Posts under ‘Storm History’

Today’s date (on this side of the date line) is causing superstitious people everywhere to be extra cautious. Friday the 13th is not only a popular horror movie franchise, it is also a day infamous for its purported bad luck. While we will withhold our own superstitious beliefs, we took a look in our extensive [...]

The small town of Vivian, S.D., is receiving a lot of recognition after some not-so-ordinary thunderstorms rolled through the central part of the state last Friday and left quite a mark. A 1.9-pound hailstone plummeted to the ground as high winds and ample rain continued to fall last Friday afternoon. The massive hailstone has been [...]

A storm crossing Italy Saturday will rapidly strengthen through the weekend, bringing heavy rain and strong to severe thunderstorms to southeast Europe. Rain, some heavy, will soak areas from Slovenia and Croatia to southern Ukraine. Flash flooding is possible in these areas this weekend.

Year 2009 for the Philippines was a very eventful year. Here is a photo collection of images from the recent Typhoon Ketsana to serve as a memory for generations to come. Click on the pictures to go to the picture database. Pictures courtesy of Flickr.

The 2009 Pacific typhoon season was the period that tropical cyclones formed in the Western Pacific Ocean. The season ran throughout the year during 2009, with most tropical cyclones forming between May and November. The scope of this article is limited to the Pacific Ocean, north of the equator between 100°E and the International Date [...]

2009 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season Summary 2009 will go into the record books as a very uneventful hurricane season, except for late season Ida. The question “why was it so quiet” always arises as a season like this one comes to an end, especially after a series of very active years. Hindsight is sometimes 20/20 [...]