The Daily Weather Update from FOX Weather: Dangerous ice storm to impact travel from Chicago to Boston
Top weather news for Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025: A developing winter storm could bring a potentially crippling ice threat from the Midwest to the Northeast, and the West Coast remains on alert for flooding as a series of atmospheric river storms swamps the region.
Weather in America: February 4, 2025
FOX Weather has you covered with the breaking forecasts and weather news headlines for your Weather in America on Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Get the latest from FOX Weather Meteorologist Britta Merwin.
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Dangerous ice storm threatens millions from Chicago to Boston
Millions of people from the Midwest to the Northeast are on alert as a developing winter storm is expected to bring a potentially crippling ice threat that could knock out power and lead to treacherous travel conditions across the region.
The storm is expected to develop in the Plains on Wednesday and move into the Great Lakes region by Wednesday night. Warm air is expected to move in above a shallow layer of subfreezing air near the ground, and that will lead to a swath of impactful freezing rain that will fall from Iowa to New England.
Winter weather alerts are in effect from the Midwest to the Northeast, and the Thursday morning commute from Chicago to Boston could be extremely treacherous.
This graphic shows the ice threat from the Midwest to the Northeast on Wednesday, Feb. 5 and Thursday, Feb. 6.
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Flooding rain, mountain snow from atmospheric river storm slams West Coast
The West Coast has been getting slammed by a series of atmospheric river storms, and more precipitation is on the way.
Following heavy snow in Oregon and a few reports of flooding in far Northern California, the FOX Forecast Center said a resurgence in moisture will expand the rain and mountain snow once again across California on Tuesday.
The FOX Forecast Center said the plume of moisture will briefly stall across Northern California on Tuesday, and rainfall rates could approach a half-inch per hour, which will raise the flood threat.
This graphic shows the rain and snow forecast in California through Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025.
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Earthquake swarm sews fear on Greece island of Santorini
Another swarm of earthquakes shook the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea on Tuesday morning, including the popular tourist destination of Santorini, officially known as Thira.
Tuesday morning's quakes included two magnitude 5.1 earthquakes centered in the Aegean Sea north of Santorini.
Greek officials are warning those on Santorini to stay alert in the coming days due to increasing seismic activity, which could mean a strong earthquake is imminent.
A member of Greece's firefighting service stands amongst tents set up on a basketball court for incoming rescue personnel in Fira, on the Greek Island of Santorini on February 3, 2025. Fresh overnight tremors shook Greece's top tourist island Santorini, media reports said, prompting people to sleep outdoors and others to leave by plane or ferry. Over 200 minor earthquakes were recorded at sea or on surrounding islands, with the strongest -- of magnitude 4.6 -- striking the waters between Santorini and Amorgos on Sunday afternoon. (Photo by Aris MESSINIS / AFP) (Photo by ARIS MESSINIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Watch: Endangered male frogs 'give birth' to 33 froglets after 7,000-mile journey
After a 7,000-mile journey to London in October, 33 tiny Darwin's frogs were born recently at the London Zoo.
The froglets were carried in the vocal sacs of 11 male Darwin's frogs, the zoo said. Darwin's frogs are endangered due to a deadly fungus called chytrid that invades their homes in the forests of southern Chile and kills the frogs.
Researchers and conservationists from the London Zoo and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) traveled to Chile to rescue the frogs and bring them to the London Zoo in an attempt to rescue the species.
Endangered male frogs 'give birth' to 33 froglets after 7,000-mile journey to London
The tiny froglets are carried in the vocal sacs of male Darwin's frogs until they're metamorphosed. A deadly fungus is causing the frog species to near extinction, prompting the frogs' relocation to London.
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