Posts under ‘South America’

Residents of the southern Plains are again on alert for wildfires with a dangerous fire situation unfolding. The most extreme fire threat exists over New Mexico and western Texas. Dangerous Fire Situation

The high-powered severe weather outbreak that claimed dozens of lives across the South on Wednesday will finish up business along the Atlantic Seaboard today. While not likely to have the same ferocity of the storms over the middle of the nation in recent days, today’s weather in the East has the potential to do far [...]

PARIS—Experts monitoring weather patterns for any fallout from Japan’s stricken nuclear plant said Tuesday the winds had so far been favorable but they were less confident about the outlook later this week. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said winds on Saturday and Monday – when two blasts occurred at Fukushima – were blowing to the [...]

A nasty storm with a history of producing heavy snow, flooding rain and tornadoes will target the mid-Atlantic and Northeast Thursday into Friday. Heavy snow was reported across Wisconsin and Michigan Wednesday morning while flooding rain fell farther south into the Tennessee Valley. Severe, even tornadic, thunderstorms were rolling through the Gulf Coast states from [...]

The winter storm that buried the southern Plains with heavy snow Tuesday into Wednesday will finally depart the Southeast today, but not before creating slick travel this morning. Snow will continue to spread over the Carolina and Virginia coastline this morning.

A break in the current cold weather pattern is likely approaching for the Plains, Midwest and Northeast. But with a rough winter piling on feet of snow across the United States, will flooding be a problem? The jet stream is anticipated to retreat toward the U.S./Canadian border, bringing warmer temperatures to the northern portion of [...]

While a snowstorm is expected to unfold from the Rockies to the Atlantic Coast this week, there is potential for a severe weather outbreak across the South. Communities from Texas to the Carolinas could be in the path of life-threatening severe storms. A storm that is already being referred to as the Groundhog Day Storm [...]

A storm system will drop several inches of snow today across the Midwest, making for slippery travel in cities such as Milwaukee and Chicago, while areas farther south will have ice. Snow, already falling early this morning over Minnesota and Iowa, will push into Chicago and Milwaukee by the morning commute, expanding east into Michigan [...]

The mid-Atlantic and interior New England may have missed a big snowstorm this weekend, but the storm is all the rage farther east and north this week. The storm that slipped out to sea, sparing the I-95 corridor from Washington, D.C., to New York City, hooked northwestward, slamming Cape Cod and portions of Maine with [...]

The Panama Canal was closed for the third time in its history on Wednesday due to flooding rain. CNN.com reports officials closed the canal when heavy rain forced the water behind the Gatun Dam to rise. The Gatun Dam is located in northern Panama and led to the formation of Lake Gatun, a major section [...]