A memorable, widespread episode of flash flooding appears set to occur today across portions of the northern Mid-Atlantic and southern New England as soils and streams left waterlogged by a …

When I wrote about the West’s mega-drought last month, a dire two year dry spell imbedded within a dry two decades had sent much of the West lurching towards exceptional …

This morning, a rather insane meteorological feat was confirmed as tropical storm Elsa became the fifth named system of the 2021 Atlantic hurricane season. This makes Elsa the earliest forming …

I have long been fascinated by extreme atmospheric anomalies, the ‘perfect storms’ that defy climatology and set unfathomable records. Today, as the broiler finally eases on the Seattle/Portland/Vancouver corridor, it …

No pun intended. As anybody who has read my blogs from last week knows, the West exists in a dire stage of historic drought. Dry season is deepening across the …

Heat is pervasive, searing, angry. It swells and crashes over us like waves, smothering and suffocating and crushing. If cold is a knife, heat is a hammer. This week, from …

Some weather disasters strike with a suddenness rivaled only by their ferocity. They are tornadoes, flash floods, derechos, blizzards and hurricanes; they lash out all at once, pummeling mankind from …

Every May, there are a few days that the Plains of the central US see an astonishing feat of nature. As sinking troughs incite low-level mass removal, brisk southerly flow …

A northeastward ejecting southern stream jet streak amidst complex flow aloft will continue a multi-day onslaught of widespread activity, with additional flooding, severe thunderstorms, and tornadoes all probable across much …