One only has to look to the news over the past few weeks to see outbreaks of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes: Tornadoes in Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, and Florida to name a few. Nationwide, the United States can expect an average of more than 1,000 tornadoes annually.
A strong low pressure system and cold front will move from eastward across the central and eastern U.S. today and tomorrow bringing a risk of strong-to-severe thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall, frequent lightning, strong, gusty winds and isolated tornadoes.
Significant snow, severe thunderstorms, even tornadoes are possible across the U.S. today and tomorrow. The next week and a half will include dramatic weather in many areas as cold air from the north collides with warm, humid air in the South.
As a young meteorologist stationed at Homestead Air Force Base in southern Florida, I’m familiar with the tropical weather of the region. Morning funnel clouds just off the coast were nearly as common as the sound of jet turbines spooling up at the first hint of daylight. Viewed from the control tower, distant waterspouts were [...]
It’s a classic scenario for severe weather, and it appears to be on target as we head into the later days of the week. At this time it looks like more stable conditions will diminish this system as it pushes eastward, then drier and more stable air following the severe weather will allow a pleasant [...]
At the risk of making YourWeatherBlog begin to sound like YourElNiñoBlog, I wanted to tie the two main weather features of the coming couple of months into one sentence: El Niño will likely enhance the spring severe weather season with more frequent storms, stronger storms and more tornadoes. Tornadoes can generate wind speeds of 250mph [...]
This isn’t the first post on YourWeatherBlog discussing the unusual weather across Australia. From high heat to flooding to tropical cyclones, Australia is no stranger to severe or unusual weather. This time, severe thunderstorms over Melbourne delivered flooding downpours and large hail Saturday — hail the size of lemons, it was reported. You likely don’t [...]
[Just as this post was about to be uploaded to YourWeatherBlog an amended storm report surfaced that included a lone, weak tornado in California on February 27. Not wanting the facts to stand in the way of a good severe weather article, we're posting the article in its original state while at the same time [...]
Though it’s the rainy season across Equatorial Africa, that doesn’t necessarily mean the rest of the continent is dry. In fact, it’s summer south of the Equator and summer storms are frequent. Plus, strong cold fronts far south in the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean brush across South Africa with regularity at this time of [...]
National Weather Service Changes Severe Storm Qualifications Effective January 5, 2010. Because significant damage does not occur until hail size reaches 1-inch in diameter, the National Weather Service has upped hail size from .75in to 1.0in in NWS-issued Severe Thunderstorm Warnings. The NWS reports that user feedback suggests warnings are now more meaningful. TV networks [...]