Severe weather season will be here sooner than most of us expect. To help keep you safe and give you a better understanding of what makes severe summer weather severe, Saturday evening at 7pm on WROC in Rochester, NY the StormWatch 8 Weather Team will present StormWarn 2009. Here is what you will find. 1) [...]
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WROC StormWatch 8 Special: StormWarn 2009
May 15th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Hail · Lightning · NY Weather · Rochester Weather · Severe Weather · Storms · Thunderstorms · Tornadoes
Dangerous & Potentually Deadly Severe Weather
June 5th, 2008 · No Comments
From the Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma is the following Public Severe Weather Outlook. Through much of the country’s mid-section dangerous severe weather will take place. I will try to have more on this later today, if you live in any of these locations, especially in the red or purple outlined areas PLEASE monitor [...]
Tags: Discussion · Flooding · Forecasting · Lightning · National Weather · Severe Weather · Storms · Thunderstorms · Tornadoes · Weather News
Sadly, Nearly Half of Tornado Victims Died in Cars.
May 13th, 2008 · No Comments
If you didn’t see my Monday post on the deadly tornado outbreak over the Mother’s Day weekend I got a great question from a commenter, Rose: Brian, A question for you….Are these tornado fatalities due to a lack of notification, the public’s apathy toward storm warnings and resulting inaction, the suddenness with which these storms [...]
Tags: Flooding · Lightning · NOAA · National Weather Service · Severe Weather · Storms · Tornadoes · Weather News · Weather Safety · Weather Why's
One of the MOST Amazing Photos I Have Ever Seen
May 12th, 2008 · No Comments
(Photo From National Geographic News from May 6th) May 6, 2008—After 9,000 years of silence, Chile‘s Chaitén volcano (pictured on May 3) is erupting with lava, ash—and lightning (full story). The mingling of lightning and ash seen above may be a “dirty thunderstorm.” The little-understood storms may be sparked when rock fragments, ash, and ice [...]
Tags: Geological Events · Lightning · Severe Weather · Volcanoes
Violent Spring Storms in Texas, Spring Snow to the North
April 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
(I will try to keep this site updated through out the day as severe weather threats change and move into Friday) A strong potent spring storm system will move from West Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas Thursday, through the Ohio Valley Thursday night and toward the western Great Lakes by Friday, sweeping a strong cold [...]
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