March is almost over and the region continues to experience the typical swings in weather conditions that move us from winter to summer.
Today (March 29) is a good example of the extremes that can strike the area this time of year.
The next several days are expected to be unsettled but nothing like the extremes experienced [...]
Spring officially got underway last week and so far the weather has been typical. In just a few days time afternoon high temperatures have ranged from the upper 40s into the mid 60s and morning lows have ranged from the mid 20s to near 40. Winds have gusted to nearly 50 mph. We have seen [...]
Spring is here! The new season begins Thursday morning at 1:48 a.m. EDT. This is the Vernal Equinox, the time when the center of the Sun crosses the plane of the Earth’s equator. Several viewers have written to ask why we don’t have equal amounts of day and night on the equinox. In fact, sunrise [...]
The tornado that hit downtown Atlanta has been the top news story this weekend. The incedent brings to mind the question, “…how often do tornadoes strike the central business districts of large cities?”
Jay Kendrick did a little digging and found that the National Weather Service has compiled a partial list that identifies two dozen such [...]
The numbers are in and according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center the 2007-2008 winter months of December through February were the coolest across the U.S. and around the world since 2001.
Across the lower 48 states the average winter temperature was 33.2 degrees farenheit….the 54th coolest since records began in 1895. On the [...]
This year marks the 15th anniversary of the Superstorm of March 1993. The storm, acting more like a hurricane than a blizzard, tracked north from the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall on the Florida panhandle in the early morning of March 13th with wind gusts of 110mph in Franklin County, FL and [...]
As we head for mid March, turn the clocks forward to daylight savings time again and the sun starts to feel a little warmer, snow lovers like me start getting antsy. Time is running out for one last blast of winter! In fact, with the memory of this past weekend’s storm fresh in our minds, [...]
The storm system that produced all of the severe storms in the South and heavy snows in the Midwest finally reached the Mid Atlantic region Saturday. Several clusters of severe thunderstorms developed late in the afternoon. Lightening and thunder reports were minimal. The main feature was wind and hail.
Wind gusts that ranged from 50 to [...]
Low pressure organizing over Texas this morning is expected to redevelop on the central gulf coast Friday and track north along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian mountains Saturday. If the storm stays on this track it will dump a swath of heavy snow from north Texas to northwest Arkansas through western Kentucky, southern [...]
The storm that blew through Maryland Tuesday evening produced a typical variety of March weather. From severe thunderstorms and tornadoes to ice and heavy snow, the eastern 1/3rd of the nation endured some wild weather. The map above shows the severe weather reported to the National Weather Service. There were 271 reports of damaging winds [...]
