North and South America
Sept 11, 2012 made the history books in the Las Vegas area as it became the wettest Sept day on record as slow moving thunderstorms dropped 1.18 inches of rain in a matter of just a few hours. This caused significant flash flooding to creeks, streams, streets and even homes. Multiple rescues had to be carried […]
After leaving Bermuda waters later Sunday into Monday, Leslie headed north and increased forward speed to 40 mph before slamming ashore near Fortune on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland this morning as a 968mb, 70 mph tropical storm. Leslie pummeled Newfoundland with dangerous storm surge, flooding rains (mainly in the western side of the province) and hurricane-force winds […]
The fire threat across the Western US has continued to grow over the past several weeks and the above chart says it all. Persistently dry conditions, in fact record dry conditions all the way from Coastal Washington and Oregon extending over the continental divide has meant a a mere stray cigarette bud could be enough to start […]
Get Ready Newfoundland.. Leslie Is Speeding Your Way, Could Pack Quite A Punch Tonight Into Tuesday!
Tropical Storm Leslie continues to push off to the NNW at 17 mph with Newfoundland in her sights for an early Tuesday morning landfall. Given her presentation on satellite imagery and the fact that there is warmth surging north on the backside and cool, dry air feeding in from off North America, Leslie could well be already encountering […]
The trough which brought frost and 32F readings to parts of North Dakota this morning and a few days of refreshing 60s and 70s across the Ohio Valley gets replaced by a ridge early this week and so the all too familiar heat and humidity returns to the east. Pretty much all of the US will be back […]
[error] MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF A TORNADO OVER QUEENS, NY THIS AM, WARNINGS EXTENDED TILL AT LEAST 11.30AM ET FOR BROOKLYN & QUEENS NY [/error] IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE FROM BALTIMORE ALL THE WAY UP TO NORTHERN NEW YORK AND VERMONT, BE ALERT TO THE SKIES THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING! While the main line of strong to severe thunderstorms […]
Check out these current temperatures above. Upper 60s in the north while it’s 108 in the south, now that’s what you call a temperature spread and life on the Plains in early fall. This cold front has really cleaned out the air from the Canada-US border all the way down through the Plains and will continue south […]
While a significant trough drives autumnal air down across the Northern Plains, Great Lakes, Midwest and eventually the East Coast, ridging is pumping unusual warmth up the western flank of the continent and in fact we may see highs near 100 in Portland, OR and near 90 in Seattle, WA Saturday afternoon. This will be […]
It’s getting towards that time of year for cooler air starting to make inroads further south, but snow, already? Well for some, we may well see snow across several regions of the Northern Hemisphere next week thanks to several lobes of modified early season cold pools sink south into the mid-latitudes. What first caught my attention was […]
An impressive storm system developed over the Bering Sea about 36 hours ago and during last night brought the system pushed hurricane-force winds onshore across southern Alaska as the central pressure from this winter-like monster plunged to 974 mb. Winds topped 70 to near 90 mph across Anchorage and surrounding hillsides. Power was cut to as […]
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