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Often at this time of year when summer draws to a close, we look thousands of miles out across the Pacific and when there’s typhoons roaming the western basin, US meteorologists pay attention. With the help of a due west track of once Super Typhoon Meranti, summer lives on across the Eastern US and this warm pattern […]
September 2016 has hosted two separate record breakers. To start the month, Hurricane Hermine made landfall ending a record 11 year hurricane drought for Florida. Today saw the formation of Tropical Storm Julia, the first system in recorded history to be named while over Florida. This thing will bring a multiday heavy, flooding rain and […]
It’s been a dry, long and hot summer for a large portion of the Lower 48, so much so that it’s been a top 5 hottest nationally and for some 45 US cities it’s been the warmest on record, especially to the east of the Mississippi River. The below graphics say it all! The relentless heat […]
We have a lot of weather going on right now. It’s questionable whether Newton crept over the Mexico-US border as a storm or depression but regardless, it’s making it’s presence felt while with flooding rains. From weather.com Newton spread heavy rain over parts of Arizona and New Mexico for much of Wednesday, but by Thursday morning, […]
While we have autumn snows affecting the Northern Rockies we have summer heat in the Southeast. Both the Northeast and Southwest have tropical troubles. Hermine continues to batter the coastal Northeast, mainly with gales, pounding surge which continues to cause beach erosion and rip currents. Inland areas are much more tranquil. Meanwhile in the Pacific, the Baja is under a hurricane threat. […]
Hurricane Hermine made landfall overnight just east of St Mark’s, FL as an 80 mph storm. This was Florida’s first in a record 11 year stretch of hurricane drought. While Hermine may have only been a Category 1, this system packed a punch producing significant storm surge flooding and damage along the coast and created […]
Today marks the first day of meteorological fall 2016. Many millions from St Louis to Atlantic City will remember this summer as a long hot and uncomfortably sticky one. For those in the South, it’s been soggy too. Unfortunately for the non heat lover, it looks like it’s going to remain on the warm humid side […]
Once 99L and a system which looked to be goner not far SE of Florida has managed to make it into the southern Gulf and ignite into Tropical Storm Hermine. Hermine threatens Florida as a strong tropical storm or hurricane but first caught our attention over 2 weeks ago as a large wave crossing equatorial Africa. Whether a strong […]
We’re on the verge of closing the books on summer 2016 and it should be of no surprise that many cities from Miami to Bangor will have endured a top 5 hot summer. The dry spring and first half to summer lay the ground work for a hot July and August in the East. The record […]
It’s been a while since the Atlantic has been as active as this. Tropical Depression 8 TROPICAL DEPRESSION EIGHT DISCUSSION NUMBER 2 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL082016 500 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 2016 The low-level center of the depression is now exposed, with the deep convection diminishing and displaced to the northwest […]
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