As El Niño fades and with surface pressures across the Atlantic forecast to be well below normal, the 2010 hurricane season will likely be quite a bit more active than 2009. Join us for a free 20-minute webinar Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 10:30 that will focus on our update for the 2010 season outlook. [...]
June 1st marks the official start of the 2010 Hurricane season, but there’s a good chance that the National Hurricane Center will upgrade the system shown below to subtropical depression status during the next 24 hours. By Wednesday or Thursday of this week, it could be our first subtropical storm of the season. Right now, [...]
On Thursday, Cyclone Laila made landfall on the coast of southeastern Indian with winds up to 100 kilometers (60 miles) per hour and was responsible for uprooting trees and downed power lines. Heavy rains and strong winds killed at least 23 people over the past two days and 55 fishermen have been reported missing even [...]
Despite way too many OMG!s, this video shows a not uncommon occurrence in Oklahoma – baseball-sized hail. I had the "pleasure" of experiencing soda can-sized hail when I lived in Oklahoma several years ago. At the weather station at Altus Air Force Base we used to keep a football helmet and shoulder pads by the [...]
PennWell article located here.
On Wednesday, Mandalay municipal authorities reported that at least 230 people have died so far of heat stress in Myanmar’s second largest city of Mandalay. Extremely hot temperatures over the past two months in Myanmar have broken the highest in history. Temperatures here have soared to 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) which has taken [...]
An outbreak of severe thunderstorms will be possible today across the Southern Plains as an upper level disturbance interacts with warm, moist unstable air. The greatest risk for widespread severe thunderstorms will occur this afternoon and evening across much of Oklahoma, southern Kansas, and the Red River Valley of north Texas. Storms that develop within [...]
Space is limited and time is running out to register for the 21st Annual Hurricane Seminar for Business and Industry. The seminar will be held at the Houston Hobby Marriott this Friday, May 21st from 7:45a until a little past noon and includes a hearty breakfast buffet. For more information, go to hurricaneseminar.com or just [...]
Heavy rains which fell across portions central Europe the past few days triggered flash floods which are responsible for killing at least nine people, forcing mass evacuations and cutting off power for thousands. In Poland alone, five people have now been killed in the floods over the last three days and more rain is in [...]
The Houston Chronicle: Hurricane season forecasts tending toward very active.