Hermine’s Damage
Good Chilly Morning everyone! Brrrr it was cold. I can’t seem to get it in my head that summer is kind of over ( not offffcially! ) but it sure feels like. None the less I still busted out my flip...
View ArticleRadar to Detect Tornadoes??? Grand Canyon
A new radar in Puerto Rico maybe able to see tornadoes! The Center for Collaborative Adaptive Sensitive of the Atmosphere, an Engineering Research Center at University of Massachusetts Amherest thinks...
View ArticleTravel Pics, Tornado Count, Forecast
We’ll mark it down as another gorgeous day around the area. Lots sunshine and temps in the mid 60′s, how could we ask for a better fall day? Looking ahead to this week we will see a mini...
View ArticleBusy Tornado Year in Wisconsin
We have been so busy talking about the winter weather I don’t think we have mentioned the tornadoes this week! We saw rare tornadoes in the southern part of the Badger state on Monday. You may...
View ArticleSevere Storms Sunday Night
A “Spring-like” storm is making its way through the Central Plains and the Ohio Valley. It has already spawned warning across several states including Kansas, Missouri, Tennessee and Kentucky. There...
View ArticleWicked Weather Continues
I have been awake since around 1:30 this am and the big story overnight has been related to the weather. We are seeing a massive storm across the Nation’s midsection. This storm is producing severe...
View ArticleStorms of the Century?
Severe storms ripped through the Mid Atlantic today causing a tornadoes to be widespread. There are already 2 deaths being reported today in North Carolina from a twister. This is the same line of...
View ArticleQuantum Discovery, Teleporting Real?
The reports keep coming in,the three day outbreak that lasted from Thursday to Sunday will likely go down in record books. Atleast 43 have been killed, 21 along in North Carolina. The destruction is...
View ArticleAnother City Takes Direct Hit From Twister
Storm Damage in Springfield, MA Photo Courtesy www.syracuse.com The wicked tornado season of 2011 has claimed another victim. But this time it’s not down south or in the Plains. Now New England has...
View ArticleEl Nino? and Plastic, in the Ocean
Before getting into any other subjects, I should bring everyone up to date on the latest El Nino/La Nina trend, which is one of the more important ocean/atmosphere circulations we monitor. The latest...
View ArticleSevere T-storm Outbreak Thursday
While we will be dealing with rain, ice, and some snow through Friday at least we won’t be fighting severe thunderstorms and tornadoes like they may down south. There is a large area with a...
View ArticleU.S. Severe Weather Statistics for 2014 So Far
Through early September the United States has registered 908 tornadoes in 2014. There were 908 tornadoes in all of 2013. For 2012, we had 939 and for 2011, we had a whopping 1691 twisters in...
View ArticleTornadoes, Tornadoes Everywhere
For new readers of the weather blog, allow me to relay some ancient history once again. A few years back, I started a list. It was a list of bad things that were going to happen because of...
View ArticleSevere Weather in Middle of Nation Wed. – Thur.
While some thunderstorms hit southwest Wisconsin around La Crosse Tuesday afternoon with small hail and lightning, a much greater risk of damaging thunderstorms will occur Wednesday and Thursday. A...
View ArticleTornado Fatalities Hits 30 Year Low
In a year filled with negativity, there were some positives in the severe weather department in regards to tornadoes. The United States saw the fewest number of tornado fatalities in 30 years, with...
View ArticleSevere weather outbreak slams the Midwest
Widespread damaging winds, large hail, and some strong tornadoes made for an active afternoon and evening across the region on Monday. As a strong area of low pressure strengthened and lifted north...
View ArticleSevere Weather Spotter Training Schedule
We are rapidly approaching severe thunderstorm season in Wisconsin. Even with all the excellent technology now used to track thunderstorms and tornadoes, trained observers on the ground still play...
View ArticleSpring Recap and A Look Ahead to Summer
We’re 8 days into the month of June, which means we are officially in Meteorological (Climatological) Summer! While the first eight days of the month have been on the warmer side, that wasn’t the case...
View ArticleNo one in the U.S. was killed by a tornado in May or June for only the second...
For the first time since 2005, and for only the second time since record keeping began in 1950, no one was killed by a tornado in the United States in May or June. May and June are the most active...
View ArticleLate Season Severe Weather
It has been a relatively quiet severe weather season across Northcentral Wisconsin so far this year. Only 9 tornadoes have occurred in the state and only one of them was in our viewing area – a weak...
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