Weather Timeline

Derecho Fails To Impress As Storm Heads Toward East Coast

Derecho Storm Doesn't Impress

The feared derecho largely failed to impress on Wednesday and Thursday as a massive storm system moved across the country. The storm caused widespread power outages and flash floods, but failed to live up to its forecast. The National Weather Service issued warnings for the Washington, D.C., area to expect strong thunderstorms that have the… Read more »

Derecho Warning Spreads To East Coast As Powerful Storm Approaches

Derecho Warning Spreads To East Coast

A derecho warning is being issued for the East Coast as a powerful line of thunderstorms move across a large portion of the United States. The thunderstorms have cut across the Midwest, leaving a trail of destruction in the way of toppled trees and lightning strikes. Meteorologists say the storms may spawn a weather event… Read more »

Derecho Brings Midwest An Unusual Number Of Powerful Thunderstorms

Derecho Hitting Midwest Today

A giant line of powerful thunderstorms known as derecho are making their way from Iowa to Maryland on Wednesday. A derecho is a massive storm of strong straight-line winds that spans at least 250 miles Meteorologists in the area are warning that the powerful storms are likely to generate tornadoes and power outages. After the… Read more »

Tropical Storm Andrea Opens Atlantic Hurricane Season [Video]

Tropical Storm Andrea

Tropical Storm Andrea is heading toward the Florida big bend, according to a 4 am advisory from the National Weather Service (NWS) National Hurricane Center in Miami. Check out the map below for the current projected track of Tropical Storm Andrea, which has already formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to make… Read more »

New Tornadoes Touch Down In Oklahoma

Oklahoma New Tornadoes

At least two new tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma on Thursday, continuing an almost two week long streak of devastating storms to hit the Plains states. Along with Oklahoma, twisters also tore through Arkansas, injuring at least nine people. The first twister was reported near Perkins in northeast Oklahoma. A second was reported near Ripley,… Read more »

Tornado Watch Issued For Parts Of Oklahoma

Tornado Watch Issued For Oklahoma

A new tornado watch was issued for eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday. The Storm Prediction Center said the region might see severe storms later this afternoon and evening. Officials said these supercells are capable of producing three-inch hail and tornadoes. It’s also believed the severe weather will affect other regions as well. Weather experts… Read more »

Granbury Tornadoes Survivors Speak Out, Missing Found [Video]

Granbury tornadoes

The seven Granbury tornadoes missing persons have all been found and accounted for as of Friday morning, a bit of good news for survivors of the 16 deadly north Texas tornadoes that struck the area on Wednesday. According to one media tweet, a meteorologist even helped to recover a lost cat. The National Weather Service… Read more »

Toronto Earthquake Registers 5.1 Magnitude, Followed By 4.2 Aftershock

Toronto Earthquake

Toronto was rocked by a 5.1 magnitude earthquake at 9:43 am on Friday. The earthquake originated 25 kilometres (15 miles) outside of the city. The US Geological Survey reports that the earthquake originated in the area north-northeast of Shawville, Quebec. The earthquake was file kilometers deep according to the USGS. Ten minutes after the initial… Read more »

Rare Italy Tornado Caught On Terrifying Video [Video]

Italy tornado

A northern Italian tornado struck Friday near Bologna. The event was captured on several amateur videos which reveal the size of the shockingly powerful tornado which injured at least 13 people and damaged hundreds of structures and vehicles in several small towns and villages. The huge spout of the terrifying twister can be seen over… Read more »

Antarctica Is Melting Too, New Video

antarctica is melting, new video

A chilling new video of Antarctica’s future has been created, and I’m not just saying that for the sake of the cheap pun. The Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has recently released the short clip which their experts produced with the assistance of climate scientists from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the UK’s… Read more »

Iceland Volcano Stirs

Iceland Volcano is stirring

Those Icelandic volcanoes might know that we’re talking about them. On Tuesday, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) raised the warning for one volcano, Hekla, to the “level of uncertainty” that bears watching because of an increase in micro-earthquake activity. At the time of writing, the largest earthquake measured was still a very mild one scoring… Read more »

Solar Flares: Scientists Change 2013 Predictions … Again

solar flares

Solar flare predictions for 2013 are once again fluctuating. Space weather experts at NOAA and NASA agree that we are nearing the peak of the Sun’s 11-year cycle, but that is about the only fact that has garnered a consensus lately. Coronal mass ejections (CME) are formed from sun spots. Scientists only learned how solar… Read more »

Late Winter Storm Dumps Snow Across Northeast, Clogs Roads

Late Winter Storm Dumps Snow Across Northeast, Clogs Roads

A late winter storm slammed much of the Northeast on Tuesday, covering roads with snow and leading to delayed schools and congested morning commutes. The storm started to drop snow and sleet overnight on Monday and into early Tuesday, and, for some areas, the snow will continue through the day on Tuesday. Forecasters predicted as… Read more »

Hurricane Prediction Study Says Ten Times More Katrinas Coming

hurricane prediction researcher warns there will be 10 times more Katrinas

Oh, boy. The newest hurricane prediction, from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, predicts that there will be ten times as many Katrinas by the year 2100, with the formerly once-in-a-generation storm surges coming every other year. The study appeared today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It… Read more »

Winter Storm Saturn Blankets East Coast

winter-storm-sandy

Winter Storm Saturn has traveled across the entire continental US, burying communities in snow and hindering travel. East Coast residents across several states are feeling the force of a snow storm that is dropping up to a feet of snow in places. Washington, D.C., has only just begun to see snowfall, but local airports have… Read more »