Laura is a major hurricane and will make landfall later today into tonight bringing an impressive storm surge of 14-20 feet: Powerful hurricane-force winds over 170 mph at times: and flooding to not just coastal regions, but well inland as … Continue reading Major Hurricane Laura To Make Landfall Early This Morning
As hurricane Laura emerges out over the warm, tropical Gulf of Mexico, we’re likely to see some rapid strengthening over the next 24-36 hours. There is little in the way of wind shear and the remnants of Marco are not … Continue reading Laura Likely To Become Major Hurricane
We’re already seeing breaking news coverage of the tropical activity in the Gulf as not one, but two tropical systems have “cones” from the National Hurricane Center that overlap. If you’ve been with us at Region Weather for awhile, you’ve … Continue reading Chaos In The Gulf?
Hurricane Hanna is about to make landfall in Texas after developing in the Gulf of Mexico and strengthening over the last few days. This will be the first hurricane to make landfall in the US so far this season. Max … Continue reading Hurricane Hanna About To Make Landfall in Texas
The tropical Atlantic is rather active as it should be as we’re right in the smack middle of the “peak” of hurricane season. Here’s the latest as of Thursday morning: Imelda continues to soak Texas as a tropical depression. Over … Continue reading Active Tropics Right On Cue
Dorian continues to gain forward speed as it gets caught up in the jet stream and pushed by the trough that is responsible for our cooler push of fall-like weather. The biggest impacts from this storm in relation to the … Continue reading The Last Two Days Of Dorian
Hurricane Florence continues to barrel its way east towards the Carolina shoreline and the latest models continue to paint what will likely be devastating impacts to portions of the Carolinas. As of this Tuesday evening post, Florence is a Category … Continue reading Hurricane Florence Will Have Devastating Impacts Along The Carolina Coasts
Just wanted to send a quick update on what has become an active Atlantic Ocean this week. Hurricane season usually “peaks” between September 8-12th, so this is right on cue. Let’s take a look at what’s happening as of Saturday … Continue reading Hurricane Season Ramping Up
Mid 80s yesterday and near 90 today. Wow! This is the product of very dry air…it heats up and cools down quickly and boy did it heat up the last two days! As we know here in NW Indiana, changes are likely to happen in our weather forecast and those changes arrive this evening as a cold front approaches the Region. We’ll likely see two main batches of showers and storms–the first late this evening and the second as we head into the early morning hours Thursday. Let’s take a look. We’re still very warm with pop up showers and … Continue reading Showers and Storms Return This Evening
STORM SETUP: An area of low pressure will slide southeast through the Midwest and eventually the Ohio Valley bringing a narrow, but intense band of heavy, wet snowfall to portions of the Hoosier state. Some of us will see an impactful snow, while others won’t see a single flake! Here’s the latest: ALL OF THE DETAILS: (you can scroll down to the actual forecast if this isn’t your thing) I’ll start by showing you the overall set up and what the latest computer models are showing, and then we’ll show you our Region Weather forecast. Here’s the latest run of … Continue reading Thursday Evening Winter Storm Update
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