Weather & Space News Blog
Bangladesh tornadoes kill at least 66 | Tornadoes becoming more severe
Tornado warnings have been issued in Minnesota this afternoon. Get the latest resources in the Minneapolis/St. Paul and Duluth pages. Additional weather warning links are in yesterday’s entry below and in the National page.
Tornado warnings were issued tonight in northeastern Iowa. The latest radar loop of the region from National Weather Service and Intellicast radar summary show plenty of activity. See the latest warnings by map and in a text list. Weather warning displays are also now in the National/International page (under the right-column ad and at the bottom of the page). Many other resources are in the Midwest city pages…
Expert says tornado outbreak could happen again
Wasn’t today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day [obafgkm_noao.jpg] once accompanied by an annoying high-pitched tone, just after the National Anthem was played at around 1 a.m. on Channel 61?
Closing out today’s entry, I will follow up on the mystery entry at the end of yesterday’s post: “It” was going to be here today, but “it” will have to wait until tomorrow. Rest assured, “it” will be on this Web site soon!
Very fitting that I am adding this while listening to Coast To Coast AM: Weather oddity at Lake O mystifying
From SpaceWeather.com: Earth is about to enter a stream of dusty debris from Comet Thatcher. Sky watchers who wake up before dawn on April 22nd could see as many as 15 meteors per hour. | Comet Bradfield swinging by the sun today
And finally, “it” is coming… “It” will give you an interactive way to track storms across the U.S…. Find out what “it” is soon…
El Nino Weather Pattern Predicted
Wireless weather phone service features ballparks on cellphone displays
Weatherman has unforecast exit
Nearly 500 counties reportedly fail on air quality
NBC has gone Trump Crazy! It was quite a show… The guy who won has a nice name! I wish him and many of the others continued success.
And finally, here in Fort Worth, the Main Street Fort Worth Arts Festival is under way through Sunday. Story and link to more details here. One of the 10-largest arts festivals comes with the promise of good weather (unlike many years past) and follows a study that puts Fort Worth in the Top 10 of most livable large cities. Hopping off the soapbox for my local town now…
Garmin(R) and XM WX Bring Weather Data to Marine Chartplotters
Snow recently fell in parts of the U.S., but Weather spurs fire warning around Billings
Oklahoma: OU set to stream new weather data on Web
Delaware: 8-car pileup blamed on weather
Sometimes it snows in April: Rain, Late-Season Snow Cause Problems In Kentucky
| Spring snow blankets parts of Tennessee | Snow in Kansas | Snow Falls in Northwest Georgia and finally, snow in Texas and western Oklahoma
Weather.com launches PollenCast. I’ve added this to the National/International page.
Helping hands in Iowa for the National Weather Service
Tornado toughed down in Houston area (reportedly now confirmed by National Weather Service) … Related story: Houstonians Clean Up Weekend Weather Damage
From Florida: Stormy Weather Leads To More Than 35 Accidents | Stormy weather rips through the Bay area
Bright comet is approaching the sun!
Astronomy Picture of the Day goes to the Moon
Happy Easter! I hope you had a good day, though chances are it was a little colder or wetter than you’d hoped for. Here in Fort Worth, Texas, a cold wind from the north and a high in the 50s translated to a colder-than-usual Easter weekend…
It was another amazing weekend for Mel Gibson’s “Passion of The Christ,” now at an estimated U.S. gross of $354 million, the eighth, and soon to be seventh, biggest grossing domestic film of all time.
From USAToday: Western Drought Is Worsening
Weather to blame for five-car pileup in SW Houston
25 years ago, a tornado hit Wichita Falls, Texas, killing 42 people and hitting 5,000 homes. 1979 tornado led to safety changes | Many very dramatic photos of the Wichita Falls tornado
In Denver area: April showers turn white
Happy Easter! As Easter approaches, and will be cooler-than-normal for many in the U.S., in chilly weather, Pope leads Good Friday procession prayer in Rome
The WXnation.com Webcam captured some nice shots during a lightning show in Denton, Texas last night. Here is one of many shots where the night sky was lit up. (Click on image for double-sized 640×480 pic). More will appear in the webcam archive in early May:
In webcam news: German ‘Pig Brother’ proves Internet hit | Haunted house leads woman to start ghost Web site in Pa.
And finally, SpaceWeather.com is now live with its new look and as usual, more great wallpaper images reside in its latest aurora gallery
From Fiji: Fijians dead and missing after storm
From Denver: Snowfall of up to 5 inches expected to hit metro area
The truth is out there: Several people reported seeing something in the sky over Roswell, New Mexico. Nope, not a UFO. This time it was a tornado…
From USAToday.com: Seven national parks have unhealthy levels of smog
See a spiral galaxy on the edge in today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
Sirens in north Texas city sound: ‘We had a little weather excitement today’. Meanwhile, about 100 miles away, a test of a new outdoor warning system for Fort Worth finds that not all of the city’s 132 sirens worked…
I’ve just added a new feature to the National/International page: a weather warning box that shows counties across the U.S. which are currently under a weather warning. Clicking into a county opens a new window and details of the warning are inside. It is in the far right column under the skyscraper ad. This feature replaces the Intellicast national radar thumbnail, which was removed since it was launching pop-up ads. I am looking into a good replacement for this…
Here are images of a wall cloud in northeastern Wise County, Texas, taken Tuesday evening from my home in north Fort Worth, about 4 miles south of Alliance Airport. At the time, radar indicated rotation and a tornado warning was issued, though a tornado did not touch down:
The wall cloud is visible just above my neighbor’s chimney at this point
Today in SpaceWeather.com: Aurora warning and International Space Station fly-by image
Weather.com Retools Site, Offers Customized Home Page
NBC 5 users taken to this page can check out all current WXnation Weblog entries in this link
From Mike Wendland’s Web log: The online world will be saddened to know of the sudden death of David Akerley, the creator of the popular news and information side known as The Cyber Paperboy. Akerley was recently featured on NBC Nightly News as a cyber-blogger. I only knew David through e-mail conversations, but he was incredibly kind and will be greatly missed here and throughout the blogging and Internet world.
Severe weather is moving across the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex this evening, with Wise, Parker, Tarrant and Denton counties placed under severe thunderstorm warnings throughout the evening. We had some small hail in far north Fort Worth (nickel-size), but about 15 miles to the northwest, rotation that indicated a tornado was detected by radar in northeastern Wise County. I snapped some pictures of the storm from here and will post them by tomorrow. Here’s a great radar loop of the area from the National Weather Service. Many additional radars and webcams are in the Dallas-Fort Worth page.
Strong Storms Traveling Across Texas Hit Houston; Tornado Watches, Warnings Issued. Get webcam and radar images, and much more in the Houston page.
Flood Death Toll Reaches 34 In Northern Mexico
In Mexico: 29 Dead, Dozens Missing Following Flooding In Piedras Negras
Hail, High Winds Pack Punch In Crystal City, Texas
Deadly wreck blamed on weather in Texas
Technology boosts tornado forecasting
Rainfall breaks record in Albuquerque
21 inches of snow fell in Ohio 17 years ago
Great shot from SpaceWeather.com
Weather.com Expands Health Section, Launches Fitness Forecast
30 years ago, 148 tornadoes swept through 13 states, causing 2,500 miles worth of damage. The 16-hour storm spawned six F-5 touchdowns, and about 20 F-4′s. More details
Tornado outbreak on April 4, 1974 changes things in Alabama. Details | Far into night, tornadoes came one after another | Horror of deadly tornado outbreak still vivid in Alabama town
Kentucky: Memories of tornado remain strong | Technology could have saved lives in 1974
Ohio: Tornado Survivors Remember 30-Years Later
The March 2004 archive for the WXnation Webcam is now online and includes the following pics (click on them for double-sized images):
And finally, as some of you may have noticed, I frequently link to SpaceWeather.com, and they soon will have a new look.
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