Drier than Normal Conditions in Parts of the Northeast

While much of the eastern United States is dealing with heavy rain and flooding, it is a much different story in the western States.  There, heat, drought, and wildfires continue to dominate the headlines.  California is currently in the midst of its worst wildfire year on record, with dozens of lives lost and over 10,000…

It may only be November, but a blast of winter is poised to target the central United States for the second half of this week and spread to the eastern States this weekend and next week.  The latest weather models are predicting temperatures at 850 millibars between -10 and -20 degrees Celsius over much of…

While much of eastern North America has been dealing with very cold temperatures so far this April, it has been a different story on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Recently, unseasonably warm temperatures have visited the United Kingdom, even breaking some records.  On April 19th, St. James Park in London recorded a temperature…

When one thinks of where a tornado would strike, one usually thinks of farms, with the storm churning up fields or perhaps leveling a barn. But on occasion, a tornado can rip through a city. That’s exactly what happened in Nashville, Tennessee in the predawn hours Tuesday morning, as multiple tornadoes hit the city and…

When one thinks of tornadoes, states like Kansas and Oklahoma come to mind. But on Tuesday, 2 tornadoes touched down on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, actually from the same thunderstorm cell. The two tornadoes, both of EF1 intensity struck the towns of Barnstable/Yarmouth, first one around midday, and then Harwich minutes later, with winds of up…

The calendar may read April, but Mother Nature didn’t get the memo in the Northeastern United States, as a winter-like storm hit the area Monday morning.  New York City and surrounding areas were especially hard hit, as snow fell at a rate of two inches per hour during the morning rush hour.  By the time…