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Remember the bitter cold and heavy snow of April? That may seem like a distant memory for Minneapolis and Minnesota now given the ‘sudden summer’ pattern currently underway. Today marks the fourth straight 90-degree day for Minneapolis which ties the longest stretch of consecutive 90s for the month of May. https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/1000775095433023489 Tracy, Minnesota has topped […]
Subtropical storm Alberto has formed in the western Caribbean off the Yucatan and promises to track north towards the US Gulf Coast hammering Memorial Day weekend for beachgoers. Not the best of afternoon’s in Cancun due to the presence of Alberto just off to the east. Pre June 1 development has happened often over the […]
While April was the coldest since 1997 for the US, in the starkest of contrasts, May is going to be the warmest for the US since 1983. While warmest for the nation, May has turned out very wet across Florida and Southeast and this soggy pattern looks likely to continue through much of June. June […]
The memory of the coldest April since 1997 and 3rd coldest since 1979 may be toast given that the first half of May has been warmest on record. Both Iowa and Wisconsin observed their coldest April in at least 124 years while eight other states had their second coldest. Two states also may have observed […]
Following two straight days of severe thunderstorms with embedded derechos, heavy flooding rainfall is the threat throughout the Northeast. https://twitter.com/Accu_Jesse/status/996841615745527808 https://twitter.com/NWSEastern/status/996562515386564609 https://twitter.com/weatherchannel/status/996744075230539777 https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/996784346433511425 https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/996772103465701377 https://twitter.com/NWSEastern/status/996482434270224384 https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/996788961279463425 It’s by no means over either… Deep tropical moisture lifting north out of the Caribbean and colliding with a stalled frontal boundary means heavy, flooding rains. FEATURED IMAGE CREDIT: Tara […]
After scorching the Southwest last week, the first major hot dome of the year slide east bringing a record hot Mother’s Day weekend from Texas to the Carolinas. The Carolinas sweated the most with a near 100-degree afternoon yesterday in Columbia, SC. https://twitter.com/NWSRaleigh/status/995788607251275776 https://twitter.com/NWSColumbia/status/995779995271335937 https://twitter.com/NWSAtlanta/status/995769089703505920 Heat Gives Way To Tropical Rains As we progress into […]
The Desert Southwest has received a very early taste of mid summer level heat with many daily records melting. Not surprisingly, Death Valley has been the hottest spot in North America for the last 4 straight days. A high of 116 is rare for this early. A record 105 degrees set at McCarren Intl Airport, […]
Check out this amazing map below displaying the nearly 9 billion lightning strikes which have hit earth in the last 5 years. The map clearly shows where our lightning hot spots are around the world and where there’s least. Vaisala, a Finland-based maker of weather- and environmental-monitoring equipment, detected 8.76 billion lightning strikes from 2013 […]
No two springs are ever the same, especially on the Plains with one year too wet, another too dry, too hot and this year, too dry and cool. As your probably well aware, the great plains is home to some of the most dramatic, diverse and extreme weather on the planet. Geography and position within […]
While April 2018 was one of the coldest on record for the United States and quite possibly North America as a whole… in the starkest of contrasts, on the other side of the pond, it wasn’t just the warmest April on record for many central countries including Germany but it was the continent’s warmest on […]
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