A catastrophic tornado outbreak unleashed its fury across several states in the nation’s Heartland this past weekend, leveling neighborhoods and businesses and upending countless lives. The multi-day event produced dozens of tornadoes, some rated as strong as EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, with peak winds over 200 mph. CNN reported, the frenzy started on […]
A storm chaser in Nebraska saw up-close and personal on Friday what it’s like to be affected by the high winds near a tornado. Ben Ahrens shared a clip on X of what appeared to be dash-cam footage from his vehicle showing an 18-wheeler being blown over on the highway in front of him, knocking […]
An onslaught of tornadoes left devastation in their wake as storms slammed Nebraska and Iowa Friday night. The Pottawattamie County town of Minden, Iowa, suffered extensive damage, with about half the town — between 40 and 50 homes — destroyed, the Sheriff’s Office said, according to KETV-TV. Four people in the town were injured. No […]
Severe weather could pound America’s midsection this week, with a risk of thunderstorms and perhaps tornadoes. The Weather Channel said two rounds of damaging storms are coming — Thursday storms that will target Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas, and a second storm Friday that will range as far south as Dallas and as far north […]
Dubai and the United Arab Emirates are working tirelessly to dry out the heaviest rain ever recorded in the region, when a storm unleashed more than a year’s worth of rain in a single day, sparking widespread chaos across the desert nation. Dubai, a city famed for its architectural marvels and bustling international airport, has […]
I very clearly remember that dark cold morning about 1980 driving through the small southwest Missouri town of Reeds Spring. There was a pre-dawn temperature inversion that day, and the warmer air above captured in that Ozark valley great clouds of smoke from the wood stoves heating people’s homes. Wow, I thought. I hope the […]
An event took place in Southeast Texas between the evening of March 15 and the early morning of the 16th that is only now coming to light. As is often the calling card of early spring, some mighty thunderstorms marched their way across the country, dropping tornadoes, drenching rains, and hail of every size in […]
Perhaps she saw it coming. “So why’d you have to rain on my parade?” Taylor Swift sang on “This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” according to the website Genius. The lyrics from her 2017 album “Reputation” are fitting as both the Grammy Awards and a massive downpour approach Los Angeles on a collision […]
The “cone of uncertainty” produced by the National Hurricane Center to forecast the location and ferocity of a tropical storm is getting an update this year to include predictions for inland areas, where wind and flooding are sometimes more treacherous than damage to the coasts. The Miami-based hurricane center said Thursday on the X social […]
A large wave smashed through the doors of a dining hall at a U.S. military base in the Marshall Islands over the weekend, and video of the terrifying event has gone viral on social media. The video was shared on Instagram by Erik D. Hanson, whose bio describes him as a scuba dealer and instructor […]
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