Dec. 8, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — Rumors have been spreading that the National Weather Service (NWS) is getting rid of wind chill values, which describe how cold it feels with wind factored in. The truth is NWS offices in the Dakotas and Minnesota are not eliminating wind chills; they are changing the way they warn [...]
Oct. 3, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — A sluggish storm will bring a chilly rain to many parts of the Northeast through early this week, but hope for rain-weary people is in sight. The jet stream, a river of high winds aloft that steers storms across the country, is positioned well to the north over Canada. [...]
Aug. 29, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, PA — AccuWeather.com – Although Irene is now history, she won’t be forgotten in the minds of millions of Easterners who dealt with her wrath this past weekend. At least 21 deaths have been attributed to Irene, which is now barreling across southeastern Canada as a post-tropical storm. Wind gusts above 100 mph, rainfall totals north [...]
June 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Severe thunderstorms will ride over the northern rim of heat expanding into the Midwest and the Northeast. A storm system shifting eastward across the northern Plains will produce a trigger for the storms, while the hot, muggy air will act as the fuel. Communities from northern Minnesota to western New York [...]
Jan. 28, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — The latest indications continue to point toward a large storm forming amidst a building temperature contrast over the middle of the nation. Precipitation and strong cold air/warm air circulation around that storm will affect many millions of people from the interior West to the Atlantic Coast as next week [...]
Nov. 8, 2010 Leave a Comment
State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — The first snow of the season greeted people across southern New England this morning with a coating to several inches blanketing areas from Connecticut into Rhode Island and Massachusetts. In Burrillville, R.I., residents woke up to 2.5 inches of snow on the ground. Other snowfall totals that have been [...]
May 7, 2010 Leave a Comment
State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — Winds and waves will increase later in the weekend into early next week and may cause oil slick to shift. Concerns of hurricanes and drift remain for the weeks and months ahead. Crews were lowering an over-sized funnel 5,000 feet down to the Gulf of Mexico floor Friday in [...]
Jan. 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
As recovery efforts begin after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, AccuWeather.com reports that the Caribbean nation is also overdue for a major hurricane, said chief meteorologist and long range forecaster Joe Bastardi. In 1963, Hurricane Flora brought heavy rainfall and flooding to Haiti, damaging crops, buildings and trees. During that five year period in the [...]
Nov. 23, 2009 1 Comment
State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — AccuWeather.com reports areas of wind-driven rain and snow will challenge even the heartiest shoppers on Black Friday from the Great Lakes to the coastal Northeast. The track of the storm is still questionable as a jog farther east or west than now anticipated could mean the difference between rain [...]
Feb. 11, 2009 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — Ahead of a potent storm, unseasonably mild air will pour across the eastern-third of the nation Wednesday. Temperatures will soar above typical mid-February highs by 10 to 20 degrees. Highs today will rise into the 60s as far north as Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Temperatures will even eclipse the [...]
Jan. 27, 2009 Leave a Comment
State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — A major winter storm with widespread snow and ice is in the process of overspreading the Northeast, and if what has already happened farther west is any indication, this may be one of the more potent systems this winter season. Tuesday evening through Wednesday, a large area from Indiana [...]
Jan. 8, 2009 Leave a Comment
State College, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — A large swath of snow will stretch across the northern third of the nation later Thursday through this weekend from a fast-moving “clipper” storm. This storm is found in southern areas of British Columbia and Alberta today and will dive southeast bringing a large area of 3 to 6 [...]
