This Week’s Major Storm Will Plaster The Northern Plains With Up To Two Feet Of Snow
A wet, wind-driven snow will plaster the Plains and Upper Midwest this week as another memorable springtime winter storm rapidly spins-up over the center of the country. The storm—not too dissimilar from the major storm we saw this time last month—will…
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An Intense April Nor’easter Produced Atlantic Supercells And Snow In The Carolinas
A powerful nor’easter developed off the eastern coast of the Carolinas on Tuesday, bringing a burst of winter weather to a part of the country that hasn’t seen much of it this year. The formation and track of the nor’easter has been in…
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March’s Historic ‘Bomb Cyclone’ Produced An All-Time Record Wind Gust In Colorado Springs
The record-setting storm that blasted the Plains states a couple of weeks ago set an all-time high wind gust at the airport in Colorado Springs. The airport’s gauge recorded a 96 MPH gust during the height of the storm, which is an incredible feat…
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A Tropical Storm Near Brazil Is Only the Third Ever Recorded in the South Atlantic Ocean
A rare tropical storm formed off the southeastern coast of Brazil this weekend, a difficult feat for the hostile atmosphere over the southern half of the Atlantic Ocean. Tropical Storm Iba is one of just a handful of tropical cyclones to form in this…
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Historic Storm Triggers Historic Flooding Across Nebraska
The record-setting storm that blew across the Plains states earlier this week led to a catastrophic flooding situation in Nebraska, unleashing the some of the worst flooding ever seen by many of the region’s living residents Waterways across…
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Unusually Intense Storm Set To Bring Every Type Of Weather To Central U.S. This Week
Would you like some weather? Here, have much weather! A low-pressure system developing over the central Plains will grow into quite the storm over the next couple of days. Latest forecasts indicate that the low could bottom-out with a minimum central…
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There’s an Enhanced Risk for Strong Tornadoes in the Mid-South on Saturday
An enhanced risk for severe thunderstorms exists in parts of the southeastern United States on Saturday, the third weekend in a row residents have to look out for an outbreak of dangerous thunderstorms. Today’s risk includes the possibility for…
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Deadly Alabama Tornado Tests The Boundaries Of Advanced Tornado Warnings
A significant tornado outbreak in the southeastern United States on Sunday killed at least 23 people despite hours of advanced warning that dangerous storms were on the way. Most of the fatalities occurred in Lee County, Alabama, likely making that…
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AccuWeather, Man, What Are You Doing?
AccuWeather published a story today predicting that tornado activity this year will focus on springtime twisters in Tornado Alley and that the United States will see 1,075 tornadoes in the year 2019, coming in six percent below average. Oh, word? The…
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NOAA Delays Release of Updated GFS Weather Model Because It Likes Snow Too Much
NOAA announced on Tuesday that the agency will delay the release of the updated GFS weather model because they accidentally gave it the personality of a husky. The update’s release, which had been scheduled for the middle of March, was already…
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