Rishav Kothari is Editor-in-Chief of The Watchers, where he runs the newsroom and covers earthquakes, volcanoes, severe weather and space weather.
Over 1 000 people have died and hundreds remain missing on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, after rare Tropical Cyclone Senyar brought severe flooding and landslides across Indonesia, Thailand, and Malaysia.
At least 355 people were confirmed dead, and 366 remain missing as of December 1, 2025, after Cyclone Ditwah brought days of intense rainfall across Sri Lanka, producing severe flooding and landslides in multiple districts.
The National Weather Service has issued widespread winter weather advisories across the northern Rockies, Great Plains, Midwest, and eastern United States, with snow, blowing snow, and ice expected through Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
The first nor’easter of the season is forecast to rapidly intensify by Wednesday, December 3, 2025, bringing 25–38 cm (10–15 inches) of snow, violent winds, and whiteout conditions across parts of the U.S. Northeast and Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, Canada.
A post-Thanksgiving winter storm dropped record snow in St. Louis and parts of the Midwest on Saturday, November 29, 2025, causing a Delta flight to slide off the runway in Des Moines and triggering hundreds of crashes and multi-vehicle pileups on major interstate highways, including I-70 and I-80.
An early December winter storm could drop over 15 cm (6 inches) of snow across the interior Northeast, including areas north and west of I-95, after it develops over the Gulf Coast on Monday, December 1, 2025. The heavy snow and possible icing will make travel dangerous across the affected regions.
A new mosaic from the GREGOR solar telescope shows the last 30 minutes before a major solar flare, displaying how twisted magnetic filaments and sunspot rotation stressed the solars magnetic field until it released an X1.2 eruption.
Gaylord, Michigan, saw its heaviest Thanksgiving Day snow on record, as the powerful winter storm brought lake-effect snow across the region on Thursday, November 27, 2025.
A powerful post-Thanksgiving winter storm is spreading across the Midwest and northern Plains on Friday, November 28, 2025, prompting widespread winter storm warnings and advisories from eastern Nebraska and Iowa through southern Minnesota and Wisconsin.
At least one fatality has been reported after a fatal multi-vehicle crash along the I-43 near Saukville, Wisconsin on November 26, 2025 as the Thanksgiving winter storm created dangerous travel conditions.
