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RedOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from May 22, 2012: Severe weather was confined to the Northern Plains and also along the Carolina’s through Georgia and parts of Florida. The biggest impacts were large hail and heavy rainfall along with strong wind gusts. Funnel clouds were also spotted in North Dakota. The tropical storm off the East coast has dissipated and also another new area south of Cuba has developed overnight and needs to be watched as it may have...
RedOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from May 18-20, 2012: The tropics became active over the weekend as our first tropical storm of the season formed off the Carolina coast and spent the weekend drifting southward. Indications are that it’s now moving slowly eastward and should then start turning away from land. Friday brought one tornado to the Wyoming region with the majority of our hail reports also coming from the Dakota’s and Minnesota with isolated spots...
Increasing aridity could lead to major problems for societies and ecosystems in already-arid places Warming climate may mean less rainfall for drought-sensitive regions of the Southern Hemisphere, according to results just published by an international research team. Geoscientist Curt Stager of Paul Smith's College in Paul Smiths, N.Y., and colleagues found that rainfall in South Africa during the last 1,400 years was affected by temperature--with more rain falling during cool periods...
RedOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from May 17, 2012: The summer heat arrived along the Gulf Coast as temps soared to near 90 in many places for the first time this year. Yesterday provided a fairly tranquil day as there were no reported tornadoes. The Eastern Shores of Florida had the largest hail yesterday around 1.75 inches in size. Damaging winds were reported in Utah and also over in the Carolinas and the Northeast portion of Florida. Georgia also had several...
RedOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from May 16, 2012: No tornados yesterday across the country. However, there were plenty of damaging wind reports. New York and the Carolinas had the majority of the reports, along with other isolated wind damage reports throughout the US. Large hail the size of 1.5 inches was found in New York State. Other than that, the rest of the hail reports were smaller. Big Story Weather Outlook for May 17: High pressure is in...
RedOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from May 15, 2012: The majority of the severe weather was found along the Carolina coast yesterday, with one isolated tornado report in North Carolina. There was also large hail in the region. In Southwest Texas there were a few reports of hail and wind damage. The chilly weather continues for the North as portions of Northern Minnesota were under frost and freeze watches last night and will be again tonight. Big Story...
Toronto Stock Exchange (Venture) Symbol: "WND" OTCQX Symbol: "WNDEF" Issued and Outstanding: 62,731,056 VANCOUVER, May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - Western Wind Energy Corp. (the "Company" or "Western Wind") is pleased to announce it has executed a Term Sheet with Champlin/GEI Wind Holdings ("CGEI Wind") to acquire the rights and title to a 4,000 MW wind energy development pipeline, with near term projects in Hawaii and Utah. Additional large projects are in California and...
RedOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from May 14, 2012: The first tropical system of the Eastern Pacific formed yesterday and should continue a westward track away from land. Yesterday two tornadoes were reported. The first one was in Eastern Alabama in a fairly rural area only causing damage to a few trees. The second one was a rare tornado as it struck in Eastern New Mexico in a region that usually does not see many tornadoes. Strong winds were reported in the Florida...
RedOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly Big Story Weather from May 11-13, 2012: Saturday was fairly quiet. However, we did see a waterspout off the coast of Florida which made its way on shore causing some damage in the panhandle. On Sunday, the severe weather shifted back into Western Texas and New Mexico with one reported tornado in New Mexico and multiple damaging wind reports in New Mexico and Western Texas. Big Story Weather Outlook for May 14: Low pressure moving into the...
The cyclone that brought about the devastating winds that battered the UK in the great storm of October 1987 was exceptional in both its strength and path across the south of the country. This is the finding of a new study which has analyzed the places where sting jets – an area that develops in some cyclones and causes strong surface winds – appear in the North Atlantic and how often they do so. Presenting their results today, Friday 11 May, in IOP Publishing's journal...
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Air mass thunderstorms are found in marine time tropical air. In short they are also known as MT Thunderstorms. Air mass thunderstorms represent what is known as the common three stage thunderstorm development. This means that an air mass thunderstorm goes through the stages of Cumulus which is represented by the updrafts only being present; secondly it moves into the mature stage where it has both updrafts and downdrafts; finally it goes into the dissipating stage where you see only the...
Orographic thunderstorms are formed when the air is pushed up a mountain side. This type of thunderstorm is found only on the windward side of a mountain range. In the United States we would find these types of thunderstorms on the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains and also on the western slopes of the Appalachians. Things that make this thunderstorm important: First of all they only form in certain geographical places on the earth as mentioned above. But they can form anywhere in the...
Say it’s not so, but we could be very well on the verge of entering into an EL-Nino cycle soon. How soon? The latest forecast issued by the Climate Prediction Center has upped the chances of seeing EL-Nino this year now at 61% with the favorable time period pointing towards the 3rd quarter (July-September). What does this mean to you? Well it all depends on where you’re living as EL-Nino has a wide array of impacts that are different everywhere around the globe. Here are a few...
ENSO has an impact on the severe weather across the United States. As we look at the above graph we see that the area of Baltimore is impacted by ENSO and its tornado count. The stats are for the described years to the left of each bar. During a La-Nina the tornado count picks up for the region; within 50 miles of the city up to 9 tornadoes occurred during the 2000 event. The 2010 EL-Nino set into the region and the tornado count dropped to around 4 tornadoes within 50 miles of the...
Three big weather events from this past weekend included the heat wave and also the severe weather that struck. First, the heat that is being, and has been, felt in the Southern Plains is on the average of 10-15 degrees above the average for many places, along with that is the Heat Index values that have been surpassing the 100-110 range. The second big impact of the weekend was the severe weather that went through PA/NY/NJ where there were confirmed tornadoes and the damage has put...
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