The Climate Prediction Center issued a La Niña Advisory on Thursday for the upcoming winter after a noticeable trend of cooling waters in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean over the past several months.
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Northbound on the #GoldenGateBridge at noon today. "Is this normal?" asked a tourist from Texas. And then another from Michigan. No. It's new. And definitely not normal. #abc7now #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/Pc4JL5rRsq— Wayne Freedman (@WayneFreedman) September 9, 2020 People really don’t know what to do right now. Everyone on the Embarcadero is stopping to record the sky
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2020 continues to zip right on by… Yeah, pretty crazy to think we’re already talking about truly fall-like air. It’s looking more and more likely we’re be in the thick of it by this time next week! And if we’re going to talk technicalities, the fall season has already begun! Meteorologists use September 1st to
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Follow @TheAstroNick and @NHC_Atlantic on Twitter for lots of cool Hurricane Hunter updates! Today I installed a Turbulence Indicator (it's a dropsonde ribbon wrapped around a dropsonde cap and tied to the ceiling) to try to better illustrate the bouncing around. I think it works, personally.#Laura was a hurricane by this point but I hadn't
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NOAA article on hurricane formation and how they’re named
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What we know now Tropical depression 13 and 14 continue to churn in the Atlantic basin Thursday afternoon. Both are expected to become named storms (winds of 39 mph or greater) within the next 24 hours. They would be Laura and Marco. Official tracks from the National Hurricane Center indicate both storms posing a threat
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⬇️Help our neighbors to the north⬇️ Greater Cedar Rapids Community Foundation GoFundMe for Individual Families Affected
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This past Sunday Furnace Creek, CA hit a scorching 130º. If this is confirmed, it will be the third-hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. The all-time record was set in 1913 at 134º. Many meteorologists dispute this record due to lower-grade technology employed in that time. If you were to disregard the old record, this
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→You can view an interactive map of United States wildfires here←
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From this morning… Folks this rain is NO JOKE flooding already occurring on Lindell at Vandeventer. #STLwx #TurnAroundDontDrown pic.twitter.com/v8sFHandxr— Matt Beitscher (@FMtheWeatherman) August 12, 2020 Deja Vu?… Same area saw flooding Sunday Serious Flash flooding event going on in areas that can't handle several inches of rain in a short time. Lots of lightning and
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What makes a “derecho”? Monday’s historic wind event brought damage to several major cities from Iowa through north-central Illinois. This storm is referred to as a squall line. You may also here bow echo, or mesoscale convective system. What made this storm a derecho was it’s power. The word derecho comes from the spanish word
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SYNOPSIS A cold front continues to track south across northern Missouri Monday afternoon. Instability values are expected to be very high due to the heat and humidity expected. Wind shear looks relatively low, so a tornado threat looks low at the moment. Damaging wind, flash flooding and hail look like greater threats. TIMING Storms have
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NASA’s in-depth article on the 2020 Perseid meteor shower
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We’ve gotten a break from the 90s this week but the humid, muggy weather has held on strong. That’s set to change as a strong cold front is set to burst south through mid-Missouri Sunday night. Much drier air will help us cool off into the 70s for highs with lows into the mid-to-upper 50s–
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