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June 2007 Entries
Another Foot Of Rain in Southeast KS
UPDATE: The NWS precip estimate is out and quotes over 10 inches in several counties over 24 hours.ORIGINAL BLOG ENTRY: It's too early for it to be picked up on Google News yet (as of this blog entry being written...
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Posted on Saturday, June 30, 2007 11:31 AM
My grandfather passed away this week, and in remembering him, I recall all the inspiration from my family that led me to becoming a meteorologist and, in fact, to writing this blog, here today (programming note: The J-SHOW will return...
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Posted on Friday, June 29, 2007 8:18 PM
Intense flooding has occurred this week in the United Kingdom and unfortunately more is expected this weekend as a frontal system approaches.The highest amount quoted in an article by the Daily Express was 4.2 inches (107mm) in 24 hours, which...
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Posted on Friday, June 29, 2007 4:47 PM
From NASA this week... a forest fire scar on Lake Okeechobee, Florida, as seen by satellite...ENLARGE/MORE FROM NASA... This image shows the burn scar left on the landscape by the fire. Captured on June 23, 2007, by the Advanced Spaceborne...
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Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:05 PM
I wanted to point out several educational videos which have recently been created by AccuWeather or its viewers. First, I gave Henry a CD-ROM with our archived educational graphics and he's gone nuts with it, producing an excellent tutorial on...
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Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2007 12:34 PM
UPDATE: Bloomberg.com says that the outage took place from approximately 3:45 to 4:45 PM and affected over 136,000 homes and businesses. Record usage from August last year was not exceeded, but the power company (ConEd) had no word on what...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:48 PM
As noted last night, flooding is occurring in northern Texas and southern Oklahoma. Below is a map showing NOAA's morning 24-hour precipitation estimates for the Marble Falls area, which received the most rain, courtesy AccuWeather SelectWarn, a TV weather display...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:39 PM
Italy has been suffering through an extreme heat wave this week. Google News says that 38 have perished in the European heat wave, factories have been shut down in Italy, Greece reached a record power demand, and many forest fires...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:28 PM
NOTE: This blog entry was written at 9 PM on June 26th. There was an error in the date/time of the blog software. There is some impressive live, on-air footage tonight broadcasting from parts of northern Texas and Oklahoma where...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:27 PM
UPDATE: From the 3 PM Northeast maps of RealFeel temperatures, it looks like southeast Pennsylvania hit 105, but Virginia hit 108. Dew points were as high as 77 in Maryland and 79 in Illinois. The Southeast map of RealFeel temps...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:34 PM
I know it's that time of year folks, but I'm not seeing much on the Tropical Atlantic radar for the next two weeks as far as this afternoon's (12Z) model hype goes. Plains Flooding though, yeah, we've got more of...
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Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 5:15 PM
Despite its "World's Worst Weather" slogan, you might think that the first day of Summer would be a good day to hike Mount Washington, NH [JessePedia]. You'd be wrong. RANDOM MOUNT WASHINGTON PHOTOS FROM OUR PHOTO GALLERY (RELOAD FOR MORE):Brian...
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Posted on Monday, June 25, 2007 1:43 PM
This special edition of the J-SHOW reviews the videos submitted for the AccuWeather.com Video Challenge. A $5000 prize awaits one of these people (believe it or not!). Witness videos even cheesier than from yours truly. ONLY TWO WEEKS LEFT IN...
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Posted on Sunday, June 24, 2007 9:44 PM
A Miami landscaper was killed by an apparent "bolt from the blue", the Miami Herald reports. These lightning bolts, also called "positive giants" strike out away from the storm and land as far as 20 miles away. The article quotes...
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Posted on Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:01 PM
This photo, taken yesterday by the Associated Press,* is the most beautiful Canadian tornado photo I've ever seen.A tornado touches down near Elie, Manitoba [Google Map] on Friday June 22, 2007. At least four homes were destroyed and several others...
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Posted on Saturday, June 23, 2007 2:00 PM
It struck me (no pun intended) today looking at some of my blog entries from last week that I had still not posted quite a bit of information on some recent storms that we've had during this very active June....
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Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:57 PM
The Record Online has some incredible aerial shots of the flooding damage from yesterday's storms in the Catskills. (I posted maps of the rainfall yesterday). The location is Colchester, NY, just slightly north of Roscoe, NY, where FoxNews was showing...
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Posted on Thursday, June 21, 2007 1:38 PM
Several of you have asked to find out more about last night's MCS (Mesoscale Convective System), which AccuWeather believes was classified as an MCC (Mesoscale Convective Complex). On the video blog below I step through the radar animation to see...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 11:02 PM
Blog reader Samantha saw my blog entry last week, noting that the NWS received a report of a tornado in Flintstone, Maryland, which made it to the Associated Press, who said, in part:"A tornado was spotted touching down in the...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 7:26 PM
UPDATE: The NWS has released their gauge-adjusted Doppler estimated precipitation map which indicates that over 10 inches of rain fell in the flooding area in the last 24 hours. Often radar estimates are too high, but neither the Binghamton nor...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:40 PM
I have to take a trip to the Dentist this morning so I'll see you a little later on... here's what's coming today and tomorrow in my blog:1. A new weather book is out in the bookstores and it mentions...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 20, 2007 12:01 PM
When trying to look at the last 100 years of weather data here in the United States, we typically turn to the "official climate record" which is defined by NCDC (the National Climatic Data Center, part of NOAA and the...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 3:42 PM
Observant blog readers may have noticed medium-scale rotation in the group of thunderstorms moving through northeast Mississippi this morning. If I may be so brave as to borrow some terminology from My Buddy Scott [JessePedia], I believe what we're seeing...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 1:08 PM
After writing that headline, I wondered if I was declaring a "Henry and Jesse Alert" (worse than a H&J watch but better than a warning), or if I was simply just stating that Meteo Madness Man (PREMIUM | PRO) and...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:34 AM
I just came back inside and I have to tell you that my eyeballs were burning. Maybe it was the allergies, but the high temperature of 92 here in State College, PA didn't help. Temperatures got up to 99 degrees...
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Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 10:52 PM
Marianne, a frequent blog reader from northern Texas, tipped me off to this situation late this morning. Fox News is now showing aerial footage on-air of severe flooding north of Dallas. Depending on which Doppler Radar you ask, the total...
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Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 5:10 PM
(Sorry, this is a little late, due to severe weather occurring in PA this year...)Pennsylvania has had four major weather events hit on May 31st, a very unlucky day for the state. In 1998, a major severe weather outbreak hit...
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Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 3:55 PM
DISCLAIMER: Opinions in this article are personal observations only and do not represent the opinions of AccuWeather, Inc. (You know it's gonna be a good blog entry when it starts out like that!)We talked a few weeks ago about how...
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Posted on Monday, June 18, 2007 12:52 PM
Today, June 17th, 2007 is the 20th anniversary of lightning striking my house in North Carolina. Along with Hurricane Hugo hitting my house, it was one of a handful of important weather events during my childhood that helped solidify my...
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Posted on Sunday, June 17, 2007 5:31 PM
There's a place where I've never been but suspect I'd want to live, and that is Key West, Florida. But it's not just my tropical connection that draws me there -- check this out.The NWS issued this report yesterday at...
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Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 3:40 PM
In tonight's J-SHOW... Pimp Daddy J preaches about Daddy's Day; a giant grill is held responsible for this week's heat wave in the Southwest; a shout-out to a former Accu employee; Paul Yeager time travels to 1985; Psychic predicts the...
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Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 9:39 PM
Severe thunderstorms occurred Wednesday afternoon in and around Washington, D.C. It was a complicated afternoon of conflicting reports, but I'm here to sort it out. A number of our readers caught some good storm footage and uploaded it to the...
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Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 3:42 PM
I couldn't help but notice the 90's in my AccuWeather.com forecast near the end of the two-week period, so I thought I'd see what the models are saying. 15-Day Temp Graph From AccuWeather.com PlannerABOUT THE HYPE: Use at your own...
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Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 3:25 PM
An article in Scientific American, sent in by blog reader Scott, has debunked the myth that green skies indicate hail in thunderstorms -- kind of. The scientists confirmed the green hue, but found that it had no relationship to the...
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Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 1:40 PM
Between Local Storm Chaser Ron Shawley and myself, we captured over 80 lightning strikes in the last two days (51 from him yesterday evening at Yellow Creek State Park down near Indiana, Pennsylvania [Google Map] and 31 from me Tuesday...
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Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 4:52 PM
More heavy rain fell last night in the Plains, to the tune of 6 inches or more in parts of Northern Oklahoma, according to Doppler and rain gauge radar estimates this morning (see also preliminary Doppler / gauge and Doppler-only...
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Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 12:07 PM
I never thought I'd say this, but I'm almost annoyed by the number of storms which are repeatedly hitting Central Pennsylvania this week! I can't get anything accomplished, including blogging! Henry and I have just returned from chasing again and...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2007 7:21 PM
10 PM -- It's another crazy night of storms here in Central PA -- some surprise fellas developed off of an outflow boundary coming through Centre County, home to AccuWeather HQ and the homes of Henry and myself. Henry and...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2007 11:52 PM
Sunday, I showed you videos from Friday night's storms here in Central Pennsylvania. I'll repeat again what I said on that entry: This may have been the worst storm since I moved to State College 10 years ago. WJAC has...
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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 4:45 PM
UPDATE: Here's a map we've drawn of some of the local river stages:Fortunately, the heavy precip since yesterday morning fell in Nebraska. Note that yesterday morning's NMM Forecast Model [JessePedia] foresaw this, but it had it in the wrong place....
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Posted on Monday, June 11, 2007 3:08 PM
OK folks, I've been busy this weekend but finally here are some videos from Friday night's incredible thunderstorm here in State College, PA. Still photos of lightning, clouds and tree damage, as well as radar & lightning strike maps, will...
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 9:32 PM
UPDATE: A new, higher-resolution image is available.ORIGINAL POST: My Buddy Scott @ SSEC CIMSS [JessePedia] pointed out on his blog that one of the tornadoes in Wisconsin Friday night left a track visible on NASA satellite images Saturday.TORNADO TRACK (SW...
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:14 PM
The Associated Press has brought us* several compelling photos of flooding across the world this weekend:A washed out section of road is seen on the New South Wales central coast 80 kms (48 miles) north of Sydney, Saturday, June 9,...
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Posted on Sunday, June 10, 2007 1:43 PM
In the General Weather forums on WeatherMatrix this week, a couple of interesting posts...First, Chris White (cwhite), who writes a weather blog, posts that he has published a book (with the help of an online book publisher) called "Confessions of...
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Posted on Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:17 PM
UPDATE: 2 AM and the power is back on at my home in State College, PA. I have just begun to take a look at video and photos that I took of this amazing storm. I'm sure much of my...
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Posted on Saturday, June 09, 2007 1:18 AM
In this video blog we go in-depth with the insane temperature and humidity readings we're seeing across the Eastern United States this afternoon. We're talking RealFeel temperatures over 110, dew points almost 80, and actual temperatures at least in the...
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Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 9:16 PM
EXTREME HEAT & HUMIDITY: Blog Entry Coming Soon: Ice cream alert: Due to ridiculous dew points in the 70's, RealFeel temperatures are over 100 in PA, 110 in Virginia already at 1 pm. Pro users click for a live RealFeel...
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Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 4:58 PM
More than one of you have asked if it was true that the Rocky Mountains have had considerable snowfall this first week in June. The answer is yes, here's a list of totals from NWS reports (over 9 inches shown):Willow...
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Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 1:52 PM
Answer: Probably. I think this is the best chance of severe weather that we've had in our backyard this year. The SPC has a 5% Tornado Risk out just west of us, which for Pennsylvania, is pretty good.The SPC has...
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Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 1:00 PM
As Henry and I gear up for possible chase time today in Central Pennsylvania, I wanted to take a moment to mention a few beautiful severe weather photographs which have recently been submitted by the AccuWeather.com Weather Photo Gallery users...
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Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 11:45 AM
UPDATE: This article from the Journal Times Online describes the tornado damage and injuries from the Marathon County, Wisconsin. Over 13 tornado reports have come in from Wisconsin, including these (see the StormMatrix links below for details):- HUNDREDS OF TREES...
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Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:05 PM
Extreme rainfall occurred yesterday afternoon in the Kissimmee, Florida area as a series of storms continually reformed over the area (download a Quicktime radar animation). This included the edge of the Disney complex. Rough boundaries of the complex are shown...
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Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2007 6:15 PM
Some miscellaneous updates were done today to previous blog entries. Here's a list: Super Cyclone Gonu in the Arabian Sea: This entry has been updated to include the death of the storm, another photo of the waves in Oman, and...
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Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:02 PM
UPDATE: The SPC has lowered the highest tornado risk from 30% to 15%, but has kept the Severe Storm Risk "High" so we're still looking at a dangerous situation.ORIGINAL POST:The SPC has issued a rare HIGH RISK for severe storms...
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Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:51 AM
I apologize for slowing down on the number of blog postings this week; it's been crazy both here at AccuWeather (where we always have a million projects going) and at home, what with my Birthday, school, exercise (trying to maintain...
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Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2007 11:40 AM
UPDATE: The Jackson Hole Star Tribune has an article and photo of the Gillette, WY tornado.ORIGINAL POST:So far four tornadoes have been reported in Wyoming and South Dakota, as of 10 PM Eastern. And at Eagle, Colorado, a 92 mph...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:59 PM
It's time to prepare for (another) three-day Severe Weather Outbreak that will spawn many tornadoes and a lot of wind and hail. Today, it will be the northern Plains and even southern Canada. It's important to recognize today, outside of...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 12:12 PM
That's right, I said Undular Bore. I didn't know what it was either, until My Buddy Scott @ SSEC's CIMSS, Satellite Interpreter Extraordinaire [JessePedia] enlightened me. It was off the coast of Maine last night, and it was spied by...
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Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2007 11:35 AM
UPDATE 6/7/07: Gonu never came ashore, but is dissipating over water south of the Iranian coastline, according to the JTWC's final statement. NASA posted a a color version of the high-resolution satellite image shown below. They have also posted a...
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Posted on Tuesday, June 05, 2007 2:54 PM
UPDATE 6/4/07: The list of rainfalls below has been updated for NC, VA, NJ, CT, MA, RI, NH, and ME. Atlantic City, NJ and Tannersville, NY were removed because their amounts were exceeded by other stations.ORIGINAL POST: Here's a look...
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Posted on Monday, June 04, 2007 11:54 AM
I finally got around to extracting some still images and video of the lightning that I took on Thursday and Friday evening. I got some decent shots. The three best ones are shown below:The first photo was taken from my...
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Posted on Monday, June 04, 2007 12:00 AM
I decided yesterday afternoon after another storm formed just east of me and stayed still, that I would get off my seat and chase it. Sometimes it takes me a while to remember that chasing storms is fun (and I...
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Posted on Sunday, June 03, 2007 8:51 PM
Locations in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania suffered through a 4-hour thunderstorm Saturday and I've got some interesting radar clips showing multiple outflow boundaries (which we discussed during the Phoenix Dust Storm last month) interacting to increase the storm's intensity. A severe...
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Posted on Sunday, June 03, 2007 8:00 PM
UPDATE: Buoy 41025 off Cape Hatteras has reported waves of 18 feet.ORIGINAL POST:Here's an overview of the wind gusts and low pressures we've seen so far with Tropical Storm Barry or his remnants. Not surprisingly, the highest winds north of...
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Posted on Sunday, June 03, 2007 2:26 PM
"If you ask yourself what you're doin' and there's no reply... get outside."--Robert PalmerThe birthday edition of the J-SHOW is in effect, and afterwards are a couple of choice bloopers from Henry and myself. I'm planning on celebrating by taking...
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Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 5:11 PM
As Tropical Storm Barry moves out of the state, having provided up to 8 inches of rain to help quell the Florida drought, Alabama residents sigh about missing the beneficial rain. These incredible AP Photos* were taken in Florida last...
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Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 3:47 PM
UPDATE: Barry has been downgraded to a Tropical Depression as of 11 AM. AccuWeather.com Weather Photo Gallery photographer ftogf shares this photo of blue sky and clouds, saying "Tropical Storm Barry gave us some much needed, 1.9 inches, rain, no...
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Posted on Saturday, June 02, 2007 2:01 PM
I don't mean at all to take anything away from tonight's important stories of the declaration of Tropical Storm Barry or the damaging tornadoes in Iowa/Illinois/Wisconsin, but you've got to check out this awesome supercell marching across Texas this afternoon...
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Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 10:54 PM
In a surprise move, The NHC [JessePedia] has declared Tropical Storm Barry in the Gulf of Mexico this Friday afternoon. According to the radar/satellite map, the storm has covered nearly the entire state of Florida with beneficial rain. Our official...
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Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 9:14 PM
MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING RADAR IMAGES COMING SOON...The Associated Press is reporting that "dozens" of homes have been damaged in Grandview Iowa after a tornado struck there shortly after noon today. Some injuries were also reported. More homes were destroyed and...
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Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 8:37 PM
UPDATE: Tropical Storm Barry has been declared. See this blog entry for additional information.ORIGINAL POST:It's pretty clear to me at lunchtime Friday that we have a tropical cyclone in the Gulf of Mexico today, and I say "Tropical Cyclone" to...
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Posted on Friday, June 01, 2007 4:27 PM
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