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Hurricane Zeta’s Soggy Remains Flood Southeast – Quiet Election Day for Most of USA?
No More Weather Fatigue Anytime Soon 2020 is the year of chronic fatigue. Covid-fatigue. Election-fatigue. Weather-fatigue. At least we have boasting rights. Assuming no more snow falls by Saturday night (hey, it's 2020 - anything is possible). October will end with a...
Hurricane Zeta – Yet Another Hurricane Hits Louisiana – Building Back Green in Kansas
A Stretch of Indian Summer Next Week "Lord I was born a ramblin' man" sang the Allman Brothers. I must have been an 18-wheel truck driver in a previous life, because I love a good road trip. I just got back from a 10-day, 4200 mile trip to the east coast and back to...
Western Fires – Oklahoma Ice Storm – “Zeta” Threatens New Orleans. Why Most Flood Risk Isn’t Disclosed
Nothing to Fear In Today's Weather Report "The wise man in a storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear" wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unless you've been living in a cave (where can I sign up?) you realize the next few weeks will be...
August Iowa Derecho Now Costliest Thunderstorm in History
The August Iowa derecho is now the costliest thunderstorm in history. The thunderstorm 'decided' it wanted to evolve to take the form of what is known as a derecho as we woke in the mid-morning hours of Monday, August 10th. We are re-writing weather history. So let us...
How Tropical Storms Turbocharge Hurricanes To Come – No Correlation Between October Cold Snaps and Winters That Follow
Adaptability Is A Key 2020 Coping Skill "Man plans, God laughs" a Yiddish proverb insists. Yep. Making plans is so 2019. Plan B? More like Plan Z. All of us are scrambling, improvising - doing what we can to keep things going. As an entrepreneur I've discovered (the...
Growing Season Two Weeks Longer Since 1970 – Was “Delta” America’s 17th Billion Dollar Disaster of 2020?
80s Were Nice, Now Cue the Cold Fronts All weather, like politics, is local. What will happen in my yard, my neighborhood, my hometown? With major media 7-Day Outlooks are tailored for large metropolitan areas, where most people live. It's not fair, but this is our...