Posts Tagged ‘Storm Preparation’

At least 56 people have died in northern India in the aftermath of powerful thunderstorms late Wednesday evening, local time. Times of India, citing All India Radio, described the deadly weather as “severe duststorm, accompanied by rain and thundershowers.”

Drenching rain will inundate portions of the Northeast through at least Thursday, with rainfall totals mimicking that of a tropical storm; this has elevated flood fears in the region. The rain-making storm will be slow to move through Thursday. Counter-clockwise winds around the storm will pinwheel moisture from the northern Caribbean and Bahamas into it, [...]

“If tropical moisture gets drawn into the storm, there’s the potential for some serious problems.” AccuWeather.com meteorologists are concerned about the risk of flooding problems in the Northeast as a rainy weather pattern persists through the balance of the week.

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 [...]

VILONIA, Arkansas—A day after a series of powerful storms in Arkansas killed eight people in flooding and a tornado, residents in several central U.S. states braced Tuesday for a second straight night of violent weather as forecasters again called for twisters to hammer the region. The National Weather Service issued a high risk warning for [...]

Before the Ohio and mid-Mississippi valleys face another outbreak of severe weather on Friday, violent thunderstorms will target Dallas, Oklahoma City and other parts of the southern Plains later today. The severe weather will first ignite this afternoon along a front, threatening the corridor in Texas from San Angelo to Abilene to Dallas-Fort Worth.

High winds whipping eastward from the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday have stirred up blinding dust storms from the Syrian Desert to the heart of Iraq. Triggered by a cold front, winds of 30 to 50 mph, locally stronger, brought visibility to near zero as thick clouds of dust lofted over eastern Syria and Jordan into [...]

Strong thunderstorms will rumble across the Ohio Valley today, signaling the beginning of a stormy weekend across much of the nation’s midsection. This afternoon, cities such as Louisville, Ky., Cincinnati, Ohio, and Charleston, W.Va., could be dealing with thunderstorms capable of causing damage. The threat will be highest along a warm front advancing through northern [...]

An extensive line of severe thunderstorms will ignite along the powerful cold front on Monday, threatening communities from the Ohio and Tennessee valleys to the western Gulf Coast. The cold front that will trigger the severe storms early in the week is the same one bringing the threat of damaging storms from Dallas to Chicago [...]

Winds at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will blow onshore for a time on Friday, local time. The approach of a storm bringing rain and mountain snow to the region will lead to southeasterly winds in the lower atmosphere in and about the site, location on the coast of northeastern Honshu, Japan.