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Tracking Potential Tropical Cyclone Three – National Weather Outlook For June 18, 2021
National Weather Forecast On Friday, we’ll watch the potential for showers and storms across the Northern Gulf Coast as a tropical system approaches the region. Elsewhere, we’ll see some afternoon storms over the Rockies and the Front Range, with more rain from the...
Tropical Trouble In The Gulf? – National Weather Outlook For June 17, 2021
National Weather Forecast As a system moves through the central United States Thursday, showers and storms will be possible from the Great Lakes back toward the Rockies. Some showers and storms will be possible across Florida and the Gulf Coast, with increasing rain...
MSP: Most 95-Degree Highs So Early in the Season – Using Drones to Improve Hurricane Forecasts
Most 95 Degree Days So Early in Season I’m happiest when Mother Nature isn’t trying to murder me. This is the atmosphere’s attempt at balance: extreme school-closing cold can, in fact, be followed by extreme school-closing heat. Welcome to the most 95-degree days ever...
Nighttime Heat Biggest Killer in Heat Waves – Chasing Cyclones Via Satellite – Tracking “Godzilla”: Massive 2020 Atlantic Dust Storm
Research: Warm Nighttime Temperatures Pose Greatest Risk It’s not as viscerally terrifying as a tornado, hurricane or flood, but excessive heat is a bigger killer than all three. In the last 6 decades the number of annual heat waves in 50 US cities has, on average,...
Expanding Heat – Expanding Drought – Tornado Alley Shifting South/East?
Welcome to the Dog Days of June ”It’s so hot your clothes iron themselves.” “Wait, it’s so hot they installed a fan in the debt ceiling!” True story. From a Polar Vortex in February to the Vegas Vortex in June, all signs point to an unusually hot and dry summer. This...
Northern US Heat Wave Continues – National Weather Outlook For June 7, 2021
Twin Cities Long Heat Waves On/Before June 15th Are Not Common This stretch of early-season heat will go down in the record book for more than just the record highs that have been set. The Minnesota State Climatology Department complied some early-season (occurring on...