Winter
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![‘Winter blues’ season is here: Experts share tips for using a lamp to help with seasonal affective disorder ‘Winter blues’ season is here: Experts share tips for using a lamp to help with seasonal affective disorder](https://s3.amazonaws.com/syndication.abcaudio.com/files/2023-12-19/GETTYRF_121923_Lighttherapylamp.jpg)
Cavan Images/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The “winter blues” season is upon us. As our exposure to daylight decreases over the winter months, millions of Americans suffer each year from the effects of seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, a form of depression that for some can surface like clockwork each year. SAD is defined as […]
Daniela Simona Temneanu / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Holiday lights and the season of cheer may mask the fact that the darkest day of the year is fast approaching on Dec. 21. As the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice approaches, here is everything you need to know about the shortest day of the year for […]
Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The calendar may say it’s autumn, but winter weather has already made an unseasonable appearance for a large swath of the U.S., bringing with it freezing temperatures and measurable snowfall to several regions. A strong cold front is moving across the country, causing temperatures to plummet from […]
NOAA (NEW YORK) — It was a wet and mild winter for most during the 2022-2023 season, with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reporting the average temperature for the contiguous U.S. this winter was 34.9 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 2.7 degrees above average. Winter also saw about 0.90 inches of precipitation above average, which […]
SONGPHOL THESAKIT/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — When the United States saw COVID-19 cases and deaths rise around this past Christmas and New Year’s, many Americans feared the country was in for a third winter wave. But as quickly as both metrics went up, they also came down. Weekly cases and deaths in late winter 2022-23 […]
Normand Blouin / EyeEm/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A strong storm moving through the intermountain West and upper Midwest, with far-reaching impacts to the Gulf of Mexico, will bring blizzard conditions to the North and potential tornadoes in the South. Storms, threatening destructive winds and tornadoes, will develop by noon on Monday from Houston, Texas, […]