Significant early-week storm to bring flooding rains, widespread strong winds
A long-anticipated and high-impact storm is finally developing over the southern Rockies on Sunday as an impressive trough in the jet stream swoops over the United States. That trough (shown in the model image above) will fuel a powerful low-pressure…
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Uncertainty isn’t a bad thing, and other info you need about the East Coast winter storm
A winter storm is possible across a wide chunk of the eastern U.S. this weekend as a strong storm developing in the southeast sweeps up the coast toward New England. There’s a great deal of uncertainty right now given that we’re about four…
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Weekend deja vu as second powerful East Coast storm hits Sunday and Monday
Didn’t we go through this last weekend? A(nother) powerful storm developing near Florida will roll up the length of the East Coast beginning Saturday night and lasting into Monday, producing a large swath of heavy rains and very strong winds. The…
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East Coast in for a pressure washing as a powerful storm arrives Sunday
A feisty low-pressure system is gearing up to bring plenty of disruptive weather to the East Coast over the next couple of days. Widespread heavy rain could lead to flooding along the I-95 megalopolis while the storm produces snow near the Great Lakes…
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Cold air damming brought Greensboro a wild one-hour temperature tango
The weather is pretty darn cool this time of year. Huge storms romping across the U.S. drag down frigid air from Canada while sucking warm air up from the Gulf of Mexico. Fast-shifting winds spiraling around these sprawling lows can create huge…
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Classic fall storm could bring the southeast strong tornadoes, beneficial rains
A classic fall storm revving up across the central United States this week could bring severe thunderstorms to the southeast—along with beneficial rains for areas falling into a pretty serious drought over the past couple of months. Some of the severe…
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Rapidly intensifying hurricanes truly are the ‘nightmare scenario’
Historic disasters have transitioned from a noteworthy abnormality to something that we’ve come to expect on a regular basis. Unprecedented heat, devastating fires, destructive flash floods, and rapidly intensifying hurricanes are just the way…
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Active 2023 Atlantic hurricane season lands in records despite a strong El Niño
Hurricane warnings are up for portions of the Lesser Antilles this weekend as an unlikely storm lashes the region with high winds and heavy rainfall. Hurricane Tammy is our 20th named storm of this remarkable hurricane season. It’s noteworthy to…
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Quenching rains on the way to aid growing drought across the U.S.
Multiple systems sweeping across the United States this week will bring beneficial rains to areas of the Midwest and Gulf Coast that have been hit hard by drought in recent months. Too much of a good thing is always a concern, of course, and some areas…
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‘We had no warning’—NYC flash floods test our strained attention economy
‘We had no warning’ is one of the most worrying and upsetting things anyone in the weather field can hear in the aftermath of an impactful storm. The latest wave of flash flooding that swamped much of New York City brought up the endless…
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