A series of strong weather systems are set to hit Northern California starting on Wednesday, and they’re expected to bring about heavy rains and flooding throughout the area for the rest of the week. “Widespread flooding and damaging winds expected from Wednesday afternoon through Thursday as a strong weather system and atmospheric river moves through […]
Meteorologist John Moore, with the National Weather Service, talks about the severe weather set to impact almost the entire United States and affect Christmas travel. He also talks about what to expect if the cold front turns into a bomb cyclone, and what everyone should take into consideration in order to prepare properly.
A significant winter storm is expected to impact a large portion of eastern U.S. regions over the weekend, bringing a variety of weather threats to those areas that include heavy snowfall and severe thunderstorms. The National Weather Service (NWS) said in a statement the storm system will produce weather threats over parts of the Ohio/Tennessee Valleys […]
Confidence is growing that a winter storm with the intensity of a hurricane, snow measured in feet and blizzard-like conditions will impact major Northeast cities this weekend. “The models continue to show a nor’easter with blockbuster potential for the weekend, mainly late Friday through Saturday,” CNN meteorologist Brandon Miller says. There are still questions about […]
You’ve heard meteorologists use the terms “polar vortex” and “bomb cyclone” this year. Now you can add “Central American gyre” to your weather vocabulary. This broad area of low pressure, which formed this weekend, is drifting aimlessly between North and South America. Central American gyres are expansive, slow-moving circulation patterns that typically form at the […]
Winds as strong as those of a tropical storm pummeled New England on Thursday, Oct. 17, as a storm known as a bomb cyclone knocked out power and promised to disrupt travel in the region through the end of the workweek.
Blizzard warnings were posted from Colorado to Minnesota on Wednesday, April 10, and wildfires were a concern in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma as the second so-called “bomb cyclone” storm in less than a month hit the central U.S., raising the prospect of renewed flooding in the already drenched Midwest. Heavy snow disrupted ground and air […]
A video shows high winds from the “bomb cyclone” blowing over an 18-wheeler on a highway in Texas. The video was captured by driver Blake Brown. It showed the truck, traveling in Amarillo, being blown onto its side and sliding across the road. “Oh my God. Oh my God,” Brown can be heard saying as […]
Hopefully everyone has finished clearing the snow which piled up during Winter Storm Grayson, because Grayson’s big brother, Winter Storm Hunter, is fast approaching. Hunter looks to be even bigger than Grayson, bringing freezing rain, then snow, then even colder temperatures than what we experienced after Grayson passed. Hunter is coming from the Canada, across […]
The bitter cold that has gripped much of the United States since the new year will last another day, forecasters said on Sunday, predicting an end to a frigid spell that featured a “bomb cyclone” snowstorm and frozen iguanas falling from trees in Florida. The U.S. Northeast will endure at least one more day of […]
