Weather forecasters have announced that Tropical Storm Danny has formed east of Florida and is rapidly strengthening.
Danny is expected to gain hurricane strength by Friday and is projected to make landfall on Cape Cod by Saturday.

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I got stuck with a weather story on Tuesday at the Boston Globe.
I actually really like writing about the weather, and I love weather maps and statistics and even lightening storms.
But I wasn’t prepared for the response I’d get for a simple story about advection fog rolling over Boston on Tuesday.
There were emails about conspiracy [...]

Brush fires burned throughout New England Friday, including three Eastern Massachusetts communities — Cambridge, Gloucester, and a very large fire in Lexington that required dozens of fire units from across the state for mutual aid.
The Boston Globe reported that a fire broke out along the banks of the Charles River in Cambridge and that 35 [...]

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — Ahead of a potent storm, unseasonably mild air will pour across the eastern-third of the nation Wednesday. Temperatures will soar above typical mid-February highs by 10 to 20 degrees.
Highs today will rise into the 60s as far north as Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Temperatures will even eclipse the 50-degree [...]

State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — All things considered, this has been a brute of a storm, and it’s not over yet. Across northern New England, heavy snow will continue for several hours Wednesday night with total accumulations reaching 12 to 18 inches. The excessive snowfall will spread into Maritime Canada as well.
In Ohio and [...]

State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — A major winter storm with widespread snow and ice is in the process of overspreading the Northeast, and if what has already happened farther west is any indication, this may be one of the more potent systems this winter season.
Tuesday evening through Wednesday, a large area from Indiana [...]

State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — Heavy snow will spread across the Lower Midwest and into the Northeast and mid-Atlantic this week in a two-part system that could give Philadelphia its first significant snowfall.
The first and weaker system will spread lighter snow from the central Plains to the Ohio River Valley tonight. Some snow will [...]

State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — A large swath of snow will stretch across the northern third of the nation later Thursday through this weekend from a fast-moving “clipper” storm. This storm is found in southern areas of British Columbia and Alberta today and will dive southeast bringing a large area of 3 to 6 [...]

The snow is coming to Boston.
A foot of the white stuff could find its way to the ground before the weekend is over in New England, according to the National Weather Service.
A Winter Storm Warning has been declared until 2 a.m. Saturday for all of Southern New England except for Cape Cod and the Massachusetts [...]

Neither rain nor snow nor wind — no, wait, that’s the wrong one.
Ahead of powerful Hurricane Ike, likely to land on the Texas coast this weekend, UPS has closed several of its facilities around Beaumont, Galveston and Houston as mandtory evacuations go into effect.
“Safety is our first priority, and UPS encourages our employees in the [...]