Mother Nature has been very busy lately creating some gorgeous winter scenes across the region. Weather conditions have been perfect the last 4 nights and early mornings for widespread and dense fog to form. We’ve had mostly clear nights, light winds and lots of low-level moisture from a slowly melting snow-pack. We’ve also had a [...]
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Top 10 Weather Events Of 2009 (Official Results)
The National Weather Service in La Crosse just released the results for the top 10 weather and/or climate events for the region in 2009. This list was voted on by staff at the NWS office in La Crosse, emergency management directors and media meteorologists… including yours truly.
Here was my Top 10:
Dec. 8-9 Blizzard
July 27 Crawford County [...]
Holiday Storm Update #3
It’s Wednesday morning… and everything is pretty much on track with a powerful winter storm emerging into the South-Central Plains today. This storm is huge with the parent low still over New Mexico, but weaker disturbances rotating around it are already sending waves of moisture northward into Iowa. There’s even a little moisture lifting into [...]
Holiday Storm Update #2
Just a quick update on the storm heading our way, as of Tuesday afternoon. The large and complex storm is currently in “organizing and developing” stage near the 4-corners. In fact, there are three different chunks of energy coming together to form this storm. One is near Arizona, one closer to Nevada and another over [...]
Latest On Potential Christmas Storm
I was in Nodine, MN this morning to talk to 1st and 2nd graders about the weather. They were a great group with lots of good questions, but of course everyone wanted to know what to expect from the storm that’s forecast to impact the region later this week. I stopped by the grocery store [...]