A large hatch of mayflies on the Mississippi River in Wisconsin showed up on weather radar. Thanks to Dean Armstrong and Boing-Boing for the link to a Milwaukee newspaper story. It’s not uncommon for animals to show up on weather radar. In fact, migrating birds and insects are often caught on radar. A weather service [...]
Browsing Posts in Ministry of Weather
Mayflies on radar; bats enveloped by thunderstorm
July 11, 2006
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Dude gets hit by lighting, iPod destroyed
July 6, 2006
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Denver Post article states that this guy got hit by lighting while using his iPod: Notice the burn marks along the ears from the headphones. Most lightning actually travels up from the ground to the clouds and the current will follow any conductive material. Of course, small wires soon vaporize and the current follows the [...]
Hottest June on Record
July 1, 2006
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From the National Weather Service: Statement as of 1:40 am PDT on July 1, 2006 … Las Vegas sets the hottest June on record… The average temperature for June 2006 was 90.5 degrees. This breaks the previous June record of 90.3 degrees set in 1994. Las Vegas also recorded an average low temperature of 78.2 [...]
Epic Rain in Houston
June 19, 2006
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We almost didn’t make it back to Vegas from our Texas vacation today. In fact, if we were flying with Southwest out of Hobby Airport, we wouldn’t have made it back. That airport was closed after about 9 inches of rain fell in the area in about 90 minutes. Of course, being a weather nut [...]
Tornado in Eureka County
June 9, 2006
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I was a little surprised when this came over the Nevada Skywarn mailing list today:
More temperature records
June 5, 2006
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From the National Weather Service: Statement as of 5:33 PM PDT on June 4, 2006 … New record temperatures set on June 4 2006… The low temperature reported at McCarran International Airport was 81 degrees today. This break the previous high minimum temperature record of 80 degrees set in 2004. For the second consecutive day [...]
Third Warmest May on Record
June 1, 2006
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From the National Weather Service: Statement as of 4:15 PM PDT on June 1, 2006 … Las Vegas records third warmest may on record… The average temperature in may 2006 was 81.0 degrees. This was the third warmest may on record. The warmest may on record was 82.2 degrees set in 2002 followed by 81.6 [...]
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