A series of severe storms swept through Colorado Sunday spawning a series of tornadoes.
One person was injured when a tornado touched down at country club in Aurora, Colorado that was hosting a junior golf tournament. Officials say the injured man is the father of a tournament competitor who suffered a broken wrist when winds from the storm blew over his golf cart.
Police say it was a miracle no one was seriously hurt because 97 young competitors and their parents were on the course when the tornado struck.
Park County spokeswoman Linda Balough told USA Today that a funnel cloud struck the community of Fairplay about 65 miles southwest of Denver damaging a home’s roof.
“This is amazingly unusual at 10,000 feet,” Balough said. “Very unusual for it to happen up here.”
An RV park about 40 miles from Fairplay was heavily damaged by another twister but no one was injured.
New England is in the path of a major snowstorm that will begin Thursday and continue into the weekend.
Two storm cells are merging in the mid-Atlantic region and moving up the Eastern seaboard. Blizzard like conditions are likely from New York through Boston and into Maine.
Officials say it won’t be one of the worst storms to hit the area but the frigid temperatures combined with the snow will make traveling through the area very hazardous. Residents are being warned that long-term power outages are a possibility from the heavy snow and high winds.
The storm is also expected to cause major headaches for travelers who are returning from Christmas and New Years vacations.
Transportation officials are warning that layers of ice are likely to form on highways after nightfall and are advising people to stay in through Friday if possible.
An epic winter blast has brought temperatures in parts of Canada below temperatures on an uninhabited planet.
The Mars Curiosity Rover reported a high temperature on Mars Tuesday of -20 degrees. The city of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada did not reach a high of -20 degrees until after 3 p.m. on Tuesday.
The temperature in the city was so cold throughout most of the day that exposed skin can freeze in less than five minutes.
Meteorologists in the province said that wind chills in the northern parts of the province made it feel around -50 degrees throughout the day Tuesday.
Surprisingly, the Mars-matching temperature was not the record for coldest day in Canadian history. The historical mark for December 30th is -36 degrees.
The Lord woke me up again with Revelation 18 – it startled me! He said we were close to this time. We’re in a very eventful time right now. We’re in the “coming of the Lord” time. I believe the antichrist is on earth. I know this, the antichrist spirit is in the world. I believe the antichrist spirit is consuming the United States of America.
The weather has gone wild. The Lord has been dealing with me and I’ve said it for several years now; the storms are going to be out of control. They’re going to be more out of control. In the United States of America, they broke 1,000 records for temperatures last week! Is that “cold, cold, cold?’
In the last week, the temperature here has gone from 60 degrees to zero! All of these things are bringing about a warning. Rick Joyner warns that when you see strange and extreme weather (record breaking highs, lows, floods, droughts, tornadoes, storms), it is a prophetic sign that something is about to explode on the scene; the Revelation Days are upon us.
Old people can say, “there’s a storm coming”…but it’s physical and it’s spiritual (what we are feeling right now.) The Bible says the earth will groan (Romans 8:22) Continue reading →
A major winter storm caused horrible weather conditions from Texas through the East Coast over the weekend.
Parts of Texas remain without power and hundreds of thousands from Texas to Ohio were without power as a result of a massive winter storm that brought up to 2 inches of ice in some locations.
Northern parts of the U.S. were receiving heavy blankets of snow resulting in airport closures and fight delays. However, airports in the south were not immune from the problems, as many flights from Dallas, Oklahoma City and Little Rock had to be cancelled because of ice and cold temperatures.
The ice coating in Texas reached levels that were not expected by government officials. Some parts of Interstate 35 had to be scraped by a grader with blades to break up the thick ice.
The storm rolled into the East Coast Sunday evening with one Virginia Emergency Management official saying the storm could bring a “historic ice event” to the state.
Forecasters say that warmer temperatures are coming in the next few days but that ice will likely coat the entire Midwest for the next few days.
A severe winter storm hit the western U.S. bringing hazardous travel conditions, dangerously lowering temperatures and threatened crops as far south as California.
Meteorologists say the jet stream has moved significantly further south than normal bringing arctic temperatures into the northwest. AccuWeather reported that temperatures could fall as much as 40 degrees below normal this weekend and a second winter blast could follow in a few days.
Areas of Montana saw temperature forecasts as low as the minus-20s. Officials say that when temperatures reach that low, even a little breeze can cause enough wind chill to be dangerous.
The storm also dumped heavy snow across the northwest part of the country including up to 2 feet in the Rocky Mountains. Ice and snow created dangerous driving conditions and contributed to a four car crash in Montana that killed a 21-year-old woman.
The system is pushing so far south that forecasters say Texans currently experiencing 80 degree days will see lower 40s by Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens fled the coastlines as authorities issued a red alert due to Typhoon Fitow.
The storm, with maximum sustained winds of 93 m.p.h., made landfall around 1:15 a.m. local time Monday. Forecasters predict as much as 8 inches of rain falling in the early morning hours across three provinces along the southwest coast.
At least two port workers are reported missing in Zhejiang province with many homes already destroyed. Power is reportedly out across hundreds of miles.
Over 750,000 residents of the three provinces were forced to evacuate by Chinese police and military.
Guangdong province, which neighbors the province where the storm’s eye made landfall, had 25 people die when Typhoon Usagi struck just weeks ago.
The National Weather Service is reporting an estimated EF-4 tornado struck the town of Wayne, Nebraska late Saturday afternoon causing significant damage.
Mayor Ken Chamberlain said there were multiple injuries but thankfully no one appears to have been killed by the surprise storm.
The storm reportedly produced multiple tornadoes that struck mainly in the industrial section of the city. Chamberlain told CNN that about a dozen houses were destroyed by the big tornado. Cars were flipped throughout the area and many motorists found themselves trapped but the only major emergency appeared to be a broken gas line.
“Hazmat is on the scene working with the gas leak,” state emergency management spokeswoman Jodie Fawl said.
Providence Medical Center in Wayne said that at least 15 people have been brought in with storm-related injuries.
In Rapid City, South Dakota, a freak winter storm has taken out power to over 30,000 residents. Rapid City police issued a “no travel” advisory for the city. They also said that slush on the roads is “causing vehicles to hydroplane.”
Wyoming Highway Patrol spokesman said a winter storm has shut down almost all of Interstate 25 through the state. A section of Interstate 80 was also closed unless vehicles have chains on the tires.
An unusual event playing out high in the atmosphere above the Arctic Circle is setting the stage for what could be weeks upon weeks of frigid cold across wide swaths of the U.S., having already helped to bring cold and snowy weather to parts of Europe. Continue reading →
The summer of unusually wet weather has created a large impact on British crops that is going to lead to heavy increases in food prices.
The National Farmers Union announced that wheat yields in the country are down almost 15% lower than the country’s five-year average. The British Retail Consortium said that food prices, already high due to the drought in the U.S. and a heatwave in Russia, which lowered corn and wheat production. Continue reading →