A Nationwide Heat Wave Leads To A Severe Weather Risk On Wednesday
Hey, hey—it’s a story about heat that’s not just about the west! Aren’t we special? A large ridge of high pressure building over the central United States will intensify the heat most of us are feeling this week. Highs will soar into…
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GOES-17 Is Back Online After Engineers Resolve A Computer Error
Some good news on the satellite front: GOES-17 is going to be just fine. The weather satellite, which covers the Pacific Ocean and the western half of the Americas, came back online a little before 9:00 a.m. Eastern today after a 31-hour outage caused by…
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GOES-17, A Fighter Among Weather Satellites, Faces Yet Another Health Hiccup
The weather satellite that monitors the Pacific Ocean and western North America went into safety mode and stopped transmitting data early Thursday morning. There’s no public word on what’s troubling GOES-17, which is also called GOES-West,…
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Another Week Of Summer, Another Record-Breaking Heat Wave
Oh, look. It’s another story about extreme heat breaking records somewhere. What a novel story angle. It’s hard for heat to become news. It’s consistent. It’s brutal. It claims a huge toll. But it’s not sexy. There’s…
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Hurricane Elsa Approaching Tampa, Florida, As Storm Closes In On Landfall
Elsa is a hurricane again as it draws closer to its inevitable landfall north of Tampa, Florida, in the early morning hours on Wednesday. Strong winds, heavy rain, and tornadoes are likely across the Florida Peninsula and parts of the southeastern United…
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Flooding Rain, Tornadoes Likely As Tropical Storm Elsa Heads Toward Florida
Tropical Storm Elsa is on track to make landfall along Florida’s west coast on Wednesday morning. The storm will bring strong winds and flooding rains to communities in its path, as well as the risk for a storm surge along the coast as it nears…
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Tropical Storm Warnings Issued In Florida As Elsa Chugs Through Northern Caribbean
A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Florida Keys as Tropical Storm Elsa slowly gets its act together in the northern Caribbean Sea. The storm quickly ramped up into a hurricane over Barbados last week, but it moved so fast that it shredded…
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