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 […]
It’s amazing what two months of a persistent atmospheric pattern can do in an environment as fragile as the West’s. In 2017, two months of repetitive, fanning atmospheric river events […]
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 […]
Tornado season has cooled down some for the time being, with a giant midlevel trough planted over the central US that’s keeping much of the CONUS unseasonably chilly. The only […]
