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Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletterto get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists.​ It turns out, raking leaves isn’t the best for the environment. In recent years, environmentalists have made a push for homeowners to leave autumn leaves in their yard rather than raking and removing them. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, during peak times like summer and fall, yard waste of municipal solid waste. Leaves and yard waste don’t properly decompose in...

What's your favorite thing about fall? Here’s what some of our fans had to say, along with a few weather facts about what is for many the favorite season of the year. “We love camping in the fall. The wonderful state parks in MI are less crowded and the leaves are beautiful as they begin to change. Autumn campfires are the best!” - Amy Martinie Amy nailed what so many others told us. Fall is all about color. Leaf peeping...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletterto get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Fall has arrived. The leaves are changing, the air is getting crisp and we are finally saying goodbye to summer heat. There’s a mood to fall that makes us think of , sweaters and murder mysteries. That’s why myself and several of my fellow book nerds on the weather.com staff put together a list of great reads if you're looking to get...

Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletterto get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. Giant pumpkins. Cozy flannels. Hot apple cider. Leaves crunching underfoot in the cool, crisp mornings. Corn mazes. The pleasure of making a passed-down soup recipe once again. Geese overhead, honking as they fly south. Harvest. Sweater weather. Fall is here, and for many of us, the season brings with it a whole new way of experiencing the world we inhabit. As our...

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New federal energy efficiency regulations go into effect this week banning the sale and manufacture of any light bulbs that don’t meet the minimum standards of 45 lumens per watt. It means most lights available now will be LED. ...

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Sign up for the Morning Brief email newsletterto get weekday updates from The Weather Channel and our meteorologists. A Minnesota horticulture teacher set a world record in California on Monday for the heaviest pumpkin after growing a giant jack-o'-lantern gourd weighing 2,749 pounds. Travis Gienger of Anoka, Minnesota, won the 50th World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California, with an enormous, lumpy, orange pumpkin that could produce at least 687 pies. "I was not expecting that. It was...