When Storms Threaten Lives, Words Matter
News outlets have to follow a certain narrative in order to cover certain news events. The necessity of driving traffic to rake in advertising money often outweighs the urge to accidentally commit journalism, requiring the development of a sort of prefab…
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Typical! Self-Absorbed Millennials Don’t Remember This Thunderstorm From March 1996
We all know that one special millennial who’s so wrapped up in their overwhelming magnificence that they can’t stop to marvel at the world that revolves around them. One of the greater tragedies of this generation that failed us (because…
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Top Ten Warmest Novembers in the Future, Ranked
If you live east of the Rocky Mountains, you don’t need me to tell you that it was a warm November. Frankly, it’s been a warm fall overall, and with the way things are going, we could have a similar conversation come the end of December.…
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Now That’s What I Call a Cold Front
Some cold fronts sweep through virtually unnoticed. Others crash through with the ugly blow of someone ripping the covers off of you in the morning. That is to say, rude. Winds swirling around a low pressure system up near the Arctic Circle and a broad…
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Major Hurricane Sandra Breaks Two More Records, Ocean Just Showing Off Now
Hurricane Sandra became a major hurricane today—as I figured it would, but who’s keeping score—packing winds of 115 MPH at the 2:00 PM MST advisory. The storm broke the record for the strongest hurricane we’ve ever seen so late in the year in…
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Late-Season Hurricane to Help Bring Snow and Ice to Central Plains Because Weather Is Awesome Like That
Tropical Storm Sandra, a stout and mighty gale blown about a low fomenting several hundred miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico, is the latest tropical storm to form in the eastern Pacific basin since Tropical Storm Winnie popped up in early December 1983.…
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Winter Storm Skittlebip IV Promises Many Inches of White Doom to the Midwest
Many have asked what Skittlebip means. The legend of Skittlebip is that its legend is never fully formed. It is an ever-lasting and frequently evolving storm, a skittleblip on the continuum of time and space partially consumed by the media’s…
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Tropical Depression Attempts to Bribe Santa, Probably Not Successful
It’s satellite images like this that spawn conspiracy theories about our ability to control the weather.
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Strong Fall Storm Spawns Tornadoes, Snow, Floods, General Malaise
A large storm system that continues to crawl across the United States this afternoon—officially known as Winter Storm Skittlebip III by the dennismersereau dot com naming and brunch committee—will herald the end of our unusually warm fall, bringing in…
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You Don’t Need a Vane to Know Which Way the Wind Blows
It’s strange knowing that, for the first time since my last semester of college, I don’t have to get out of bed and scour the skies for some interesting weather blurb to share with a few thousand of my closest friends.
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