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By Sean Breslin At a Glance With 35 confirmed deaths in Northern California, this has been the deadliest week of wildfires in state history. Officials say roughly 5,700 homes and businesses have been destroyed and nearly 400 people are still missing. At least 9,000 firefighters are working to control these blazes. At least 35 people have […]
It’s an October which shall be remembered for two H words. Heat and hurricanes and I guess snow in Montana and coldest for Rockies! It appears that the remainder of the month shall stay warmer than normal and this suggests that October 2017 could wind up one of the country’s warmest east of the Mississippi. […]
By Brian Donegan weather.com At a Glance Well-above-average temperatures will continue to dominate parts of the Midwest and East the next several days. Highs will reach the 70s and 80s in many locations, making it feel more like August than October. Dozens of locations are experiencing a top-five warmest October through this point in the month. […]
California has a long dark history of destructive and devastating wildfires but the Tubbs firestorm of October 2017 will likely go down as one of the state’s worst. The scenes coming out of Santa Rosa in the Wine Country NE of San Francisco resembled those of the state’s worst fire disaster, the Oakland Hills Fire […]
Hurricane Nate made it’s first landfall near the mouth of the Mississippi River, LA at 7pm ET Saturday night and later made a 2nd landfall near Biloxi, MS at 12.30am Sunday. Both landfalls were Category 1 with 85 mph winds. Nate weakened slightly prior to landfall due to land interaction, dry air and cooler waters from it’s peak intensity […]
The 7th hurricane of 2017 and Nate is destined to be the United States 3rd hurricane landfall of 2017. Droughts often end with a flood right? Once clear of competing forces in the Caribbean and land interaction, Nate has organised and strengthened quickly over the open Gulf of Mexico posing a significant threat on the US Gulf Coast tonight. […]
An unusually trough for early October dove into the Northern Rockies earlier in the week and has delivered a record breaking snowstorm to Montana. With upwards of 30 inches falling near Havre, this is the state’s largest snowstorm on record for this early and with trees still in leaf, widespread severe damage has occurred. In […]
As expected, TD 16 has been spawned from a Central American gyre. This looks to be trouble for not just Central America where rainfall will be prolific but also for the US. Modelling points to a hurricane landfall along the Gulf Coast somewhere between Louisiana and Florida this weekend. TS warnings up for Central America […]
We’re opening October 2017 on an extreme note with a heavy early season snowstorm for Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado while summer is making a comeback further east. An impressive thermal gradient with 20-25 below to the west and 20-25 above to the east… The depth of trough and cold within sure is impressive for […]
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