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Claudette to Bring Flooding and Possible Tornadoes!
Claudette will move across the South and through the Carolina’s Sunday. Once in the Atlantic Monday Claudette may regain tropical storm strength as it moves off to the Northeast. Along the track this weekend, flooding rains will occur as well as the potential for severe storms and tornadoes along the southern part of the track. […]
Daily Weather Madness: (Sub)Tropical Development and Severe Storms
Happy Weather Thursday! The tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico is starting to become a little better organized this morning and in the next 24 hours we should have a Depression in the Gulf of Mexico. As I have said before, the main impacts will be heavy rains across the South into the Carolina’s […]
Severe Storms Hit Thursday into Saturday…Damaging Winds, Maybe Tornadoes!
A cold front moving through the Ohio Valley into the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic will produce bands of severe storms from Thursday through Saturday. A complex of storms or derecho may develop across northern Iowa late Thursday and plow east into Wisconsin and northern Illinois early Friday. That system will produce widespread wind damage as winds […]
Severe Storms with Large Hail and Damaging Winds this Afternoon and Eve. Baltimore and Washington May Get Hit!
A potent upper level system will move across the eastern Great Lakes this afternoon producing a band of severe storms from New York to West Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic. Indications are that storms will develop this afternoon and hit the Appalachians first with damaging winds, large hail and perhaps a brief tornado. The storms will […]
Tropical System to Form off North Carolina Today
A system that came out of a cluster of thunderstorms is quickly spinning-up this morning off North Carolina. That system has the chance to become a tropical depression or tropical storm later today. Once the system does form, the storm will head into the Atlantic and may graze Atlantic Canada later this week. The storm […]
Locally Severe Storms Sunday Afternoon
A cold front moving across the East will produce a band of heavy thunderstorms from New York to West Virginia Sunday afternoon. Within that band of heavy storms, locally severe storms will occur which can produce damaging winds and large hail. There is a small chance of a quick spin-up tornado with some of the […]
Daily Weather Madness: Storms Explode this Evening…Gulf of Mexico Tropical Potential
Happy Weather Thursday! An explosion of severe storms will hit the Northern Plains this afternoon into tonight. We may see storms that will produce damaging winds, large hail and tornadoes. The storms will start as supercell type thunderstorms but quickly will form into a massive squall line that will move all the way into Wisconsin […]
Daily Weather Madness: Tropics May Get Active. Tornadoes Possible Northern Plains.
The warmth and high humidity will continue the rest of the week but some folks in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic will get some relief from the heat the end of the week as a backdoor cold front moves through and the air comes in off the ocean. In the warm and humid airmass, scattered showers […]
Severe Storms for the Northern Plains, Probably Wind Damage Type Storms
A cold front skirting the Northern Plains will bring severe storms Monday and Tuesday. The storms will be the type to produce damaging wind gusts and large hail. The tornado chance is low but that does not mean that a tornado will not form. The storms will be more numerous Monday afternoon and evening.