Week: Seeing double

The Planets This Week: Venus continues to be the highlight of the evening sky shining very brightly in the west. It passed by Mars this...

Watch the Skies: Planetary conjunction

Mars, meet Venus. Venus, this is Mars. If you step outside tonight, you'll be witness to a conjunction of planetary proportions. Venus and Mars have...

The Sky This Week: A red planet and a dumbbell

Another fun week of stargazing is on its way. Though there will be some clouds to fight with by mid and late week both...

The Sky This Week: Our neighbor and a haze in Hercules

Another week of stargazing lies ahead, and there's plenty to talk about this week! First up, a continuation of last week's topic of noctilucent clouds....

The Sky this Week: Space clouds, a guardian and a whirl

The forecast looks clear for much of the week, giving a great chance to get out and do some sky watching! One special thing I...

The sky this week: A Pole and a Glob

It looks like a pretty cloudy week across most of Northeast Georgia, but if any clear night skies do break out a near non-existent...

NOAA predicts another active Atlantic hurricane season

Hurricane season is now officially underway and forecasters predict it will be active. Who could have imagined that living in the North Georgia mountains we'd...

Protect your family and pets from the heat

The mercury's rising, and with it so are the dangers to you and your family. Heat is one of the leading weather-related killers in the...

Tornado confirmed in Lumpkin County

The NWS has confirmed a tornado touched down in southeastern Lumpkin County on Tuesday afternoon. The tornado touched down around 1:21PM near the intersection of...

10 years later: A look back at the deadly tornado outbreak of April 27,...

I remember sitting in class at the University of North Georgia on the morning of April 27, 2011. I couldn't concentrate on the schoolwork. My...