The Space Weather Prediction Center offered an optimistic forecast for the Northern Lights, saying a geomagnetic storm could produce an aurora borealis that may stretch above Upstate New York on Tuesday, March 4.
A 35-foot humpback whale, weighing about 32 tons, washed ashore on a New York beach on Monday. The massive mammal was discovered in the early morning hours along Lido Beach, on the southern shores of Nassau County. Along with the sadness of one of these giants of the ocean dying, is the concern that this is the 10th such beaching on Long Island in 2 months.