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 [...]
Nov. 10, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather – A powerful storm that resembles a hurricane with snow, a “snowicane”, continues to pound western Alaska. “The potentially historic ‘superstorm’… is making ‘landfall’ in Alaska today with a pressure equivalent to a Category 4 Hurricane,” said AccuWeather.com’s Jesse Ferrell. Part of this fierce storm will dive into the contiguous [...]
Oct. 21, 2011 2 Comments
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather — A number of sizable dust storms, ongoing drought and intense heat this past summer have many wondering if another Dust Bowl is in the works. The Dust Bowl Era was a series of drought years spanning the early and middle 1930s, which was made worse by wind storms that [...]
Oct. 18, 2011 1 Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather.com — Whipping winds will threaten more dust storms and fires across Texas through the middle of this week. Gusts greater than 40 mph across much of Texas will follow a potent cold front, keeping the threat high for these dangers. The howling winds will help pick up dust due to [...]
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 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather — Thunderstorms that moved through Middlesboro, Ky. overnight caused part of a mine to collapse, trapping three miners inside. The miners are reported to be safe inside the mine. Rainfall since midnight measured in Middlesboro was 4.74 inches, and in 24 hours, 4.84 inches of rain fell. The bulk of [...]
June 20, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, PA — AccuWeather — A wound-up storm rolling out of the Rockies has potential to bring the worst tornado outbreak since May to parts of the Plains into tonight. The combination of very warm, humid air at the surface, shifting of winds with height, and a strong jet stream overhead has the atmosphere [...]
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 [...]
May 24, 2011 Leave a Comment
DALLAS — Several tornadoes hit Oklahoma City and nearby communities during the busy afternoon rush hour Tuesday, leaving at least two people dead and seriously hurting several children. Canadian County, Okla. County emergency director Jerry Smith told the Associated Press that the storm hit the communities of El Reno and Piedmont, just west of the [...]
May 24, 2011 2 Comments
The National Weather Service has determined that the devastating tornado that directly hit Joplin, Mo. was in fact an EF-5, the highest classification of tornadoes. This means that Joplin, a city of more than 100,000 people, was battered by winds in excess of 200 miles per hour. Tornadoes rarely strike cities directly and are much [...]
May 23, 2011 2 Comments
The death toll from the tornado that destroyed Joplin, Mo., on Sunday has reached 116 according to a city official, putting it in a tie for the single deadliest twister to hit American soil since the National Weather Service began keeping records 61 years ago. The last time a tornado caused this much human loss [...]
May 22, 2011 4 Comments
A tornado struck the city of Joplin, Mo., on Sunday, killing at least 116 people and causing catastrophic damage. Nearly a quarter of Joplin has been destroyed — not damaged, but removed from the earth. A massive search and rescue operation has been going on in Jasper County, with temporary morgues going up in the [...]
March 23, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Accuweather reports that as if the 6 to 12 inches of snow was not enough for portions of New York and Pennsylvania, more snow is coming from the same storm system. There is plenty of energy and moisture left with the storm and it appears that cold air will hold its [...]
Feb. 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — AccuWeather — The risk of major flooding across the nation remains rather low into early next week, but there will be some minor problems and ice jam concerns. Most rivers across the nation were below flood stage as of Thursday morning, February 17, 2011, but an increasing number of rivers were [...]
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 [...]
Jan. 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
It looks like The Blizzard of 2010 will be followed immediately by the Blizzard of 2011 The National Weather Service in Taunton has issued a Blizzard Waning for the entire East Coast of Massachusetts, including Cape Cod, Boston, and up to Gloucester. The warning goes from 2 a.m. all the way to 8 p.m. on [...]
