Tag: weather

KATRINA’S ANNIVERSARY MAY BE MARKED WITH ANOTHER NEW ORLEANS HURRICANE?

This is a story worth paying close attention to.. If you look at the map, check the city of New Orleans.. this forecast is being made for August 28 2014. The same date as another famous hurricane hit, Katrina in 2005. Could this be a repeat? The path looks frighteningly the same.. The factors are obvious subject to change, and a hurricane may not necessarily strike in the same fashion —or strength. But this map encourages negative thoughts about the near future in that area.. Here is another forecast map from the Canadian run.. Again.. the map would portend to show a potential direct eye-wall strike on or near the city of New Orleans.. It would be a definite hope and prayer that these maps unfold as false hits.   Best place to go for amateur coverage of INVEST 96L here..

This is a story worth paying close attention to.. If you look at the map, check the city of New Orleans.. this forecast is being made for August 28 2014. The same date as another famous hurricane hit, Katrina in 2005. Could this be a repeat? The path looks frighteningly the same.. The factors are obvious subject to change, and a hurricane may not necessarily strike in the same fashion —or strength. But this map encourages negative thoughts about the near future in that area..

Here is another forecast map from the Canadian run..

Tornado hits near Boston airport

This is a freak event.. a Tornado occurred on the Northeast side of Boston on Monday–it’s not a place where tornadoes actively occur..

The Weather Channel details the radar images of the tornado as it happened..

It is the first tornado touchdown in the area, records say, since 1950. But interestingly, this is the third time this year Boston received a tornado warning..

The tornado was an EF2 on the scale.. Maximum winds were near 120 mph..

The town of Revere, where the tornado struck, has about 53,000 people.. it’s awfully close to the Boston International Airport–about 16 minutes apart as a matter of fact.

The year (maybe decade) of ‘rare’ weather events are occurring so much.. rarity may not even be an issue anymore..

The biggest tornado ever recorded

This just in from the National Weather Service: The tornado that struck Oklahoma Friday night (and killed 18 people) was the widest ever recorded or observed by the NWS.
The twister that hit into El Reno, OK, was 2.6 miles wide–that is immense.  It rated an EF5 (the same as the EF5 that hit Moore Oklahoma only days before killing 24, and many children) . . 

That means that the deadly Friday night tornado was the widest ever recorded..
And this from the NWS to illustrate it: