Canada’s Bay of Fundy, where Hurricane Earl made landfall over the weekend, has the world’s largest tidal range.

 In one of my first blogs, I wrote about numerical weather prediction models and how they are the primary tool for making the daily weather forecasts.  Often, I am asked, "How good are the models?"  The squall line that rumbled through our area last night as well as Hurricane Earl offer insight into just how good our models have gotten.

NOAA’s latest forecast for an active hurricane season appears to be on track.

Volcanoes, art, and weather... what a way to end the week!

Most have heard the old adage that "one man's junk is another man's treasure."  This can be applied to the engineering world when it comes to using radio waves to find the distance and direction to an object, a technique known as "RAdio Detection And Ranging" or "radar."  

Most of the summertime rainfall in the Midwest comes from thunderstorm complexes…

While destruction from any natural disaster is devastating, it seems even more overwhelming when that destruction causes the area to be almost completely abandoned.

Is it the heat, or the humidity?

Snow, anyone??

The low-flying cousin of the jet stream is responsible for most of the wind energy potential in the Great Plains.