Wednesday was a fairly active severe weather day across not only our area, but much of the east and southeastern portion of the country. In fact, Wednesday had the greatest potential for major severe weather we have seen in quite awhile. We escaped major destructive weather but that doesn’t mean we didn’t see some […]
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“Winter” 2016-17: We Hardly Knew Ye
And when I say hardly, I mean hardly. When you think of winter you think of something like…this: But for the most part, no. Winter looked nothing like that. We had a couple of snow “events” in the past 3 months but nothing worth writing home about. This should give you an effective summary of our […]
NWS Confirms Two Tornadoes Struck South-Central Kentucky
After the severe weather that impacted our region on Wednesday morning, the National Weather Service has now confirmed that two tornadoes struck south-central Kentucky early Wednesday morning. The first tornado struck in the western portion of Butler County south of Rochester at approximately 12:35 AM CST and was on the ground for around 2 minutes. The […]
Southern California Preparing for Heavy Rain
When you think of Southern California, particularly the Los Angeles Area, you don’t much think of heavy rain, do you? But the area will look nothing like this through through the weekend. A strong storm system is coming onshore for the weekend that will inundate the LA Basin with copious amounts of heavy rain. This is […]
Making Your Weather Pizza
Yes, that is a picture of a heart shaped pizza. Why you may ask? Well, I love pizza. So why not eat a heart shaped pizza on Valentine’s Day (I hope that you did)!? It truly is an amazing thing to think about. My fiancée and I once ate one on Valentine’s Day, and two […]
Portions of New Orleans Cleaning Up After Damaging Tornado
Earlier this week, the southeast was impacted by a somewhat rare but by no means unprecedented February severe weather outbreak. And the hardest hit area was, without a doubt, the greater New Orleans area. According to the storm survey from NWS New Orleans, an EF-3 tornado touched down at 11:12am CT in an area known as […]
New England is Getting Walloped With Snow
Over the past few days, the weather models had been honing in on a strong piece of atmospheric energy diving southeastward out of southern Canada. This was forecast to force a strong surface low that would explosively develop just off the northeastern coast. Associated with this would be strong dynamics, and the ability to force […]
Lake Effect Snow Continues to Pound Western New York
Not a winter goes by where the Great Lakes don’t cause headaches for someone and usually that’s areas downwind of Lakes Erie and Ontario in portions of western New York. You guessed it: lake effect snow. But what exactly is lake effect snow? Simply, the air cools much faster than water does. So, the air […]
Yesterday’s Awesome Sun Pillar
A sun pillar appeared yesterday across south-central Kentucky! A sun pillar is is a vertical shaft of light extending upward or downward from the sun. Typically seen during sunrise or sunset, sun pillars form when sunlight reflects off the surfaces of falling ice crystals associated with thin, high-level clouds. Check out the images below if you […]
California, US Drought Improves Drastically
As you all well know, much of the US, especially the Southeast and California, was entrenched in a drought, with the worst effects being felt in California. The drought there had been ongoing for several years, and people wondered when it would stop. The southeast drought had been ongoing since the beginning of 2016. Areas […]