Top 40 weather days of 2005; Media: Hurricane Katrina top story of 2005; Katrina hit Gulf Coast as a Category 3, not Cat. 4; Hurricane recovery package stuck in U.S. Senate; Category 5: The yardstick; NYC transit strike: Watch commuters via NYC webcams; Nev. flash flood warning; New round of storms hits Bay Area; Feds again deny tornado aid to Wisc.; Woman, 21, killed by snow truck; La. flurries; Cheney sees Pakistani quake devastation; Winter Solstice tonight; Sunrise by season image; Scientist thinks he’s found Mars wreckage
WXnation.com’s Top 40 Weather Days Of 2005:
Here’s No. 6-10: See the full list, with each day’s major events and links to the original WXnation Wire entries. The Top 40 city pages visited this year are at the bottom of the page, and there are links to the top weather days for 2003 and 2004.
10. Sept. 21: Hurricane Rita now 3rd most intense hurricane recorded in Atlantic Basin; Category 5 approaches Texas; Gov. calls for voluntary evacuations of Texas Coast; Galveston issues mandatory evacuation order Details
9. Dec. 8: Storms bring heavy snow, cold to U.S. heartland Details
8. Oct. 24: Hurricane Wilma makes landfall near Cape Romano, Fla., as major Cat. 3 with 125 mph sustained winds Details
7. Aug. 31: Hurricane Katrina, 3rd day since landfall: Mayor says thousands may be dead in New Orleans, Gov. orders mostly-flooded city abandoned as crisis deepens Details
6. Sept. 24: Hurricane Rita makes landfall as Cat. 3 just east of TX-LA border; Major damage around Lake Charles Details
Katrina Update: Media: Hurricane Katrina top story of 2005 | Hurricane Katrina hit Gulf Coast as a Category 3, not Cat. 4 | Hurricane recovery package stuck in U.S. Senate | “Category Five”: How a hurricane yardstick came to be: An in-depth article from National Geographic News
Commuters On Camera: NYC transit strike … See commuters walking via EarthCam’s streaming Times Square cam (with audio); Cam 4, Cam 9, riotmanhattan.com cam, and the Rockefeller Christmas Tree stream. Many more are in the New York City page
Other Weather News: Reno-area under flash flood warning | Resources: Radar loop | Watches/warnings map | Live weather and webcam images
New round of storms hitting Bay Area
Feds again deny tornado aid to Wisconsin: Officials say tornado damages total $43M
From Montreal, Canada: Woman, 21, killed by snow truck
Snow flurries precede holiday in Shreveport, La.
Quake Wire: Cheney sees Pakistani quake devastation
Space News: The Winter Solstice is tonight (Winter begins at 1:35 a.m. Thursday): Astronomy Pic of the Day: Sunrise by season image
Scientist thinks he’s found Mars wreckage
Top 5 WXnation.com city weather and webcam pages visited on Tuesday: 1. New York City 2. Dallas/Fort Worth 3. Syracuse 4. Toronto 5. Buffalo … See the top 20 so far this month in the center column of our home page.
