New Year’s Live Webcams; Top 15 U.S. Weather Stories Of 2004; Tsunami Death Toll Soars Over 120,000; Stormy Weather Creating Anxiety About America’s Party 2005 In Vegas; New Storm Hits N. Calif.; Weather Reduces Signal Of Radio Station
New Year’s Live Webcams: See EarthCam for plenty of live cam coverage from the U.S. and around the world
Top 15 U.S. Weather Stories Of 2004:
I’ve taken the number of page views to WXnation and added in your votes in the poll to the right and have come up with a list of the Top 15 U.S. weather stories for the year:
1. Hurricane Ivan Approaches U.S. Gulf Coast, Makes Landfall Early In The Morning Along U.S. Gulf Coast, At Least 23 Dead In U.S. By Day’s End, 3 Million Without Power (Sept. 15, 16) Blog entry
2. Hurricane Frances Makes Landfall In Bahamas, Florida After Stalling For Most Of Day Offshore, Then Batters Florida All Day (Sept. 3-5) Blog entry
3. Hurricane Charley Makes Landfall At Port Charlotte, Florida As Category 4 Hurricane, Moves NNE Through State (Aug. 13) Blog entry
4. Hurricane Jeanne Makes Landfall In Exact Same Place As Hurricane Frances Three Weeks Earlier (Sept. 25) Blog entry
5. Snow Storm From New Mexico To Great Lakes: Bitter Cold, Heavy Snow; 20 Inches In Parts Of Indiana, 6 Dead (Dec. 22, 23) Blog entry
6. Snow Storm Hits Half of U.S., Kills 52 From KC To NE After -32-Degree F Wind Chill In Boston (Jan. 25-27) Blog entry
7. Hurricane Gaston Soaks Carolinas (Aug. 30) Blog entry
8. Indianapolis-Area Storms, Tornado Warnings Follow Indy 500 Race (May 30) Blog entry
9. Dallas/Fort Worth-Area Flooding (June 9) Blog entry
10. Midwest Tornadoes: Iowa Town Destroyed; 92 In 1 Day Kill 3 (May 22) Blog entry
11. Dallas/Ft. Worth Gets 5 Inches Of Snow (Feb. 14) Blog entry
12. White Christmas In Parts Of South Texas For First Time (Dec. 25) Blog entry
13. Tornado-Ravaged Illinois Town Remembers 8 Killed (May 3) Blog entry
14. Biggest S.C. Snow In 100 Yrs., 20 Inches In N.C. (Feb. 28) Blog entry
15. (Had to include this “space” weather story): Total Lunar Eclipse; Boston Red Sox Break Curse (Oct. 27) Blog entry
New Year’s News: Stormy Weather Creating Anxiety About America’s Party 2005 In Vegas Resource: Las Vegas Weather/Webcam Images
Lastest On Deadly Tsunami: Tsunami Death Toll Soars Over 120,000 | Images/Videos | Additional Coverage From NYTimes.com (Includes great interactives) | Donate | Much more in yesterday’s entry below…
Other Weather News: New Storm Hits Northern California: Heavy rain battered the region Thursday, cutting power to thousands in the San Francisco Bay area and snarling traffic.
Weather Reduces Signal Of Radio Station
Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Thursday: 1. Reno 2. Los Angeles 3. Sacramento 4. San Diego 5. Dallas-Fort Worth … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
