A tsunami warning was issued Thursday for the coast of Oregon and Northern California, according to the National Weather Service’s (NWS) tsunami tracking site. The weather service issued an update around 2:30 p.m. EST saying the tsunami threat had passed, less than an hour after the earthquake hit. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake…

An Arctic cold front will bring intense snow squalls, strong winds and heavy lake-effect snow to parts of the Northeast, meteorologists say.

The term was coined in the 1960s by Rheinhart Harms, a meteorologist at the U.S. National Weather Service Office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin who noted the rapid speed of these snow-producing storms as they moved from Alberta towards the Great Lakes.

The quick, but powerful storm will bring gusty winds to 50 mph and another round of snow to the Great Lakes and Northeast this week.

New York City is forecast to experience a burst of snow this week following some wet weather brought on by an Alberta Clipper storm. A clipper storm, as defined by the National Weather Service, is a fast-moving storm that drops into the U.