Tag Archives: heavy rainfall

Coldest Weather Yet On Tap this Weekend For Many Parts of the Country

There’s a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, including the weather, as it’s shaping up to be pretty nice across a good portion of the country. After some much needed rain fell here in Texas yesterday, it looks like we’re going to dry out the next day or two before an even stronger cold [...]

Cool Air Spreads Southward While Tropical Disturbance Lingers in Southern Gulf

Cooler air is moving southward today behind a strong cold front. The actual front moved through Southeast Texas earlier this morning, with breezy northwesterly winds between 15-25 mph with higher gusts behind it. Temperatures have also been a lot cooler behind the front and it’s now 60F in Dallas, 69F in Houston and 76F in [...]

Dam Saves $2 Billion

January and February brought a lot of snow to the Mid-Atlantic states. In fact, record-breaking snows in the “all time” category fell near and far across the region. Not too far from the Mid-Atlantic, off to the northwest a bit, is the shoulder area between the Great Lakes and the Mid-Atlantic: Pennsylvania and, more specifically, [...]

Tornado Season Underway

Based on the latest tornado statistics from the National Weather Service, there have been 49 tornadoes reported in the U.S. so far in 2010.  Forty-one of the reports came from local storm reports in January. On Monday, a tornado ripped through the western Oklahoma town of Hammon destroying at least five homes and leaving many [...]