Flood Concerns On The Rise

Cloudy skies joined warm temperatures in the mid/upper 50s today, ahead of a moisture-fied (not a real word) system that’ll put flood concerns on the rise Friday into Saturday. A low pressure system is moving northeast toward the Ohio Valley, bringing a surge of moisture along with a passing warm front. An associated cold front […]

Flooding and Severe Weather Possible for Friday

wxornotBG 6/23/17: Severe weather, flash flooding the main focus today; beautiful weekend set to follow. Publicado por Landon Hampton em Sexta, 23 de junho de 2017 Forecast Discussion Let’s go ahead and dive right in because we have a lot to talk about this morning. First off, let’s talk about the flooding threat. The entire […]

Wet and Stormy Bowling Green Weather

Real Time Bowling Green Weather Radar:   ***FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM*** Today 12/28 – Showers and Thunderstorms; Windy – High 72° / Tonight – Mostly Cloudy – Low 47° A warm front is currently located across much of Tennessee. This will begin to lift northward into our region during the morning […]

Flash Flooding Possible West of Bowling Green

Quite a bit of rainfall is forecast west of Bowling Green over the next few days. This has prompted the National Weather Service to issue a Flash Flood Watch for counties in Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Low to mid-level winds will be out of the south. This will provide […]

Pineapple Express Helps to Alleviate California Drought

Portions of the western United States are in desperate need of rainfall but January offered little to no drought relief in California. Check out this map illustrating radar-estimated rainfall totals during the month of January. Areas shaded in green and blue saw less than two inches of monthly rainfall. If you thought the Bowling Green bubble […]

Deep South Seeing Extreme Rainfall Amounts

While there have not been any significant weather events in the Ohio Valley during the month of December, many locations along the Gulf Coast have seen multiple rounds of heavy rainfall over the past several weeks. Check out this map illustrating the percentage of normal precipitation over the past two weeks: Anywhere you see cooler […]

Rare Flash Flood Watch in Southern California

It’s not often we see flooding problems in southern California. Today, the NWS office in San Diego issued a flash flood watch for most of the region.   Check out the official text from the watch: * SHOWERS POSSIBLE THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. * HEAVY RAINFALL RATES OF ONE-HALF INCH PER HOUR OR MORE IN THE […]

Flooding Now a Concern in Buffalo

Now that the lake-effect snow event is over for places like Buffalo, flooding is the next concern for areas that were pounded with heavy snow. Temperatures are expected to rise above freezing in Buffalo and remain that way until Tuesday while rain moves in this weekend. The combination of melting snow pack and rainfall will […]

Remnants of Hurricane Odile Causing Flooding Problems

Hurricane Odile was plowing through the eastern Pacific several days ago before making landfall in Baja California. Now the remnants of Odile have moved into the southwest U.S. where the weakening disturbance is causing enough spin in the atmosphere to produce widespread rainfall throughout the region. Check out the current hazards in the southwest, counties […]

Monsoon Brings Rain Chances to Southwest U.S.

Flash flood watches are in effect for most the southwest U.S. as an area of surface low pressure over Nevada will allow for southerly winds to pull monsoonal moisture in this region. Check out the latest advisory map from the NWS showing a large area of counties shaded in dark green which indicates a flash […]