Fortunately, I was too close to the ocean to be affected by this storm, except for getting soaked by plain rain. There have been some bad ice storms in the area, but I have never seen one quite like this in Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Here is a slideshow of the big ice storm earlier this month. Thousands in Massachusetts and NH and New Hampshire were without power for well over a...
... BE A TROPICAL CYCLONE WHEN IT EMERGES INTO THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA IN ABOUT 3 DAYS. My opinion...it probably did briefly reach 160mph or so earlier today. cieldumort of twc_aficionados also believes so as the system's organization improved sometime after the 155mph measurement by the hurricane hunters. A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued for portions of the southeastern ...
In a Saturday post , I mentioned that based on the historic hurricane track page, only two tropical cyclones have ever made landfall on the Big Island of Hawaii; two tropical depressions. Well I did the same process for Maui, Honolulu and Kauai Counties. Here are the results: Maui County: 1983 Tropical Depression Raymond (landfall in Molokai) 1988 Tropical Depression Gilma (landfall in ...
... islands to experience the brunt of wind with sustained winds of 35-40mph with gusts to 50mph Tuesday and Tuesday night as the center moves overhead as a forecast 40mph tropical storm. Stay tuned to twc_aficionados tomorrow for what could be the start of a crazy few days for the State of Hawaii! Felicia updating page: http://community.livejournal.com/w_coast_weather/766431.html
Better late - Welcome to several new members! Most recently Casey also joined, and wrote up a great intro - thanks again, Casey. Please give her a warm welcome. As you know, twc_aficionados is an all-things-weather LJ community with an extra special focus on our enjoyment of The Weather Channel... whatever that is. For some of us, that is actually the enjoyment of not having Jim ...
Remember the non-rotating wall cloud I saw last Sunday, May 24 at about 6:50 am? It was over Boston harbor, right near Logan Airport. Here's the link, just to refresh your memory. As the day wore on, things got a little more interesting. You will see there was an EF1 tornado in Maine later that day. The picture of the track is behind the cut: Credit: NOAA. Details and pictures here: ...
...www.weather.com/photos/ about 13 hours ago from web # Both L.A. and San Diego getting hammered by heavy rain. http://www.weather.com/outl ... about 13 hours ago from web # Today's western storm becomes tomorrow's Plains' storm. Read about it here: http://www.weather.com/news ... about 14 hours ago from web And of course twc_aficionados and twc_blog are right here, too!