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Henry Margusity on the storms, patterns, and forecasts behind the madness. Subscribers read every post two days before it lands here.

Heavy Rains will Cause Some Flooding Problems
The tropical airmass across the Mid-Atlantic into the New England will feed the heavy rains along the cold front that is pushing east today and Friday. The focus of the heaviest rains will be from central NY into eastern Maryland today. The rains will weaken some tonight into Friday. Many areas will see over an […]

Storm Brings Heavy Rains and Heavy Storms!
A storm over Ohio will gradually move north over the next couple of days. That storm will produce an area of heavy rains across the Ohio Valley into the Appalachians and Ontario today into tomorrow. Some areas will see up to 3 inches of rain and some flooding problems. Along the cold front, severe storms […]

Severe Storms Ahead of Fall Cold Front!
A powerful cold front will be blasting east early this week and will bring a change to much cooler fall-like weather. A band of thunderstorms will occur along the front and the storms may produce damaging winds and hail. As you can see on the simulated radar below, the storms will form into a squall […]

Severe Weather for Minnesota to South Dakota Thursday
A cold front moving into the Northern Plains will produce a band of severe storms across Minnesota into South Dakota Thursday. The storms will form in the afternoon and produce damaging winds and hail. A cluster of storms that might go across northern Minnesota could produce a tornado or two prior to the main band […]

Severe Storms May Produce Damaging Winds, Large Hail and Perhaps a Tornado
A cold front plowing into the warm and humid airmass will produce a band of severe thunderstorms from the Northeast into the Appalachians this afternoon. The storm swill develop this afternoon and will mainly produce large hail and damaging winds. The tornado risk based on soundings and the rotation tracks is pointing toward the Hudson […]

Severe Storms with Hail and Strong Winds Starts this Week
A cold front will gradually come east this week and will produce severe storms. In this case, the storms will produce strong winds and hail. The tornado threat seems low this time with this outbreak. How fast the from comes east Wednesday will depend on the development of the tropical system off the Southeast coast. […]

Weekly Madness! Tropical Weather and Severe Weather the Main Highlights
This week the tropics will be the main highlight as one system will develop in the Gulf of Mexico and the other off the Southeast coast. The system in the Gulf of Mexico may rapidly develop into a tropical storm prior to making it to the Texas coast. If it does get named, the storm […]

Severe Storms for the Northeast to the Mid-Atlantic
A cold front coming through the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic will produce a band of severe storms today. The storms this afternoon will produce damaging winds, hail and perhaps those things that are not called tornadoes anymore. The UD Helicity Swaths product from the HRRR model would suggests that the storms could produce a swath of […]

Weekly Weather Madness Highlights
Happy Weather Sunday! The cold front moving across the East will only produce showers and thunderstorms today, nothing too heavy. We have to wait until the cold front that comes across the Great Lakes into the Northeast this week for severe weather to occur. I think I am ahead of SPC on the potential for […]


