Posts Tagged ‘North America’

For the second straight morning, a band of heavy storms moved through the Tampa Bay Area. They brought heavy rain, winds and even caused damage and flooding early Wednesday, though the bulk of the system is moving to northeast of the area, meteorologist Dave Osterberg said. “Most of these storms are continuing to move to [...]

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.

The violent thunderstorm that struck early Wednesday morning caused an estimated $50,000 in damage to the Edmond Public Schools’ athletic facilities, district athletic director Mike Nunley said. Of the damages, an estimated $30,000 came at Edmond North High School, where the play clock on the school’s football field was at a 45-degree angle, trees were [...]

Portions of western and central Massachusetts were cleaning up on Wednesday from powerful storms that prompted a tornado warning in a region still recovering from deadly twisters last month. Tuesday’s storms toppled trees and power lines, knocking out power to thousands. Hail, some of its the size of ping pong balls, damaged homes and cars [...]

Last week’s storms ended Minnesota’s longest stretch of dry weather this summer, and it’s having an impact on Minnesota agriculture. In its weekly crop weather report for the state, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says topsoil moisture supplies are rated 31 surplus, up from 21 percent the previous week. A statewide average of 3.8 days [...]

Six tornadoes — not four — touched down in DeKalb County on April 27, according to information released earlier this week by the National Weather Service. NWS has officially added two more tornadoes to the list of twisters that devastated DeKalb County on April 27. Though much of the damage was on Sand Mountain, where [...]

The Chicago area continued to swelter today, but likely won’t hit a record high and should see 30-degree plunge in temperatures by Thursday after a cold front–with possibly severe thunderstorms–rolls through this evening. By 3 p.m., the second day of hot and humid weather brought temperatures of 94 degrees at O’Hare International Airport, but the [...]

After severe thunderstorms and tornadoes damaged parts of the southern Plains over the weekend, another round of devastating tornadoes is on the way for Tuesday. AccuWeather.com Meteorologists are forecasting that there will be at least 50 tornado reports on Tuesday, many of them across the eastern half of Oklahoma and eastern Kansas.

“I don’t think we’re done counting,” Nixon told The Associated Press, adding, “I still believe that because of the size of the debris and the number of people involved that there are lives to be saved.” Crews found bodies in vehicles the storm had flipped over, torn apart and left crushed like empty cans. Triage [...]

Damage from last week’s tornadoes and storms in Jefferson County, Alabama, which is awash in debt, is far worse than initially thought and will hit the county’s sewer revenue, the county commission president said on Tuesday. The county, saddled with a $3.2 billion sewer bond debt, is struggling to avoid declaring what would be the [...]