The top weather headlines for Nov. 3

AccuWeather's Kevin Coskren breaks down the top weather headlines for Nov. 3.

Transcript

00:00 Good morning, guys, and happy Friday.

00:04 Unfortunately, it's not a happy Friday across the pond.

00:07 Storm Kieran has brought hurricane-strength winds to France, the Channel Islands and southern

00:12 England, leaving more than a million people without access to electricity and forcing

00:16 hundreds of schools to close.

00:18 The storm has claimed at least four lives, two in France and another two in Belgium.

00:23 Meanwhile, don't let this cold start to November fool you.

00:26 The climate is still in a warming phase.

00:29 The scientist who sounded the global warming alarm back in the 1980s is saying the Earth

00:33 is warming even faster than he predicted.

00:36 A new report published in the journal called "Oxford Open Climate Change" says we are in

00:41 the early phase of a climate emergency.

00:44 And finally, we take you under the sea to a place where starfish roam the ocean floor.

00:48 When you think of a starfish, you probably think of it having a body in the middle and

00:52 five legs protruding from that body.

00:54 Well, new genetic research is telling us that what we thought was the starfish's body is

00:59 actually the starfish's head.

01:01 OK, look, we understand this story is hard to, shall we say, wrap your head around, but

01:07 it gets even weirder.

01:09 Scientists say this new revelation could help answer some of the biggest remaining questions

01:13 about starfish, including their shared ancestry with humans and other animals that look nothing

01:19 like them.

01:20 All right, guys, it's Friday, and that means it's time to see what our AccuWeather social

01:24 media followers are talking about this morning in our current Weather Take Poll.

01:28 Do you prefer daylight saving time or standard time?

01:32 The results right now are 53 percent for standard and 47 percent for daylight.

01:38 We are in daylight time now, and we'll fall back to standard time this weekend.

01:43 You can cast your vote.

01:44 Head over to the AccuWeather Facebook or X pages to join in the fun.

01:48 OK, guys, what say you?

01:50 Standard time or daylight time?

01:52 Standard.

01:53 Really?

01:54 I was going to say daylight.

01:55 I'd just rather it's not changed to clocks.

01:57 Now that I'm a parent.

01:58 That's true.

01:59 I'd rather it's not changed to clocks, but I do like the earlier start to the day.

02:03 Very true.

02:04 Yeah.

02:05 All right.

02:06 You want to see more fun weather takes, be sure to follow AccuWeather on Facebook and

02:08 X, formerly Twitter, to join in our weekly polls.