Significant Snow Event Affects Iowa and Illinois

Yesterday, one of the first winter storms of the season impacted much of central/northern Illinois and eastern Iowa. An amplified and fairly strong shortwave trough propagated eastward across the central Midwestern states yesterday, setting the region to see a fairly significant snowfall. Much of the day, strong divergence was present within the mid and upper […]

Obama Signs Disaster Declaration

Yesterday, President Barack Obama declared a major disaster still exists in the Commonwealth as a result of severe winter storms this past season. This Kentucky Disaster Declaration will provide federal aid to assist in paying for recovery efforts from the snowstorms, landslides, mudslides, and flooding that occurred between the dates of February 15-22 earlier this […]

The Weather Grammys

Last night, the Grammys were on and the show was about 7 millennia long (3 and a half hours seems like major overkill). Major artists like Sam Smith, Beck, Ed Sheeran and Kendrick Lamar won Grammys last evening, and it was all fun and games. It was the largest collection of musical talent all year long, […]