Posts Tagged ‘Forecast’

Coastal residents and oil-rig workers may soon have longer warning when a storm headed in their direction is becoming a hurricane, thanks to a University of Illinois study demonstrating how to use existing satellites to monitor tropical storm dynamics and predict sudden surges in strength. “It’s a really critical piece of information that’s really going [...]

A tranquil start to March for much of the nation will come to an abrupt end by Friday evening, as dangerous thunderstorms, some capable of spawning tornadoes, threaten lives and property once again. “The ingredients will initially come in place across eastern Oklahoma and northeast Texas for severe thunderstorms to develop Friday evening,” said AccuWeather.com [...]

A major and potentially disruptive winter storm will spread snow over much of Japan, including greater Tokyo, on Friday and Saturday. Snow, some heavy, will spread from the west and south over much of Honshu, the biggest island, to eastern Hokkaido in the far north.

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 [...]

Tuesday’s update on Interstate Travel for Thanksgiving Week: A blizzard coming across the West has already closed roads across parts of Idaho. More closures will occur from Nevada to Wyoming into Tuesday night. Poor interstate travel will spread farther east into the Plains Wednesday and Thursday. In some cases, traveling could become a matter of [...]

Tomas is now a hurricane with sustained winds of 80 mph. It continues spreading clouds and thunderstorms over Haiti as swarms of earthquake victims still living in tents scramble to seek sturdy shelter. The worst is yet to come for Haiti, as Tomas makes a close pass to the west of the nation on Friday. [...]

Rain and thunderstorms are making for soggy conditions across the mid-Atlantic today. Despite threats of localized flooding and travel disruptions, the wet weather is needed to ease rainfall shortages. The rain, falling heavily at times, will continue to spread from Virginia to southern New Jersey today. The rain will soak Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Md., Dover, [...]

Chanthu wound into a typhoon shortly before storming ashore in south China near 2 p.m. Thursday, local time, and well before daybreak on Thursday morning, EDT. Landfall was near Wuchuan in southwestern Guangdong, within about 40 miles east of the city of Zhanjiang.

Rounds of severe thunderstorms will continue to threaten to cause damage and interrupt outdoor plans for people from the mid-Atlantic and Northeast into the Plains through Wednesday. Parts of northern North Carolina and Virginia were already being affected Tuesday afternoon. Areas farther west from the Ohio Valley to Kansas will be at risk through tonight. [...]

Following a deadly tornado outbreak in Oklahoma and Kansas on Monday, another round of severe storms will unfold over the Plains beginning tonight. Similar areas that were ravaged by storms on Monday as well as areas farther north and east to perhaps Chicago will be threatened by dangerous storms at midweek. A new storm system [...]