Posts Tagged ‘Hail’

Severe storms are prompting Environment Canada to warn people in Saskatchewan to keep an eye on the sky. Disturbances carrying hail swept through southern parts of the province Sunday and were expected again Monday. Meteorologist Dave Carlson said they were expected to hit eastern areas along the Manitoba boundary from Hudson Bay down to Yorkton.

There are pockets of rain racing around the NE, MW, and into the South. There are a few frontal boundaries draped across the region that will fire again this afternoon, but I think the main area for concern today will be the MW. Plenty of heat and humidity are getting transported northward this morning towards [...]

The Chicago area was slammed with violent storms Wednesday evening, and more rough weather may come later Thursday. You might have been woken up by a rumble of thunder around 4 a.m. CBS 2 Meteorologist Megan Glaros says the culprit is a cluster of strong, but not severe, thunderstorms that passed over several north suburban [...]

Violent weather ripped through the South for a second straight night, killing one person each in Arkansas and Mississippi, damaging dozens of homes in a rural Texas community and causing widespread destruction and injuries across Alabama. The latest round of severe weather Tuesday night and early Wednesday came a day after a series of powerful [...]

The same storm system that spawned tornadoes across northeastern Texas late Sunday is now ripping through the Southeast and mid-Atlantic. Thunderstorms associated with this system battered Allendale, S.C., with baseball-sized hail and areas near Perry, Ga., with golf ball-sized hail Monday afternoon. Roads were littered with trees, power lines and debris in far eastern Tennessee, [...]

Multiple tornadoes caused widespread destruction and flash flooding claimed two lives after severe thunderstorms crossed both portions of the Upper Midwest and Appalachians this past weekend. A series of eight tornado reports occurred in Minnesota Saturday, the majority of which were around the Minneapolis metro area. No injuries were reported. However, an estimated 80,000 people [...]

Cars, houses, and businesses were not the only things hit hard by Sunday’s Oklahoma hailstorm. This Oklahoma City University student thought he could outrun the storm, but he lost this race. Here’s how he escaped serious injury. Click here for Video

Atmospheric conditions will allow locally gusty, drenching thunderstorms with hail into the mid-Atlantic this afternoon and evening. While conditions favorable for very violent thunderstorms and tornadoes is no longer present with the storm that destroyed lives and property in the South this weekend, the same storm system will produce notable, but less intense thunderstorms from [...]

One of the greatest threats for severe weather AccuWeather.com meteorologists have seen this season so far will take shape on the southern Plains over the next couple of days. Tornadoes and window-smashing hail will be among the threats with these thunderstorms. Biggest Threat for Severe Weather: Thursday through Saturday The thunderstorms will develop in response [...]

Water doesn’t necessarily freeze at 0 degrees Celsius and can exist in the atmosphere as a liquid down to temperatures as low as minus 40 Celsius; when it does it is known as supercooled water. As air rises in a large cumulonimbus or thunderhead cloud condensation occurs and all three forms of water are present. [...]