Gulf Coast landfall of Nate likely late this weekend, potentially as a hurricane
Headlines An area of thunderstorm activity in the southwest Caribbean has been designated as the 15th depression of the season and will become Tropical Storm Nate later today or tomorrow. The western...
View ArticleGulf Coast Remains Under Threat of Potential Hurricane Nate
Headlines As of 8 am EDT on Thursday, TD16 became Tropical Storm Nate and is beginning to cause strong winds and rainfall in Nicaragua and Honduras. TS Nate is expected to strengthen overnight and...
View ArticleCat 1 Nate Landfall Sunday morning near New Orleans most likely scenario
Tropical Storm Nate is tracking toward the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula while intensifying over the far western Caribbean, with central pressure of 996 mb, moving north-northwest at 14 mph, with...
View ArticleNate verifies as forecast; Tropical Depression #17 no threat to land
Key headlines: Forecast verified well: Nate verified largely as forecasted, making landfall Saturday evening near the mouth of the Mississippi River with a second landfall several hours later just...
View ArticleDangerous Wildfires Forcing Evacuations in Northern California; Santa Ana...
Fueled by very low relative humidity and gusty winds, several separate wildfires north of the San Francisco Bay Area have grown quickly overnight, and are now prompting evacuations as thousands of...
View ArticleWorse Than Expected 2017 Wildfire Season Continues with Uncontrolled...
From Flooding to Wildfires: California’s Weather Extremes The general expectation heading into 2017 was that the wildfire season might be less active than typical, due to very heavy winter snows and...
View ArticleHurricane Ophelia to make rare approach to Ireland on Sunday
In what continues to be a historic and very active hurricane season, Hurricane Ophelia has the potential to bring hurricane force wind gusts to Ireland this weekend as it undergoes extratropical...
View ArticleHurricane Ophelia kicks off the Euro wind season with damage to Ireland and...
Rare Ophelia strikes Ireland, damage assessment underway… - Ophelia makes Ireland landfall: transitioned into a powerful extratropical storm on Sunday before making landfall over southwest Ireland on...
View ArticleTS Philippe to Fuel Hurricane Force Wind Gusts in New England
Complex interaction of tropical and extratropical storm systems sets the stage for damage possible in New England tonight and tomorrow. Heavy rainfall for Florida yesterday: Tropical Storm Philippe...
View ArticleWindstorm Herwart hits Central Europe
Europe Windstorm European windstorm is a name given to the strongest extratropical cyclones that occur across the continent of Europe. Deep low pressure areas are relatively common over the North...
View ArticleMount Agung Eruption Update
Overview Mount Agung entered a critical eruption phase in Rendang district, Karangasem regency, Bali, Indonesia on 25 November 2017. Two eruptions were recorded with ash plume reaching a height of...
View ArticleSouthern California Battles Blazes Fueled by Santa Ana Winds
As quickly as the fires descended on Santa Rosa and Napa this past October, in the early morning hours of Tuesday, December 5th, the Thomas Fire burned rapidly out of control into the city of Ventura,...
View ArticleSanta Ana Winds Continue to Fan the Flames in Southern California Wildfires
As was predicted by fire managers and weather forecasters, the Santa Ana winds have not let up since Tuesday. As a consequence, firefighting efforts are being challenged and containment is at a...
View ArticleExtreme Fire Weather Promoting Growth of Thomas Fire
Thomas Fire Containment Still a Challenge: The Thomas Fire has grown significantly over the early part of the week, in large part due to the continual confluence of Santa Ana winds, low fuel moisture...
View ArticleEastern North America ‘superbomb’ winterstorm and weekend Arctic outbreak
Meteorologically speaking, the ‘superbomb’ low pressure system that paralleled the Eastern Seaboard of North America over the past 36 hours is a once in a generation type event. Staying just far...
View ArticleWindstorm Friederike causes damages in Germany and the Netherlands
The European windstorm peril has had an active start of 2018. First there was the windstorm Eleanor (Burglind in Germany) a few days into the new year, which recently was followed by the windstorm...
View ArticleFlooding hits central France along the Seine River
Summary: After the wettest December/January since 1958 according to Meteo France, the Seine River crested on Monday January 29th at 5.84 meters (19.2 feet) causing meaningful flooding in Paris as well...
View ArticleNor’easter conditions bringing wind, flooding and snow to the East Coast
With an estimated 80 million people in it’s path, the winter storm storm that rapidly intensified Friday morning is now bringing extreme rain, wind, snow and surge conditions to Mid-Atlantic and New...
View ArticleStormy pattern for US persists while Europe to ease out of cold & snow
Summary Friday’s nor’easter along the Eastern Seaboard of the US brought exceptional winds to both the Mid-Atlantic and New England, heavy snowfall across interior portions of New England, and near...
View ArticleMaria’s 6 month anniversary of the trek across the Caribbean
On September 19 and 20, Maria tracked across Dominica as a category 5 hurricane and Puerto Rico as a high end category 4 hurricane, becoming the single largest insured loss event of 2017. Additionally,...
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