A weather forecast release by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is calling for a wetter and cooler than normal winter (December through February) in much of the United States due to an El Nino weather pattern.

New York, New Jersey, New England and the Poconos are bracing for a North East storm to dump several inches of rain and wet snow on the coast. Combined with high winds, forecasters say this early nor'easter could cause difficulties.

AccuWeather.com reports a coastal storm formed on Monday night and is spreading a swath of slippery snow across the Carolinas and southeastern Virginia before it departs this evening.

The sun is about to undergo unremitting scrutiny. About six times each minute of every hour for at least five years, a soon-to-be launched NASA satellite will measure the sun's quirky—and sometimes stormy—output of extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light.

US Open Golf - PGA Championship - Early indications Thursday morning are that the thurnderstorms that roared across western Pennsylvania on Wednesday night might have taken some bite out of Oakmont, making greens more receptive and the opportunities for red numbers -- virtually non-existant before the rains - more possible.

In 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season NOAA names 13 to 17 predicted storms.