Weather & Space News Blog
 since Feb. 2003
 WX - Telegraph abbreviation for weather often used with Morse code
 The Wire - Name once given to the telegraph

Just Short: The 2004-05 rain season comes to an end tonight, and downtown L.A. missed the all-time record by a measly 0.93 of an inch. Full story

Stormy Weather: D.C.-area storms leave thousands in the dark

Storms continue to pound North Dakota | Minnesota under tornado warning Wednesday night | Lightning hits National Weather Service facility

Farmers in Manitoba are watching their crops wash away in barrage after hit by heavy rain. Story

Hurricane News: Hurricane danger up and expected to continue … Bermuda to get Doppler radar by August … NASA examines origins of hurricanes

Bret weakens to tropical depression, leaves 2 dead

Researchers study tallest man-made tsunami

Space News: Columbia investigator OK with NASA

Check out this planetary conjunction photo from historic Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, California

World Of Webcams: Watch Old Faithful erupt on new webcam. The cam link can be found in our Cheyenne, WY and Billings, MT pages

Webcam captures dog-napping of 12 puppies

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday: 1. Minneapolis/St. Paul 2. Indianapolis 3. Boston 4. Washington, D.C. 5. Orlando … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Weather News: Study: New National Weather Service radars are saving lives

Tropical Storm Bret heads for the Coast of Mexico

Eastern Montana hit with rain, hail, tornado Tuesday

Flooding hits Iowa and North Carolina

Tornado pondered in Massachusetts

Google gives users 3-D maps of whole world

Space News: NASA chief optimistic about shuttle launch

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. Indianapolis 2. Columbus 3. Toronto 4. Detroit 5. Fort Wayne … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Weather News: N.D. storms cause high winds, flooding, road closings

The Weather Channel marks anniversary of 1995 Chicago heat wave

Utah fire update

Heat wave in Italy: Minister says one million people at risk

Heat wave alert: Southern Europe bakes

KSDK-TV 5 St. Louis latest to add Weather Plus. See the list of Web sites streaming Weather Plus live in the left column of our Super Sites page

Quake News: Magnitude-4.0 earthquake strikes about 70 miles east of Los Angeles … Get the latest quake data in the left column of this page, and more in the National/Int’l page

Video shows effects of Calif. quake

Space News: Panel says NASA doesn’t meet safety test

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. Minneapolis/St. Paul 2. Orlando 3. Indianapolis 4. New York City 5. Tampa … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Small early-Monday morning update:

Weather News: Flood/severe thunderstorm warnings across Eastern North Dakota, Northern Minnesota

The folks over at CapitalWeather have begun a forecast competition where they will feature a “guest” high temperature forecast and compare it with theirs before issuing a grade. First up, D.C.-TV 9’s Tony Pann.

Space News: Found on Drudge: Why does the moon look so big now?

Off Topic: Story of a bear, a man, a jug and a rope [Thanks Steve Swanson]

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. Boston 2. Milwaukee 3. Atlanta 4. Chicago 5. Minneapolis/St. Paul … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Weather News: That low pressure area is now moving north off the coast of North Carolina. It has wind gusts up to 35 mph, but is not expected to strengthen. Special statement from the National Weather Service. Get plenty of live weather and webcam images for eastern N.C.

Farmer grew claim to fame as ‘Weather Prophet’

CapitalWeather.com links to an in-depth Information Week article about the Santorum Bill. Reining In The National Weather Service

Heat Wave continues in Detroit and Cleveland

NYC weather forecast for Billy Graham’s final appearance at N.Y. Crusade … More weather info and webcams are in our NYC page

Power’s back on to 51,000 hit by blackout in Chicago

World Weather: 2 million evacuated as China flood toll rises to 567

Heat wave has killed more than 400 in Pakistan over past two months

Music festival flood

Weird News: Bird forces Hamptons to cancel July 4 fireworks

Space News: Fireworks likely when NASA blows up comet … Witness the Fourth of July comet collision, that is if you live in a southwestern swath of the Western Hemisphere.

Quake Update: Magnitude 4.8 earthquake hits Northern California just before noon Sunday. Story and preliminary data from USGS. Here is a map and the location:

7 km (4 miles) NNW (348°) from Tahoe Vista, CA
9 km (5 miles) NNW (334°) from Kings Beach, CA
12 km (8 miles) ESE (107°) from Truckee, CA
32 km (20 miles) SW (221°) from Reno, NV
147 km (92 miles) NE (55°) from Sacramento, CA

Live data on the most recent quakes is in the left column of this page. Additional quake resources, including maps, are in our National/International page

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Saturday: 1. Milwaukee 2. Jacksonville 3. Chicago 4. Orlando 5. Toronto … and on Friday: 1. St. Louis 2. Minneapolis/St. Paul 3. Orlando 4. Tampa 5. Vancouver … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Weather News: Hottest day in years for Chicago, while the weather for the 47th Annual Target Fireworks in downtown Detroit Wednesday night is expected to be “muggy and cloudy.” Also, a hot weekend is in store for the Boston area

Check out the current temperatures map from Weather.com

South Carolina readies for active hurricane season … Meanwhile, a subtropical storm may be headed their way this weekend

A new tornado alley in California’s Central Valley?

In Canada: Saskatchewan residents flee flooding

Quake News: Scientists: 10 percent chance of 8.0 earthquake in central U.S. by 2055

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Thursday: 1. Phoenix 2. Orlando3. Miami 4. Tampa 5. West Palm Beach … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Poll finds most Floridians ready for hurricanes

Allstate seeks 28 percent rate increase from Florida homeowners

S. Florida man cleared in hurricane fraud case

Tropical Storm Beatriz churns in Eastern Pacific

Storms follow heatwave in U.K. … Heat arrives in Motor City

Space News: Amazing Astronomy Picture of the Day … Moonrise, Cape Sounion, Greece

Mercury, Venus and Saturn crowd together

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday: 1. New York City 2. Miami 3. Orlando 4. Vancouver 5. Las Vegas … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Strong storms move into NYC-area: Watches/warnings map | Storm tracks | NWS radar. Many additional weather, plus live webcam, images are in our NYC page

High wind in E. Washington, flooding in SW Colorado

Tornadoes, hail hit southern Alberta

NOAA scientists working to improve severe weather forecasts

Rain=more mosquitoes in Florida

Earthquakes hit part of Kentucky: Magnitudes 3.9 and 3.0

Space News: World’s first solar sail spacecraft crashes back to Earth when its booster rocket fails. Full story

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday (and a sweep for the two Canadian cities): 1. Toronto 2. Vancouver 3. Detroit 4. Orlando 5. Tampa … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Storm with 100 mph winds in N. Dakota downs bar, trees, while storms topple trees in Minnesota, and damage Central Iowa homes

From San Diego: Astronomical high tides

Weather causes flight delays at Miami International Airport

Florida’s number 1 weather killer is lightning

Weather.com partners with MLB.com

Space News: Summer solstice today

Launch set for first spacecraft propelled by sunlight

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. Minneapolis/St. Paul 2. Miami 3. Duluth 4. Denver 5. Orlando … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Florida storms trap man in his car

Some parts of Florida see 2 inches of rain, and possibility of more Monday

Tornado touches down, storms leave hundreds without power in S. Manitoba. Story

Flooding follows U.K. storms

Back to the U.S.: The National Weather Service plans to start issuing rip current warnings for lakes Michigan and Huron: Details

Latest city to get NBC’s Weather Plus: Cincinnati, via WLWT-TV 5 … When the station’s weather page begins live streaming (the 11th that I know of online), I’ll add it to the list near the top left column of our Super Sites page

Another moderate aftershock off California coast Sunday

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. Orlando 2. Portland 3. Charlotte 4. Miami 5. West Palm Beach … and Saturday 1. Miami 2. New Orleans 3. West Palm Beach 4. Orlando 5. Boston … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.