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A powerful early winter season storm is spinning up across the 4-corners with a surface low across southeast Colorado. The surface system will gradually lift north-northeastward through Saturday while the upper level support will be slowly track eastward into the lower Mississippi Valley. What does this mean?

also believe that this is why my secret place, which isn't a secret anymore, is standing at the edge of the sea. My favorite time to be there is when a storm is approaching. You see, God has carried me through so many storms in my life. He did not prevent the storms or make them stop. He did not remove me from those storms. In fact, He rode them out with me. Don't get me wrong, there are times when He will stop them or remove you, He does have that power! I felt His presence which is what...

Not a lot to say regarding the weather. It remains quiet in the tropics but don’t put your guard down just yet.

For years, we have been promised more and more bad weather, stronger "Cat-5" storms, and unprecedented spates of tornadoes. But here we are, more than halfway through the 2009 hurricane season, and we have yet to see as much as a Category 1 storm make landfall. There have been tornadoes, but nothing apocalyptic. Where has all the weather gone?

RON ELIAS/SUN HERALD ARCHIVES/1996 Downtown Pass Christain, on the morning of Aug. 18, was a pile of rubble, as proven in this Daily Herald photograph. Some of the remaining buildings would later be destroyed in Katrina, for Pass Christian once again got the high-water mark. “Hurricane Watch Posted” warned the front page of The Daily Herald on Aug. 16, 1969. In a classic twist of irony, the Mississippi Coast newspaper advertised Pass Christian’s Moonlite Drive-In would, in a few days, show the film classic “Gone with the Wind.” That was Saturday. Hurricane Camille struck Sunday night — 40 years...

A stagnant weather pattern is setting up across the Eastern United States and this is going to affect many from the Mississippi Valley through the Mid-South and into the Tennessee Valley by providing waves of rain and t-storms. Some of the waves will include some moderate to heavy rains. So what is exactly going on?

Shuttle Endeavour has been plagued by storms and not able to the launch the last couple of attempts but what will the weather be like for Wednesday's planned launch? Also how are the tropics looking today and when will it cool down in the Plains and southern U.S? These questions are answered in today's weather video briefing. Please take a look.

Severe Thunderstorm Watch WATCH COUNTY NOTIFICATION FOR WATCHES 316/317 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH 732 PM EDT SAT MAY 30 2009 INC029-115-137-155-KYC015-023-037-041-077-081-117-135-161-187-191- 201-OHC001-015-025-061-145-310400- /O.CON.KILN.SV.A.0316.000000T0000Z-090531T0400Z/ SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 316 REMAINS VALID UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT TONIGHT FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS IN INDIANA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 4 COUNTIES IN SOUTHEAST INDIANA DEARBORN OHIO RIPLEY SWITZERLAND IN KENTUCKY THIS WATCH INCLUDES 12 COUNTIES IN NORTHEAST KENTUCKY LEWIS MASON IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY BOONE BRACKEN CAMPBELL CARROLL GALLATIN GRANT KENTON OWEN PENDLETON ROBERTSON IN OHIO THIS WATCH INCLUDES 5 COUNTIES IN SOUTH CENTRAL OHIO ADAMS BROWN SCIOTO IN SOUTHWEST OHIO CLERMONT HAMILTON THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES...

Actually, it was a dark and stormy weekend. On Friday, right after the computer office closed, our tower-broadcast Internet access failed. It remained out until Monday morning. Meanwhile, Michelle and I had two articles each that were on deadline. But that was the easy part. We have a good friend who is an adopted grandmother, named Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey, almost 91 years old. A week ago, she was fine for her age. Thursday she was in the hospital with serious complications from a blood clot. Saturday morning she died. Until an hour before she died, she was conscious and talking...

The heaviest snowfall in 20 years closed thousands of schools and caused transportation chaos up the eastern side of Britain, with London and the surrounding areas the hardest hit. Six million bus passengers were stranded as all London's bus services were halted because of dangerous driving conditions, and almost every subway line was at least partially suspended. Most commuter rail services were also cancelled or seriously delayed, and flights at London's airports were decimated, with both of Heathrow's runways shut, Luton and London City closed, and Gatwick and Stansted flights subject to delays and short-notice cancellations. Similar conditions were reported...

Is the snowstorm back on for this week? I think so, in moderate form. What looked like a monster storm initially, then a storm that was pushed farther out to sea, is now coming back around this morning. So, what happened? Yesterday, I read a theory about a problem with the computer models. It was presented by Meteorologist Henry Margusity from Accuweather. Basically, the impending eruption of Mt. Redoubt in Alaska has diverted intercontinental flights.

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - December 8, 2008 (OWSweather.com) Rare 50 year Arctic Blast Sets Sights On Southern California. With a week away, and a sure sign of things to come, OWSweather.com is making preparations on the server to handle the traffic from this next event. UJEAS is in line with the majority if not all the other models in keeping a near historical arctic air mass into the Southern California region. With a warm November, Southern California is finally ready for cold storms to make their way in. Resort level snow will be likely next week, and in pretty hefty amounts...

Noah Today – Short, Sweet, and oh so truthful.

Rising water from the Cedar River forced the evacuation of a downtown hospital Friday after residents of more than 3,000 homes fled for higher ground. A railroad bridge collapsed, and 100 city blocks were under water. Cedar Rapids was the hardest-hit city in Iowa, where Gov. Chet Culver declared 83 of the state's 99 counties as state disaster areas and nine rivers were at or above historic flood levels. Elsewhere in the upper Midwest, rivers and streams tipping their banks forced evacuations, closed roads, and even threatened drinking water. The hospital's 176 patients, including about 30 patients in a nursing...

INDIANAPOLIS, June 10, 2008 – The Indiana National Guard is preparing to continue a long flood fight across the southern part of the state. Flooding resulted when more than six inches of rain dumped into the Wabash Valley on the evening of June 6 and well into the morning of June 7. Guardsmen and equipment are moving to counties in southwestern Indiana, and officials are working with the county emergency management director to ensure they know the most efficient means of requesting Indiana National Guard support. More than 900 soldiers and airmen from across the state have been activated, and...

CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. — Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit began to aid local and state civil authorities yesterday after storms dumped more than 10 inches of rain on southern central Indiana in less than 24 hours. At the local agencies’ request, the Marines began their assistance around 4 p.m. by providing video and photographs from CH-46E Sea Knight helicopters to the Morgan County Department of Emergency Management. Marines also liaised with Federal Emergency Management Agency representatives for an initial assessment of the damage in the area. Later that night, Marines dispatched two CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters carrying 50...

As hurricane season begins, Democrats in Congress want to nationalize a chunk of the insurance business that covers major storm-damage claims. The proposal -- backed by giant insurers Allstate Corp. and State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., as well as Florida lawmakers -- focuses on "reinsurance," the policies bought by insurers themselves to protect against catastrophic losses. The proposal envisions a taxpayer-financed reinsurance program covering all 50 states, which would essentially backstop the giant insurers in case of disaster. The program could save homeowners roughly $500 apiece in annual premiums in Florida... But environmentalists and other critics ...say lower premiums...

WASHINGTON, May 2, 2008 – National Guard troops are standing by to assist storm-lashed Kansas City, Mo., residents, a Missouri National Guard official said today. “The Missouri National Guard is prepared and ready to support the citizens of Missouri when called,” Army Capt. Tamara Spicer, public affairs officer for the Missouri National Guard, said in a statement. Up to 80 mph winds, rain and hail reportedly pelted areas north of Kansas City last night and early today. The storm uprooted trees, damaged homes and businesses and caused an areawide power outage. There have been no reports of fatalities, but several...

African Dust Storms May Cool Atlantic, Lessen HurricanesAn image, captured on Sept. 4, 2005, by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer aboard NASA's TERRA satellite, shows a massive dust storm (in yellow) blowing off the western coast of Africa over the Atlantic Ocean. Amato Evan, a researcher at the UW-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies, has found a surprising link between hurricane frequency in the Atlantic Ocean and dust storms that periodically rise up from the Sahara desert and move west. Evan and others suggest that such atmospheric dust could be helping to "dampen" brewing hurricanes. (Credit: NASA/courtesy Amato Evan)...

A fierce arctic storm lashed California on Friday, toppling trees, soaking a coastal landscape already charred by wildfires and threatening to paralyze the mountains with deep snow. The northern half of the state was being hit with strong rain, 85-mph wind and heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada, National Weather Service forecaster Andrew Rorke said. In Southern California, the storm was gathering strength off the coast and was expected to strike the region by mid-afternoon, Rorke said. "We're watching it really blossom on satellite," he said. Homeowners rushed to stack sandbags around houses lying below fire-ravaged hillsides in Southern California,...

Californians braced Thursday for back-to-back weekend storms that could bring more than a foot of rain to mudslide-prone canyons denuded by the fall wildfires, dump up to 10 feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada and buffet the state with hurricane-force winds. The first in a trio of storms began with sprinkles along Northern California coast, but the heaviest precipitation - and possibly the most rain Southern California has seen in three years - was expected Friday night and Saturday. Forecasters issued a rare blizzard warning for the Sierra Nevada, with up to 10 feet of snow expected in some...

RENO, Nev. – If everything lines up just right, the Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe ski resorts could be in for some rough but welcome weather in the days ahead. The National Weather Service has issued a special weather statement for the region beginning Thursday through the weekend. Forecasters on Monday predicted snow totals in the range of 5 to 10 feet along the Sierra crest, with about 2 feet around Lake Tahoe. Three storm systems are approaching the region and forecasters said they will be accompanied by strong winds that could create blizzard conditions. Rain is likely at first...

Villahermosa, Mexico (AHN) - Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Friday warned it would take time to rebuild what has been devastated by the non-stop flooding plaguing the country, including the oil industry, which was crippled by the catastrophe. "The storms have forced the closure of three of Mexico's main oil ports, preventing almost all exports and halting a fifth of the country's oil production. It has a strong economic impact" Calderon said in an interview. The storm did not spare the Bay of Campeche, Mexico's main oil producing region and home to more than 100 oil platforms. Overall, the region...

Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Date: August 31, 2007 Global Warming Will Bring Violent Storms And Tornadoes, NASA Predicts Science Daily — NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth's climate warms. Clouds over North America on August 2, 2000, as measured by GOES-11. (Credit: NASA/NOAA)Previous climate model studies have shown that heavy rainstorms will be more common in a warmer climate, but few global models have attempted to simulate the strength of updrafts in these storms. The model developed at NASA's Goddard Institute...

WASHINGTON - As the world warms, the United States will face more severe thunderstorms with deadly lightning, damaging hail and the potential for tornadoes, a trailblazing study by NASA scientists suggests. While other research has warned of broad weather changes on a large scale, like more extreme hurricanes and droughts, the new study predicts even smaller events like thunderstorms will be more dangerous because of global warming. The basic ingredients for whopper U.S. inland storms are likely to be more plentiful in a warmer, moister world, said lead author Tony Del Genio, a NASA research scientist. And when that happens,...

KNIPPA, Texas - Storms dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of Texas on Saturday, stranding more than 170 passengers on an Amtrak train for hours and forcing rescue crews elsewhere to pull at least 50 people to safety. Water covering the tracks in Knippa, about 75 miles west of San Antonio, stopped a westbound Amtrak train carrying 176 passengers around 9 a.m. CDT. Amtrak spokeswoman Vernae Graham said buses were driving the passengers to El Paso, where they were expected to board another train early Sunday.

11 deaths reported as rescue crews struggle to keep up with emergencies. Rain poured down Thursday for the 16th straight day across Texas and Oklahoma, where flash floods and high winds have already killed 11 people. With little relief expected until the Fourth of July, emergency crews were being flown in from other states to help with rescue efforts.

Australia braced for more storms as nine die By Nick Squires in Sydney Last Updated: 1:42am BST 11/06/2007 Australians were braced for more atrocious weather this week after the worst storms in more than 30 years killed nine people and forced the evacuation of thousands of others in the East as swollen rivers cut off towns and farms. During three days of wild weather roads collapsed, cars were washed away with people still inside and a giant freighter was washed ashore by mountainous seas at Newcastle, north of Sydney. John Howard, the prime minister, called it "an immense disaster". The...

If the three most memorable days in your life were Hurricane Landfalls, You may be a Hurricane nut. If you named your three daughters Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, you might be a Hurricane nut. If you remember the Hurricane Andrew anniversary but forget your wedding aniversary, you might be a Hurricane nut. If you're email address is you PM box on Storm2k, you might be a hurricane nut. If when asked when the Battle of New Orleans was you reply "August 29th 2005" You might be a Hurricane nut. If you have more posts then Cycloneye, you might a Hurricane...

Endangered Crane Survives Florida Storms Monday February 5, 2007 2:01 AM By CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press Writer MILWAUKEE (AP) - A whooping crane was spotted alive on Sunday after it was believed killed with 17 others in severe Florida storms, according to an organizer of a migratory project. Organizers received a signal from a transmitter on the young male crane on Saturday night and again on Sunday near where the endangered birds were kept in Citrus County, Fla. Later Sunday, they saw the survivor with two sandhill cranes, said Rachel Levin, a spokeswoman with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service....

Huge storms sweep northern Europe Huge waves pound the port of Wimereux, northern France At least 25 people have been killed as violent storms lashed northern Europe, causing travel chaos across the region. Britain was the worst hit with nine people killed as rain and gusts of up to 99mph (159km/h) swept the country. Hurricane-force winds battering Germany have claimed at least seven lives. The other deaths were reported in France, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. The severe weather has forced hundreds of flight, rail and ferry cancellations and prompted road and school closures. Meteorologists at London's Met Office...

Powerful storms ripped through Central Florida Monday Afternoon destroying mobile homes and toppling trees and injuring at least nine people. Four were serious. At least one of those is critical. The National Weather Service says an F2 tornado tore through the area. Early damage reports say as many as 200 mobile homes in the DeLand area suffered significant damage. For mobile home parks were near the intersection of State Road 11 and U.S. 17. A gas leak forced evacuations. "We took four hurricanes," said one man. "But nothing like this." The Sutton Place Apartments in Daytona Beach were also severely...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. - The 2007 Atlantic hurricane season should have above-average activity, with three major hurricanes and a good chance at least one of them will make landfall, a top hurricane researcher said Friday. Colorado State forecaster William Gray predicted 14 named storms and a total of seven hurricanes next year. He and fellow researcher Philip Klotzbach said there is a 64 percent chance of one of the major hurricanes — with sustained winds of 111 mph or greater — coming ashore. The long-term average probability is 52 percent, they said. Still, they said fewer hurricanes are likely to...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4, 2006 -- Hundreds of National Guardsmen responded over the weekend and today to devastating winter storms in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas, National Guard officials reported. Missouri has 262 Guardsmen on state active duty, removing debris, providing generator support, health and welfare checks, and transportation support. Highways there are much improved, with a few closed by downed power lines and fallen trees, and 198,800 Missouri residences are still without power, officials said. Missouri has reported seven storm-related fatalities to date. As of today, Illinois has no Guardsmen on state active duty, officials said. Over the weekend, 73...

El Nino, one of the most feared names in weather, is back after a three-year absence. Weather scientists say evidence is mounting that El Nino is rising again in the central Pacific, but they say the jury is out on whether the potentially brutal climatic condition will strangle Southern California with torrential rains this coming winter and spring. "El Ninos come in small, medium, large and extra-large sizes," said Bill Patzert, a climatologist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, in a recent telephone interview. And, at this point, the warming pool of water in the Pacific Ocean looks to...

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Storms, floods, mudslides tie up D.C. areaBy MARTY NILAND, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - Flooding from a weekend of heavy rain shut down the Justice Department building, Internal Revenue Service headquarters and the National Archives on Monday, and created a nightmare for commuters with washed-out roads, mud blocking the Capital Beltway and delays on the area's rail lines. District of Columbia officials urged people to avoid the flooded downtown areas. "They need to give us time to make sure everything's OK," said Michelle Pourciau, the acting director of the D.C. Department of Transportation. "We know that more rain is coming ......

Fear is a good thing -- when it comes to hurricanes. "People need to be more afraid than they have been in the past," said Jay Baker, a behavioral geography professor at Florida State University, noting that more frequent, intense storms could become an annual event over the next two decades. Yet with hurricane season starting today, emergency managers worry that residents will instead become overconfident after weathering Hurricane Wilma last October or resigned after dealing with two years of tropical turmoil. "A few years ago, we were talking about hurricane amnesia. Now we're talking about hurricane fatigue," said Max...

Collin County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) Skywarn Spotters were on the job last night when storms went through the Northern cities of Anna and Westminster that produced two tornadoes. At 8:30pm last evening the National Weather Service in Fort Worth alerted our appointed severe weather Assistant Emergency Coordinator (AEC)Ted Best, KD5JEO, of the severe weather potential for Collin County and asked that we activate our spotters. David Patrick, W7DAV, did a outstanding job as our Net Control Station (NCS) for this particular spotter activation. As is usually the case, a separate frequency was used to provide support from our...

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Witnesses say parts of Iowa City sustained heavy damage Thursday night as a tornado swept through the city. The most heavily damaged sections were parts of downtown and south-central Iowa City. Hospitals report about a dozen people injured, with most injuries not being serious. The National Weather Service says the courthouse roof in downtown Iowa City is gone, and that the top two floors of a large concrete and brick building in downtown Iowa City have collapsed. The historic Dairy Queen on Riverside Drive was destroyed. Cars were overturned near Clinton and Burlington Streets. A Menard's...

A very large and powerful storm system will move into the Great Plains, producing a severe weather outbreak this afternoon. Supercell thunderstorms will likely develop in Nebraska/Kansas during the mid afternoon hours and move east during the evening hours. Severe thunderstorms will also initiate from southwestern Missouri to northeastern Texas by early evening. These storms will be capable of producing strong wind gusts, large hail, and numerous tornadoes. People in the above areas need to pay close attention to rapidly changing weather conditions and heed any warnings that are issued for their county. By Friday, this storm system will likely...

Associated PressR ENICK, Mo. - As the winds howled and the tornado sirens blared, friends and family begged Billy and Penny Briscoe to leave their southern Randolph County mobile home. Then the explosion hit. The couple are among at least nine people, including two more in and near the north-central town of Redick, killed by a series of powerful weekend storms that produced tornadoes and damaging hail across Missouri. Nearly 12 hours after the funnel cloud touched down, signs of devastation were widespread Monday morning. The powerful winds blew out car windows, bent telephone poles sideways, uprooted trees and destroyed...

SEDALIA, Mo. - Severe storms across the Midwest packed winds that knocked over airplanes, ripped roofs off homes and spawned tornadoes that killed three people. A twister, which roared up to a half mile wide, killed a woman seeking shelter in her mobile home and displaced about 150 residents in western Missouri on Sunday night, officials said. Six people were injured and two were missing after the tornado cut a path more than 16 miles long through the town of Sedalia, said Rusty Kahrs, Pettis County presiding commissioner. Bobby Ritcheson, 23, said he watched his neighbor die when her mobile...

Atlantic SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT 000 WONT41 KNHC 301605 DSAAT SPECIAL TROPICAL DISTURBANCE STATEMENT NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 1100 AM EST FRI DEC 30 2005 SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THAT AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IN THE EASTERN ATLANTIC HAS DEVELOPED INTO A TROPICAL STORM ABOUT 1000 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHWEST OF THE AZORES. A SPECIAL ADVISORY ON TROPICAL STORM ZETA IS IN PREPARATION AND WILL BE ISSUED IN AN HOUR OR SO. FORECASTER FRANKLIN

SACRAMENTO (AP) - The first in what is expected to be a series of drenching winter storms has prompted flood warnings and swelled Northern California rivers to their highest levels in seven years. Warnings went into effect across the northern half of the state after the first storm swept through Tuesday and Wednesday. Steady downpours and rising rivers led to an evacuation, scattered power outages, and flooded roads and parks. Water district officials in Sacramento closed a flood gate on the American River as a precaution. "It's been several years since we've had this widespread of flooding, and we're not...

This is going to be a bad day for the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys. This could be a record outbreak of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Strong tornadoes are forecast over a large area of the Central United States. I would advise those with family in the area to contact them and warn them to stay abreast of the latest watches and warnings. Storms will be moving extremely fast this morning and into tonight. Long tracked tornadoes are possible with this event. SPC PUBLIC OUTLOOK http://kamala.cod.edu/SPC/latest.wous40.KWNS.html PUBLIC SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 0357 AM CST TUE NOV...

CATEGORY 7: THE END OF THE WORLD begins where "Category 6: Day of Destruction" ended, as the ultimate superstorm continues to build in size. As the disastrous storm gathers even more strength and begins to ravage the rest of the world, FEMA's newly appointed director, Judith Carr (Gershon), has her hands full preparing for a cataclysmic storm in the U.S. Aiding weather forecasters is storm chaser Tommy Tornado (Quaid), convalesced from his near-death experience in the Category 6 storms and ready for more, and Faith Clavell (Doherty), a beautiful, discredited scientist who teams up with Tommy on the ground...

CAMP MABRY, Texas (Sept. 20, 2005) -- Texas Army National Guard personnel will temporarily move equipment from Houston to Austin today in anticipation of Hurricane Rita as other personnel are poised to respond to hurricane Rita. Today at 3 p.m. the sky over Austin will momentarily be the scene of 13 AH-64 Apache helicopters as they fly in from Houston and make Austin Army Aviation Support Facility at Bergstrom International Airport their temporary home.Lt. Col. James T. Kenyon, Texas Army Aviation and Safety director, said they made the decision to move the assets because of the potential hurricane threat to...

A "freak wave" more than 70 feet high slammed a luxury cruise ship steaming for New York yesterday, flooding cabins, injuring passengers and forcing the liner to stop for emergency repairs. The Norwegian Dawn, an opulent ocean liner almost 1,000 feet long, limped into Charleston, S.C., yesterday afternoon after it hit vicious seas in an overnight storm off Florida - then was creamed by the rogue wave after dawn. "[My room] was destroyed by stuff getting thrown all over the place," passenger James Fraley, of Keansburg, N.J., told NBC News before embarking on the 12-hour drive home because he didn't...