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PHILADELPHIA – A highly unusual weather pattern is bringing critically dangerous wildfire conditions Tuesday to a swath of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic, including the Philadelphia and New Jersey area. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke from multiple blazes already burning across Canada has flooded the region’s skies with renewed haze and poor air quality. A deep and dry layer of air moved into the Great Lakes Monday night and is spreading into parts of the Northeast on Tuesday, dropping the humidity to as low as 25% and bringing a swath of breezy, gusty winds. Meanwhile, an upper-level trough of low pressure is expected...

VIDEOSometime after 4:30 PM EDT on June 20, I heard a lot of thunder outside here in Broward County. When I opened my door to check I was somewhat surprised. Not by the rain clouds above but by the fact that the air felt very dry and warm. This is unusual in that we don't normally feel dry air here in South Florida where humid is the norm. Also of interest was that the wind was quite high gusting up to about 40 mph. When warm dry air rushes up against rain clouds the result is a lot of electricity...

Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Cherokee and Crawford Counties in KS, storms moving E at 40 MPH, 60 MPH gusts. Impacted cities include Pittsburg, Baxter Springs, Frontenac, Columbus, Galena, Gerard, Arma, Cherokee, Weir, Lowell, Sherman, Mulberry, Scammon, Chicopee, Mccune, Franklin, Walnut, West Mineral, Treece, Roseland. This includes I - 44 near mile marker 0. 60 MPH wind gusts, small tree damage and penny size hail. St. Paul, Parsons and Chetopa line say trained weather spotters.

VIDEO As you can see in this video the time between the big flash from the lightning bolt and its thunder is less than a second which means this lightning strike was less than a quarter mile away (sound travels at 5 seconds per mile). This lightning strike hit on August 12, 2019 in Broward County at about 3:30 PM. The strike happened in Broward County Florida at approximately 44th Street and Pine Island Road. I was lucky to get this recording because I was about to quit after recording a series of videos in which the lightning strikes were...

VIDEO Here are several lightning strikes I recorded in Broward County, Florida on August 4, 2019 between the hours of 2 and 3 PM. The thunderstorm was about 10 miles to the south. I repeated each lightning strike in the video and then slowed it down to a quarter speed.

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VIDEO A big thunderstorm is expected to hit Broward County soon. I hope you can join me for this live stream. It is my FIRST live stream and I hope it works out okay.

A passenger jet plunged through the air “like a rollercoaster” after it flew into a thunderstorm, dropping thousands of feet as it was bombarded with strong winds, hail and lightning. “Things were flying. Passengers throwing up. Scariest flight of my life,” said Jesse Esparza, who was aboard the American Airlines flight from San Antonio, New Mexico to Phoenix, Arizona. With its nose and windscreen badly damaged by hail, the plane was forced to divert to El Paso for an emergency landing. “I never thought I’d have to buy in-flight WiFi to message my mum goodbye,” Mr Esparza added. Pictures of...

Pray your power stays on and get ready for some heavy rain, maybe even a thunderstorm or two. That's the second chapter of Ice Storm 2018 as it circles through the Buffalo Niagara region this weekend. As the frontal boundary that brought the ice and sleet to Western New York over the last 18 hours or so treks northward today, the mixed precipitation and freezing rain will change over to all rain, the National Weather Service said. It could be heavy at times.

The huge shape floating above homes and businesses sparked widespread panic as people took to social media to find out if the end of the world was coming. Many in the city of Tyumen in south central Russia believed it was the beginning of a nuclear war. Photos of the ominous mushroom cloud quickly went viral in Russia. Alexander Bogdanov posted a photo on Instagram saying: "World War III has begun. "I photographed it from my window." Another, Oleg Alexeeva, tweeted: "Oh, God save us. What have they done?!!!" While MyraYer posted: "Crazy b******s!!! This is the end." The huge...

A man who snapped photos of a brewing storm last month received a visit Friday from an FBI Agent, inquiring why he would want to take such photos. Michael Galindo explained that he was simply volunteering for the National Weather Service. And FBI Agent David Pileggi seemed to be satisfied with that response. But Galindo was left wondering whether he now has a permanent FBI file. “He told me, ‘you’re not a threat and you are doing a public service but just be careful next time,’” Galindo said in a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime. The problem...

STORM UPDATE 6/30: A line of severe storms packing winds of up to 80 mph has caused extensive damage and widespread power outages in Virginia. Dominion Virginia Power crews are assessing damages and restoring power where safe to do so. We appreciate your patience during this restoration process. Additional details will be provided as they become available.

I think it was an omen. See the video of Obama's Memorial Day Speech getting rained out.

Rain and lightning bring delays to Games Agencies Posted online: Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 1609 hrs IST Beijing, August 14: Heavy rain and lightning badly disrupted Olympic Games action on Thursday with rowing and canoe events put back to Friday and the tennis quarter-finals seriously delayed. The women's semi-finals in the kayak and the double canoe final were put back to Friday after violent storms battered the venue at Shunyi, just to the north of Beijing. Only semi-finals of canoe doubles were completed before weather worsened and schedule was halted for security reasons. The semi-finals of rowing, due to...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MORRISTOWN TN 1241 AM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MORRISTOWN HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... BRADLEY COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE... THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF CLEVELAND... MCMINN COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE... POLK COUNTY IN EAST TENNESSEE... THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...DUCKTOWN...BENTON... * UNTIL 115 AM EDT * AT 1238 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTH...

A cloud-to-ground ligtning strike from a severe thunderstom hit a large gasoline storage tank at the Magellan Petroleum tank farm in Kansas City, igniting 2 million plus gallons of unleaded gasoline, rapidly growing into a huge inferno of flame belching over 200 feet in the air. Local authorities have elected to let the fire burn itself out, which is anticipated to take a day or more. The fire is presently contained to the burning tank. Authorites and company officials feel confident the fire poses no danger to other large storage tanks nearby. Video from local news helicopters shows tank walls...

ABOVE THE STORM: The afternoon sky darkened. Grey clouds billowed to the heavens. Thunder shook the ground and lightning danced overhead. The first droplets of heavy rain were just hitting the ground when the spaceship flew by.... This really happened on Feb. 5th when the International Space Station (ISS) flew over western Africa during an afternoon thunderstorm in Mali:Orbiting Earth 200 miles high at a speed of 17,000 mph, astronauts took the picture using a Nikon D2Xs peering through one of the space station's many windows. It shows an enormous anvil cloud. Anvil clouds form in the tops of thunderstorms...

I'm not a meteorologist, but these storms seem to have re-intensified over the past hour or two. Given the loss of life already due to these storms, I thought a warning in Breaking was warranted. Click on the source link to see a looping radar shot centered on the D.C./PA region.