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

Weather News: Remnants of Arlene prompt tornado warnings in South, Central Indiana: Indy weather/webcams and radar. Also, severe storms moved across Oklahoma Sunday night. More severe weather is possible there Monday: Radar, Watches/warnings, and Weather/webcam images | Regional radar images for Central Plains and South Central Plains, radar summary … For the U.S.: Weather watches/warnings map and U.S. radar and links to live weather/webcam images

Arlene fizzles: Minimal damage was reported after Saturday’s landfall as 60 mph tropical storm.

Tornado tears through Wisconsin, damages 22 homes causing $3.6 million in damage: No one injured near Hammond, 35 miles east of St. Paul.

Wanted: Old weather records for Vermont

SoCal Quake: Magnitude 5.6 Earthquake Rocks Southern Calif.: Info from USGS report puts the quake 20 miles south of Palm Springs [quake map]. Resources: Get live updates for all quakes over M2.5 in the left column of this page. Real-time forecast map… Other maps and quake links are in our National/International page

Earth & Space News: Today’s Astronomy Picture of the Day looks as if it could have been a frame taken from a late 1970′s/early 1980′s Pay TV movie channel’s opening montage. I liked the HBO intro from that time, which started with a giant and bright “HBO” in space and then swooped down over a city (Hollywood?) at night, or something like that… anyway, it seemed very high-tech at the time!

SpaceWeather.com: Going to the Moon? Be careful!

Water in the Great Salt Lake begins rising again after years of drought

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Saturday: 1. Oklahoma City 2. Indianapolis 3. Kansas City 4. Tulsa 5. Orlando … and on Saturday: 1. Mobile 2. Panama City 3. Amarillo 4. Tampa 5. Orlando … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Tropical Storm Arlene Makes Landfall: Story from WTVJ-TV 6 … Arlene made landfall Saturday afternoon just west of Pensacola, Florida. Arlene’s maximum sustained winds dropped to 60 mph just before landfall, and then to 50 mph just after the center of circulation made landfall. Arlene’s winds remained at about 70 mph throughout Friday night and Saturday morning, but missed becoming a hurricane by 4 mph. High surf, some flooding and isolated tornadoes will be the largest concern from Florida to Louisiana. See warnings and watches for the area and U.S., plus weather and live webcam images for the Mobile-area and the Florida Panhandle

Radars: (NOTE: These are also now in the new “red box” to the right) … Regional | National satellite/radar from CustomWeather

Streaming Video: NBC Weather Plus, WTVJ-TV 6, Miami | Live video updates from WTSP-TV 10, Tampa (when available)

Severe Storms: Thunderstorms are breaking out this afternoon in the Northern Plains and are expected in parts of Texas/Oklahoma: National Weather Service watches and warnings map and U.S. satellite/radar

Earth & Space News: Western Mexico’s Volcano of Fire erupts | Hubble telescope to view comet collision

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Friday: 1. Tampa 2. Miami 3. Kansas City 4. Wichita 5. Cape Coral/Fort Myers … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Arlene Swirls Closer To Northern Gulf Coast: Tropical Storm Arlene enters Gulf of Mexico: The storm could dump more than 7 inches of rain in South and Central Florida … Resources: Regional radar | National Weather Service watches/warnings map | Live Weather Plus video stream from WTVJ-TV 6, Miami | Latest stories on Google News wire

New Location For Auto-Updating Feed Of Tropical Storm/Hurricane Data: I probably don’t need to mention the new location of the data feed from the Tropical Prediction Center (it’s hard to miss). I hope the red is not too overwhelming, but it is one of the main colors of the hurricane warning flag. Black text would provide the other color, but then it’s almost impossible to read…

On MSNBC: Watch for me on MSNBC’s Connected Coast To Coast this afternoon (5 p.m. ET). I’ll be discussing Arlene and blogging weather events… For MSNBC viewers coming here for the first time, welcome! This blog is an extension of the main WXnation site, which features live weather and webcam images and more for more than 100 cities.

NBC Weather Plus 24/7 Streaming A/V Now On Web Sites In 10 TV Markets: I’ve included them in the appropriate WXnation city pages (under the “Weather Radar” and “Current Conditions” sections), and have placed them all together in the “Live Streaming Radars” section of the SuperSites page. They are as follows (look for Weather Plus icons): Chicago | Cleveland | Dallas | Denver | Miami | Orlando | Philadelphia | Raleigh | Sacramento | San Francisco

Weather News: Storms cause damage in SE Michigan, NE Ohio

Tornado warning issued north of Toronto Thursday

Report: If passed, a bill now before Congress would require the National Weather Service to distribute government generated weather information “in real-time, and without delay” Story

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Thursday: 1. Oklahoma City 2. Orlando 3. Kansas City 4. Tampa 5. St. Louis … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Tropical Storm Arlene forms in Caribbean … Latest stories … Tropical Prediction Center updates/tracks, and Hurricane tracker animation (in new window) … Get the very latest updates from the Tropical Prediction Center in the far-left column of this page.

Other Weather News: NBC-2, Fort Myers featured on Weather Channel “Storm Stories” — Hurricane Charley

Thousands lose power as severe weather hits Kansas City-area

Storm sweep across South Dakota

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

Tornado Warnings In KC-Area: Story from KMBC-TV, KC; Latest National Weather Service watches/warnings map and live weather and webcams

Tropical Depression Forms: Tropical Depression One forms in Gulf Of Mexico … could hit the Northern Gulf Coast by the weekend as a tropical storm 3 day and 5 day track maps

And, a new Fort Worth skyline webcam is now live from KXAS-TV

Blast! Tornado, high winds, hail sweep across Wisconsin

Tornado damages East Texas town

Zap! D.C.-area storms leave 25,000 in the dark

After flooding in the Deep South, flooding is reported way up there

Boom! “There was no electricity…” and 9 months later, the baby boom begins.

When the time comes to name my child, Penn Jillette of Penn & Teller has now opened the door for me to consider the middle name “StormChaser” … that way if my child is pulled over for speeding during stormy weather, he or she can say, “But officer, I’m just doing my job, my middle name is StormChaser!”

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

Storms Move East: Storms in East delay flights | Monday’s weather summary

Lightning hits 8 in Indiana; man dies in barn collapse

Other Weather News: North Dakota: Town gets about 8 inches of rain in less than 4 hours | Montana: Highway reopens after mudslide, flooding

Crews continue to restore power in Michigan after strong storms

June Not Too Soon: June not too soon for hurricanes: Since 1851, Florida has seen six June hurricanes… and only five July hurricanes.

Rip current deaths a threat

Quake News: Quake shakes southeastern Turkey, injures at least 54

Space Pic: APoD: Galaxies in view: One looks like the symbol for “hurricane”

Lightning In North Texas Sunday Morning: I shot a few minutes of video with my digital camera at about 4 a.m. Sunday, and then freeze-framed these stills (with no image enhancements or alterations) for two different strikes (These look toward the same location as the WXnation Webcam in far north Fort Worth) … images presented chronologically:

Strike #1: (Images link to larger versions in new windows)

Strike #2: (Images link to larger versions in new windows)

Sky over Fort Worth, May 25, 2005: (Image links to larger version in new window)

As always, you can check out the entire WXnation Blog photo gallery

Also, some cool lightning shots are at CapitalWeather

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Monday: 1. New York City 2. Washington, D.C. 3. New Orleans 4. Albany 5. Dallas/Fort Worth … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Stormy Central U.S., Day 2: Michigan storms knock down trees and power lines, cutting power to at least 162,000

Wind gusts of up to 73 mph reported in Dubuque, Iowa, early Sunday. Full story

Tornado hits couple’s home on their 50th wedding anniversary, while another town marks the 50th anniversary of a deadly tornado …

Between the locations of the above stories, thunderstorms produced at least two tornadoes in Oklahoma Saturday

And, ending on a different note … The daylight meteors are coming!

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Sunday: 1. Dallas/Fort Worth 2. Detroit 3. Chicago 4. Grand Rapids 5. Oklahoma City … and Saturday: 1. Kansas City 2. Oklahoma City 3. Chicago 4. Omaha 5. Dallas/Fort Worth. See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Severe Weather Outbreak: Severe storms are firing up over the Central U.S. in a line from Central Texas to Wisconsin. Resources: National Weather Service watches/warnings map; Regional radars and storm radar; live watch maps in the left column of this page; and live radar and webcam images for your city

Other Weather News: SW Florida under flood watch after 10 inches of rain since Tuesday … Resources: Cape Coral/Ft. Myers weather and live webcam images and National Weather Service watches/warnings map

Severe weather hits Denver area. Stories from TheDenverChannel.com and The Denver Post

“Severe storms, funnel clouds, hail, flash flooding, and high mountain snows…must be Colorado!” Read more from Mike’s Weather Blog

Tornado touches down in Central Texas

Storm chasers cast new eye on tornadoes

Hardware stores report huge demand on hurricane sales tax break in Florida

Research paper: Higher temperatures may be shrinking Arctic lakes

International Weather News: Hundreds of people feared dead in China floods

Space & Sky: Astronomy Picture of the Day: First U.S. spacewalk 40 years ago

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Friday: 1. Dallas/Fort Worth 2. Kansas City 3. Denver 4. Oklahoma City 5. Wichita … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Tornado-less May In Tornado Alley-Central: When one thinks of summer weather in Florida, hurricanes might come to mind. And May in Oklahoma: tornadoes. Yet this year, not a single tornado was reported in Oklahoma — a first for the Sooner State for the month of May and any month since official records began in 1950, according to NOAA’s Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. … I live about 75 miles south of the Oklahoma border, and many here in North Texas are wondering where the severe weather was in May. One answer is in this NOAA story

No U.S. Tornado Deaths In April, May: Another amazing story: No one in the United States died in a tornado in April or May, normally two of the three busiest months for twisters. From USAToday.com’s story Tornado numbers far below normal in ’05:

The National Weather Service’s Storm Prediction Center reported Wednesday that only 129 tornadoes struck the USA last month. There were more than 500 in May both last year and in 2003.

Tornadoes in Wyoming? Yep!

Likely tornado in Manitoba

WeatherBug Building Network Of Backyard Reporters: WeatherBug lets anyone forecast from back yard … blog set up for the backyard reporters. You can get info on a wireless personal weather station that will send data from your backyard to WeatherBug here (a review will be posted in this blog in the coming days…)

New NOAA satellite to track storms like no other before it

TN Quake: 4.0 Quake felt across northwest Tennessee Thursday … As always, the quake wire is in the left column of this page.

That’s Hot: Paris Hilton might say that’s hot … Images posted at SpaceWeather.com

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Thursday: 1. Denver 2. West Palm Beach 3. Tampa 4. Miami 5. Orlando … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.

Calif. Landslide: Experts: Wet winter triggered Wednesday’s California landslide … Images and video from KNBC-TV, Los Angeles

New Hurricane Tracker: New hurricane tracker from NOAA and details about the new auto-updating app

Coverage Sparks Storm Stress Syndrome: Hurricane coverage sparks cases of ‘storm stress syndrome’: Crisis Counseling Workers See 20 Percent Increase In Call Volume

Some ’04 hurricane victims remain homeless

U.N.: Caribbean is ill-prepared for hurricanes

24-Hour Weather …. Deep In The Heart Of Texas: San Antonio gets NBC’s Weather Plus

Auroras Abounded In May: Another great aurora image posted at SpaceWeather’s Aurora Gallery

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Wednesday: 1. Dallas/Fort Worth 2. Orlando 3. West Palm Beach 4. Miami 5. Tampa … See the top 20 for May in the right column of our home page.

Atlantic Hurricane Season Begins: Outlook for hurricane season worsens

Image (left): Courtesy NASA. Ivan’s Eye, taken Sept. 11 from an altitude of about 230 miles by Astronaut Mike Fincke on the International Space Station. Click on image for big version … great for your desktop’s background. More images/larger version.

NASA launches new hurricane Web page … Additional hurricane sites are in our National/International page (right column)

Tornado watch for parts of S. Florida until 11 a.m.

Space News: Funding for Moon, Mars projects promised

Strong Storms In Texas: This morning, it’s Central and South Texas and the Houston area … Last night, it was tornado warnings in West Central Texas and storms in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex … DFW radar | Radar 2

Severe weather storm summary radar for S. Texas from Intellicast and Wunderground regional radars

Tuesday Night Storms In Tampa, KC-Area, Along Gulf Coast: Also, storms over Tampa (storm radar); KC-area; and the Gulf Coast

Resources: Live Storm Prediction Center severe weather watches are in the far left column of this page; National satellite/radar and Live weather and webcam images for your city

Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. Amarillo 2. Lubbock 3. Dallas/Fort Worth 4. Oklahoma City 5. Orlando … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.