New Year’s Winter Storm Threatens Blowing Snow, Severe Storms, Significant Warmth
A developing winter storm will tick almost every box on the hazards checklist to start the first week of the new year as a low-pressure system strengthens over the center of the country. The system is over California right now, bringing plenty of…
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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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Look At This Entire Trough
An ambitious butterfly could make it from Orlando to Buffalo in a couple of minutes if it flew high enough on Friday. An incredibly amplified trough entering the eastern United States will bring this week to the same dreary close we saw last week. In…
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How the June 2018 Heat Wave Triggered Three Derechos in One Day
The word “derecho” is usually not allowed on this wholesome website. I try not to use the word unless we’re talking about an event that’s already happened or the SPC outright uses it in one of their forecasts. That being said,…
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Widespread Severe Thunderstorms Expected in the Central U.S. on Tuesday
A widespread severe weather outbreak is likely on Tuesday in the central United States, covering just about everyone from the Midwest east through the Appalachian Mountains. The Storm Prediction Center expects the worst storms to occur around the…
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Here’s How Thunderstorms Are Able to Form With Temperatures Near Freezing
Loud cracks of thunder and vivid lightning are pretty far down on the list of things you expect to hear and see when the temperature is near freezing, but that’s exactly what folks in North Carolina were greeted to on Tuesday night as a line of…
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