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Well as many of you know some moments in life stay with us forever. Such was one morning for me in April 1974. I was at the University o...

After having debuted it in 2006 and then followed up with another one in 2007, I figure it's time for what has now become the third annual...

Did you see highlights of the NFL game at Buffalo, NY on Sunday with winds tipping one goal post? Winds turned the trajectory of a field ...

*** Update on December 23 -- the forecast below has worked out quite well, both in terms of the freezing rain and ice and in terms of elev...

[Monday December 22 update follows original entry.] Looks like a potent night of weather coming up in the Midwest just a few days before...

OK so you love boats, you even bought a sailboat and occasionally venture out on a Saturday or Sunday if the weather looks fine to sail in...

What is up with the early onslaught of winter? As I write this, 34 states have some type of winter weather advisory. Ridiculous! I'm in be...

[Animation of 1999 KW4, a binary near-Earth asteroid observed by Steve Ostro and his collaborators. Source: NASA] My oldest brother St...

The recent storm is one for the ages and the textbooks! On its southwest end, it brought a rare snowstorm to parts of the Gulf Coast on D...

[AP Photo / Brian Lawdermilk] What does that photograph of snow have to do with hurricanes? It's symbolic of the transition now happeni...

Ok, you are probably tired of my slightly technical blogs by now, so here I will tell you a story, one that has stuck with me for the past...

Well for those of you who don't already know it, the Western North Pacific (WPAC) is the most prolific tropical cyclone generation region ...

When I think of a top weather story for 2008 or any period in time I can either measure it by its meteorological significance, or the part...

Many of you weather buffs have probably heard about one of several "basic" necessary, but not sufficient requirements for a tropical cyclo...

At least one EF0 tornado was confirmed and at least one more reported in Florida on Sunday, November 30th. But it was not as bad as it co...

Beginning Monday December 8th, The Weather Channel will be counting down the top ten weather events of 2008. I don't personally know what ...

The weather channel is counting down the top ten weather stories of 2008. While we can't reveal the list (gotta love the suspense), you a...

What a long strange ride it's been! Is that how the saying goes? Regardless, that's how I feel now that the whole Weather Channel Half Ma...

What a crazy weather year it has been. Record cold and snow slammed the Midwest, followed immediately by torrents of spring rain and reco...

DEADLY NOCTURNAL TORNADOES A pair of tornadoes each caused a death in the wee hours of the morning on Saturday November 15 in North Carol...