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January 2007 Entries
How Much Snow or Ice for YOU?
As you might have guessed from our forecasts, the models are now in agreement that the storm will move off the coast and (for the most part) not affect the Northeast. I-95 Snow Geese: I won't bore you with depressing...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 10:04 PM
UPDATE: See also this blog about Hole-Punch Clouds in Florida in November 2008. So-called "Hole-Punch Clouds" were observed over parts of the southern Mississippi Valley yesterday. Channel 10 KLFY has a series of photos, and the photos below were taken...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 31, 2007 2:11 PM
There is mass confusion amongst the morning Forecast Models [JessePedia], even though this storm is only 3 days away. At this point I couldn't forecast snowfall reliably for any location in the East - we're going to have to wait...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 5:09 PM
Another giant ice block from the sky, or "megacryometeor" [WikiPedia] has crushed a car in Florida yesterday. The NWS said that conditions were not favorable for this type of phenomenon, but others said it couldn't have been a plane either...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:26 PM
Some have you have noted that you have not seen my much-anticipated triumphant return to The J-CAM. This is because I am working at home due to a sinus infection. I hope to return to the office tomorrow or Thursday....
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Posted on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:04 PM
Oh man, I hate posting just before the 12Z FM update comes in. The GFS Forecast Model [JessePedia] changed its tune this morning and now is predicting that the storm will not move straight offshore, but rather turn into a...
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Posted on Monday, January 29, 2007 8:50 PM
I'm still under the weather, no pun intended, so this post will be shorter than usual. Right now, three of the major Forecast Models [JessePedia] are agreeing on the placement of this week's winter storm, but it's further south than...
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Posted on Monday, January 29, 2007 2:57 PM
TMJ4 has a story, photos and video about a local television station truck in Wisconsin which accidentally drove out on a lake and plunged into the ice yesterday. Fortunately the driver managed to escape without injury. The ironic part, which...
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Posted on Monday, January 29, 2007 11:18 AM
What a great headline in the Reuters article about our AccuWeather.com Professional's Joe Bastardi [BIO] (PRO) this week:Muscled meteorologist sees Mother Nature as a FoeThe article is a good read. There are some quotes below:"I love the challenge of trying...
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Posted on Sunday, January 28, 2007 6:14 PM
As many of you know, I returned home sick yesterday from a business trip. As a result, my only post yesterday was the AP Photo, which was really lame, but in my defense, I sacked out for 12 hours after...
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Posted on Sunday, January 28, 2007 4:15 PM
'Nuff said.Snow removal crews work to clear snow from a street in Anchorage, Alaska Thursday Jan. 25, 2007. More than 74 inches (187 cm) of snow that has fallen in Anchorage this winter, above the normal seasonal snowfall of 68...
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Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2007 1:36 AM
Seeing this Today's Worst Weather (PREMIUM | PRO) graphic on our site today reminded me...You may want to check out our latest (updated!) conspiracy page, which includes some "interesting" artwork of yours truely, probably concocted by good ol' Carl who...
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Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 11:59 PM
Forbes says that a federal judge refused to allow State Farm to pay out $50 million to Hurricane Katrina victims this week, citing vague wording in the settlement. State Farm Insurance had agreed to reconsider 35,000 Mississippi families claims which...
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Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 11:55 PM
Our AccuWeather.com's world weather news blog (PREMIUM | PRO) today says:Just to the west of Brisbane, Australia, a tornado lashed the town of Laidley Friday, bringing with it hail as large as 8 inches. The storm last for several minutes...
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Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 9:41 PM
A whiteout during a heavy snow squall likely caused yesterday's 50-car pileup which killed one person on I-90 near Erie, Pennsylania. You can read Google News articles about it here.This site has a tiny photo and Fox News says that...
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Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 2:29 PM
Blog reader Michael says about the Hardiness Maps that I posted yesterday:"I was under the impression the word Hardiness meant the extreme HIGH AND LOW a plant could survive. Many sites in PA,WV,OH & NY set some all time record...
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Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 2:11 PM
According to the AccuWeather weather station and mine at home, it fell to below 5 degrees Fahrenheit this morning in State College Pennsylvania, with a wind chill of -15. This is after an evening of whiteout snow squalls. It looks...
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Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 1:37 PM
On Day 3 of my business trip, my cold contracted yesterday has turned into a full-fledged sinus infection and I didn't sleep much last night. I have another all-day meeting ahead of me today, but the good news is that...
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Posted on Friday, January 26, 2007 12:56 PM
The models are mostly in agreement with each other about the end-of-week storms not merging, with the Northeast continuing to get snow showers and the Southeast separately getting rain. But next week, the GFS has been fairly consistent in showing...
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Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 9:45 PM
UPDATE: The meeting has ended early (3:30 PM). I'll blog a bit before we all head out to dinner. The trip had been going so well... I knew the other shoe (or first shoe?) was about to fall. And sure...
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Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:49 PM
You've probably seen this map before. It's created by the USDA and shows plant hardiness across North America.The Arbor Day foundation updated this map based on 2006 weather data from the government and there are some big changes in their...
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Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 2:07 PM
This year AccuWeather is excited to be the 2007 top corporate sponsor for Make-A-Wish Foundation for Western Pennsylvania. (Make-A-Wish grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy). Our President...
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Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:41 PM
OK folks, here are the photos I took on my trip from Pennsylvania to Kansas yesterday. I have highlighted a few below, but I took a lot more than that, so check out the "ALL" links too. I took about...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 24, 2007 1:52 PM
While I finish some last-minute stuff today before my trip, I leave you with the following awesome weather videos that I have found (or people have emailed me) this week. All of these videos were taken last Wednesday and Thursday,...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:30 PM
As a followup to my post yesterday about Harrisburg, Pennsylvania possibly seeing its latest snow ever, it looks like they just missed it by a day, but the late 1-inch record still could be beat. The NWS said in a...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:11 PM
A final reminder that blogging may be curtailed the rest of this week due to my business trip to our Wichita office (and today while I'm finishing up some last-minute things). On the other hand, if I can find Internet...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:06 PM
Those of you who read my blog on the ad-supported version of AccuWeather.com may have noticed that when I say certain words, such as Wichita (but not Pennsylvania) they get double-underlined with green links, like this:Fear not, but realize that...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 23, 2007 1:04 PM
UPDATE: The NWS website is back up now and here are their (equally dire) predictions: ORIGINAL POST: I just took a look at the forecast for Friday here in State College.That's right, it won't feel any better than -9 F...
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Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 5:26 PM
Not sure how I missed this one -- check out this awesome photo by The Panama News of a waterspout over Panama City, Panama [Google Map] on Christmas Day. They say:It was a waterspout, a small cyclonic windstorm that started...
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Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 4:34 PM
The NWS reports this morning that the "Latest Snowfall" record at Harrisburg [Google Map] still stands:THE LIGHT SNOW THAT OCCURRED ON SUNDAY ONLY AMOUNTED TO A TRACE OF SNOWFALL AT THE HARRISBURG INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT... THEREFORE THE RECORD FOR THE LATEST...
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Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 1:06 PM
Forbes said last week that bad weather is delaying the repair of a major undersea Internet cable serving much of Asia. The cable was damaged during an earthquake near Taiwan on December 26th and many Asian Internet consumers have been...
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Posted on Monday, January 22, 2007 11:41 AM
Here in Central Pennsylvania, there's much talk about the fact that it's late January and we've yet to see a significant snow. But tonight, we have a chance. As I write this, snow is gently falling outside my window (and...
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Posted on Sunday, January 21, 2007 10:52 PM
It looks like the purple line on the map below just might come true this week. My much-feared trip to Wichita, which was cancelled, is now back on the books for this week -- so look out for slow blogging...
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Posted on Sunday, January 21, 2007 4:18 PM
Here's another incredible photo from the Europe storms this week, showing the raw power of the winds. Additional photos were available in my original entry.Incredible European Wind Damage - Jan. 19, 2007 - Electricians repair damaged high-voltage transmission lines near...
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Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 4:24 PM
Just a quick update on some of the snow totals we are seeing this Saturday morning...LAKE-EFFECT (OVER 15 INCHES):Stokes Hill, NY: 17.0"Westernville, NY: 17.0"Holland Patent, NY: 15.5"Point Rock, NY: 15.0"Lake-effect snow will continue today over favored areas.PLAINS (OVER 5 INCHES):Friona,...
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Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:18 PM
There haven't been any recent flooding rains in the Mississippi Valley, but the rivers there are flooding this week. Why? Well, first of all, rivers lag considerably behind local creeks when it comes to flooding. The NWS [JessePedia] says, of...
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Posted on Saturday, January 20, 2007 2:15 PM
Blog reader Julie wrote in today to say: I'm surprised no one has blogged about the flooding in Indiana. I was driving back from Marshall, Il to Cookeville, TN. We had to go over the Wabash River which was in...
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Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 11:11 PM
ZDnet reports this morning that computer hackers are using this week's massive European storm to make their latest virus (called "Storm Worm") even worse by attracting users to an unbelieveable news headline. The email's subject line says:230 dead as storm...
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Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 1:19 PM
Just a couple of quick notes on recent products that we've released. First, we have a toolbar ready for the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 7. It resides permanently in your browser, above the web page and provides a 3-day forecast,...
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Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 1:10 PM
Light snow from a coastal storm and heavier lake-effect snow blanketed much of the Northeast overnight. To see how the storms mixed, check out a 1-day radar loop.GET INVOLVED! ENTER YOUR SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ONLINE with the SnowMatrix! UPLOAD YOUR SNOW...
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Posted on Friday, January 19, 2007 12:53 PM
A wedge of cold air has caused freezing rain and sleet to fall across much of the interior Carolinas overnight, with some snow on the northern fringes of the precipitation shield:MORNING RADAR LOOPAt 8 AM, airport observations confirmed that snow...
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Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 2:37 PM
I was pleasantly surprised at the number and depth of emails that I got regarding heavy sleet storms, after posting an entry stating that I thought that 6 inches of sleet in Missouri was extreme, and I myself had never...
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Posted on Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:31 AM
Icy followups to my earlier article... The El Paso times reports that over 300 miles of Interstate 10 (I-10) in Texas is closed due to ice. Forbes says the death toll has risen to 51 and 400,000 are still without...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 6:02 PM
UPDATE: We have clarified our stance on the chance of snow from this week's storm with the following map:ORIGINAL POST: The cold air is here. Now how about some storms for the East? Here's the Forecast Model [JessePedia] hype. You'll...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:32 PM
Tuesday night, snow and sleet appeared to be widespread across the Deep South, per our radar. ***(VIEW A 6-DAY RADAR LOOP OF THE STORM)***But much of the precipitation was virga (not reaching the ground). The following reports of note occurred...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:38 PM
There was some serious thundersnow and thundersleet (and thunderglaze?) going on Sunday morning in Oklahoma. Check out this Winter Radar / Lightning shot from AccuWeather.com RadarPlus, showing over 800 lightning strikes between 9 and 11 AM local time:LARGER IMAGES: PLAINS...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 7:08 PM
The damage to the California citrus industry is likely to be measured in millions of dollars, and likely a lot of them. More information is available from our Western Experts.Ken Clark (PREMIUM | PRO) says that growers have been spending...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 5:41 PM
Although the radar shows scattered snow and ice across the Deep South, few reports from official stations have confirmed this (as of 9 AM). As you can see from the 5-Day Radar Loop, the Plains and Texas have been plagued...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 16, 2007 2:37 PM
Various types of precipitation have been reported in Texas and Louisiana today. Our radar has indicated mainly sleet with some snow in Texas and snow early changing to sleet late in Louisiana. The precipitation is mixing with rain in many...
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Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 9:02 PM
A quick Winter Storm update... The freezing rain has moved east into Arkansas this morning. THE ICE (PINK) AND SNOW (BLUE) THIS AM (VIEW A 3-DAY RADAR LOOP)Snow and ice is falling in northern New England and southeastern Canada. The...
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Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 2:44 PM
The number of record low temperatures this weekend in Southern California has been pretty impressive. Cities such as Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Sacramento, and Eureka all set record lows. Of note was the record in Los Angeles which also marked the...
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Posted on Monday, January 15, 2007 12:25 PM
THE ICE (PINK) YESTERDAY AT 3 PM (VIEW A 3-DAY RADAR LOOP)Oklahoma was beginning its third round of freezing rain and sleet Sunday morning (as predicted by the NMM model earlier this week, the state was to suffer through three...
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Posted on Sunday, January 14, 2007 2:29 PM
UPDATE:I have added some cities this evening to the list of heavy sleet and ice below. Some power outage reports:Missouri: 200,000 (ColumbiaMissourian)Saint Louis, MO: 125,000 (CNN)Illinois and Missouri: 120,000 (Belleville.com)Springfield, MO: 65,000 (News-Leader)Oklahoma: 40,000 (TulsaWorld)ORIGINAL POST:Four people were killed in...
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Posted on Saturday, January 13, 2007 2:50 PM
The NWS [JessePedia] office in Blacksburg, Virginia issued this "chilling" statement Saturday morning for the mid-Atlantic United States: ...MAJOR LONG-TERM CHANGE IN THE WEATHER PATTERN EXPECTED BEGINNING MONDAY NIGHT... THIS PROLONGED STRETCH OF UNUSUALLY MILD WEATHER IS ABOUT TO END....
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Posted on Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:19 PM
AccuWeather meteorologists occasionally upload photos of winter precipitation at their locations to the Photo Gallery, heck a couple of us even snow chase. But today I received something odd - snow photos from Ken Clark who lives in Southern California....
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Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 4:06 PM
Some of you have written in, noticing a change in the forecast, wondering where the cold air went, and wanting to know if AccuWeather is ready to recant on its promise of extreme cold during the next 30 days.The GFS...
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Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 2:32 PM
Hundreds of meteorologists attending next week's American Meteorological Society 2007 Conference in San Antonio, Texas, could be in for a sleetstorm of historic proportions. The DGEX Forecast Model [JessePedia] predicts heavy sleet to be widespread in central Texas on Monday:And...
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Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 1:56 PM
Thousands are still without power in Nebraska, two weeks after the late December ice storm ravaged parts of the state's power grid. Twenty major transmission lines are still down, according to the Associated Press. KETV has some more info and...
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Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 1:38 PM
Ball Lightning has been created for the third time in a lab. (Last time was in a microwave, which was then attempted by many amateurs, with mostly unimpressive results). Read My Ball Lightning Experiences & Post Yours Read more about...
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Posted on Friday, January 12, 2007 1:09 PM
As a followup to the graph I posted last week, here is the final stats on record reports issued by the NWS [JessePedia] during this warm period (defined as more than 5 record highs per day). The following chart...
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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 6:21 PM
This is going to be a really interesting 5-day period coming up. And by that, I mean "hard to forecast." Normally you'll see a storm system form and slowly evolve its shape as it moves in a general direction, like...
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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:56 PM
NOAA confirmed in a press release yesterday that Global Warming is happening, and is being caused by humans, according to the New York Times and other news agencies. There's hype going on here from both NOAA and the media. Although...
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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 12:49 PM
AccuWeather snow chasers Dave and Chris are at it again. They observed up to 10.5 inches of lake-effect snow on the ground with 3-4 inches falling per hour. Their latest report can be read on our ad-supported site here. Below...
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Posted on Thursday, January 11, 2007 1:49 AM
Some of you asked what evidence we had for issuing the press release about the return (if it was ever here) of winter. While I won't pretend to know what all goes through Joe Bastardi's head as far as climatological...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 6:49 PM
Here are the highest Appalachian snowfall totals by state:Ashland, NC: 8.5"McHenry, MD: 6.0"Mount Storm, WV: 6.0"Tazewell, VA: 4.0"Champion & Indian Head, PA: 3.0"La Follette, TN: 3.0"*Table Rock State Park, SC: Trace*SnowMatrix report. Enter your snowfall reports into a national, sortable...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:01 PM
While I didn't have (nor want) any input into this forecast, I'd just like to say we're really putting our butts on the line this time. Time will tell if we're correct or not. Here's what we're saying:WINTER TO COME...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 7:33 PM
A blog reader from Wenatchee, in central Washington State [Google Maps] wrote in yesterday to question why I didn't include the wind gust from the nearby Mission Ridge [shown as "A" below] weather station. GOOGLE MAPS SHOWS WENATCHEE & MISSION...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:54 PM
It's still coming, folks. The snow from the clipper has fallen on eastern Kentucky and Tennessee but is still on its way to North Carolina and Virginia's mountains. Looking at the Mount Mitchell webcam this morning, I thought there was...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 09, 2007 2:21 PM
The Appalachians are stealing the snow -- I mean, show in the East this week. As a clipper comes through Monday night through Tuesday afternoon, the ground will be covered from the Hazzard Area [JessePedia] up through southwest Pennsylvania, with...
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Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 7:24 PM
Sigh. My business trip to Wichita (that I whined about over the weekend) has been postponed due to the weather and other factors. I can now grit my teeth for another week or two when it will be rescheduled. READ...
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Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 7:03 PM
UPDATE 1/9/07: Minor updates to the list below have been added.The winds have been high in many areas of the United States this weekend, and this will continue through tonight.In Colorado Saturday, the bus pictured below wrecked after high winds...
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Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 12:33 PM
This article at NEWS24.com says that the Viking space probes of 1976-1977 may have not been looking for the kind of conditions that housed life on Mars, and in fact may have accidentally killed evidence of life by pouring water...
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Posted on Monday, January 08, 2007 12:13 PM
OK folks. I have to go out of town this week on a business trip for AccuWeather to our Wichita office. I'll be gone from Wednesday through Saturday inclusive, so it's hard to say how blogging will go, especially on...
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Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2007 2:38 PM
UPDATE: CNN's on-air meteorologist is showing this graph [ARCHIVED] from Avalanche.Org and is saying that the rapid increase in wind prior to the avalanche was "interesting." The Associated Press has uploaded this photo:Colorado Avalanche - Jan. 6, 2007 - Front...
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Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:11 PM
Our our Breaking Weather News Page (PREMIUM | PRO) says:In Allentown, Pa., the record high for today was 60 degrees from 1998; that record did not last one hour past midnight as the temperature rose to 61 degrees by 1...
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Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2007 9:09 PM
This report was just received by the NWS:EIGHT CARS PILED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER AT LIBERTY ELEMENTARY...PICKED UP BY THE WIND. ALSO...METAL AWNING OFF A GARAGE AND A POWER POLE DOWN. A BUILDING AND A FENCE BLOWN OVER NEAR...
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Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 9:33 PM
This photo, taken yesterday by AccuWeather.com Weather Photo Gallery user vaseleco in Draper, Utah, shows that the West is still asserting itself as a player in this year's snow battle:This is my roof from my balcony. I live in a...
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Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 1:29 PM
We talked yesterday about some of the warm readings this weekend, and how they will be record breaking for Saturday but not unprecedented overall. I wanted to add that there have already been over 100 record high reports from the...
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Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 12:40 PM
Just a quick note to check out Meteo Madness Man (PREMIUM | PRO)'s blog from yesterday. In it, he was bold enough to predict the number of days that 62 major cities will see significant snow this season. From his...
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Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 12:36 PM
An unconfirmed tornado in the United Kingdom "swept over Whitegates, Ludham, damaging the roof of the house he was in and throwing wheelie bins in the air." Here in America, we call them Mobile Garbage Bins (MOBs). No, wait, we...
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Posted on Friday, January 05, 2007 12:19 PM
UPDATE: The following photo has been issued by the Associated Press:New Iberia Tornado Damage - Jan. 4, 2007 - This aerial photo from Friday, Jan. 5, 2007, shows roof damage caused near Belair Road and Stephanie Ann Street in New...
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Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 11:15 PM
FOX31 has a spectacular video of space junk streaking through (and lighting up) the night sky over Denver. It looked like a meteor shower, and in fact their meteorologist blamed it on the Quadrantids. The station later found out that...
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Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 5:54 PM
NHC's Director Max Mayfield said some unusual things on his way out of the position today. Normally mild-mannered, Mayfield warned of a coming tropical apocalypse, where a major storm would kill more than 10,000 and leave millions homeless.KATRINA DAMAGE BY...
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Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 2:57 PM
The media's all abuzz about this weekend's heat wave in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast. Here are the maps for Saturday:ACCUWEATHER HIGH TEMPSLook at those 70s creeping up into Virginia, Maryland and Delaware!NWS HIGH TEMPSHere are the stats for Saturday in...
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Posted on Thursday, January 04, 2007 1:14 PM
Bill Gates wrote an interesting article in Scientific American this month. In short, Microsoft has begun aggressively pursuing the consumer robotics industry.IS MICROSOFT THE KEY?Some quotes:...According to the International Federation of Robotics, about two million personal robots were in use...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 5:41 PM
BONUS VIDEO: HIGH-RES, LOW-PROFILE WEBCAM FOR $80And now, for a bonus video: How to make a high-resolution, low profile, cheap (inexpensive) webcam just to prove it can be done. This camera is live and has been running at my house...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 4:26 PM
DISCLAIMER: This blog entry, like all others, is my opinion only and does not represent the opinion of AccuWeather Inc.Slashdot points out that NPR has an interview with a Chicago Tribune reporter in regards to a UFO sighting at O'Hare...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:03 PM
That's right folks, she's a beaut. I got a snowblower for Christmas. As you may recall from the 38below blogs last year, Meteo Madness Man's (PREMIUM | PRO) purchase of a snowblower led to last year's paltry seasonal snow total...
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Posted on Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:26 AM
Technorati ProfileIn addition to my post over the weekend about the snow drought in much of the Northeast, people are talking today over on the WeatherMatrix Forums about the warm December.And it continues this week -- if you look at...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 1:57 PM
A client recently challenged AccuWeather to provide local daily rainfall readings to their publication, challenging the records from the nearby airport. I was more than happy to oblige, and it gave me a chance to install a device coveted by...
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Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 8:42 AM
Sometimes the business world fascinates me. After watching a Mythbusters [JessePedia] episode recently where they compared the power used by various light bulbs, I had noticed a 4-foot "end cap" display at our local Wal-Mart promoting compact fluorescent light bulbs....
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Posted on Tuesday, January 02, 2007 6:46 AM
This week's storm will go down in history as one of the Western greats. It has caused at least 12 deaths (mostly traffic-related) according to this Forbes article, which also states that 15-foot snow drifts were observed in Kansas, and...
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Posted on Monday, January 01, 2007 6:15 PM
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