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Story Highlights Heavy snow is blanketing the slopes of Hawaii's peaks. Snow, there, is not as unusual as it sounds. It can even happen in summer. Yes, it's snowing in Hawaii, but don't rush to cancel your vacation if you're looking to escape colder weather. This snow is falling over the peaks of the Big Island of Hawaii, including Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for the Big Island's volcanic peaks of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa through late Sunday night. The warning says that an additional 6 to 12 inches...

The nation's capital is now under a blizzard watch, the first watch of its kind issued in advance of Winter Storm Jonas. Now is the time to prepare for Winter Storm Jonas, which is expected to kick into high gear Friday and pummel parts of the East through the weekend with heavy accumulations of snow and ice. Strong winds will likely add to the threat of power outages and may also bring serious coastal flooding along parts of the Atlantic coast. The National Weather Service issued the blizzard watch late Wednesday morning for Washington, D.C., and nearby Baltimore. The watch...

The Minnesota State Climatology Office reported that “it appears that the minimum pressure … measured at Bigfork is the new record low pressure for a non-tropical storm in the Continental U.S. (excluding tornadoes).” For comparison, they also noted that the lowest pressure recorded in the “Edmund Fitzgerald storm” was 28.95 inches, and the lowest pressure record in the Armistice Day Storm was 28.55 inches. This storm also set local records for low pressure at Duluth and International Falls, and a new Wisconsin state record set at Superior, which recorded a reading of 961.3 millibars, or 28.39 inches of mercury, at...

000 NWUS54 KMOB 122029 LSRMOB PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 229 PM CST FRI FEB 12 2010 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0140 PM HEAVY SNOW BREWTON 31.10N 87.07W 02/12/2010 M2.5 INCH ESCAMBIA AL BROADCAST MEDIA WEBJ RADIO REPORTS A NEW SNOWFALL TOTAL OF 2.5 INCHES. 0140 PM HEAVY SNOW BELLEVILLE 31.43N 87.11W 02/12/2010 M6.0 INCH CONECUH AL PUBLIC MEASURED ON A FLAT SURFACE. ALSO COOKS CROSSROAD NEARBY MEASURED 7 INCHES ON A FLAT SURFACE. THE EXACT LOCATION OF COOKS CROSSROAD IS UNKNOWN BUT WAS REPORTED BY INDIVIDUAL. 0226 PM...

BULLETIN TROPICAL DEPRESSION ONE-E ADVISORY NUMBER 1 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL EP012008 800 PM PDT WED MAY 28 2008 ...TROPICAL DEPRESSION FORMS NEAR COSTA RICA...EXPECTED TO BRING HEAVY RAINS TO PORTIONS OF CENTRAL AMERICA... AT 8 PM PDT...0300 UTC...THE GOVERNMENT OF COSTA RICA HAS ISSUED A TROPICAL STORM WARNING FOR THE PACIFIC COAST OF COSTA RICA. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO SPREAD ACROSS THE PACIFIC COAST OF NICARAGUA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. FOR STORM...

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 296 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 335 PM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008 THE NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WATCH FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHERN ARKANSAS NORTHWEST MISSISSIPPI EFFECTIVE THIS SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING FROM 335 PM UNTIL 1000 PM CDT. ...THIS IS A PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION... DESTRUCTIVE TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL TO 2.5 INCHES IN DIAMETER... THUNDERSTORM WIND GUSTS TO 70 MPH...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING ARE POSSIBLE IN THESE AREAS. THE TORNADO WATCH AREA IS APPROXIMATELY ALONG AND 75 STATUTE MILES NORTH AND SOUTH OF A LINE FROM 65 MILES...

BEIJING, April 17 (Xinhua) -- China's National Meteorological Center (NMC) issued a warning against typhoon Neoguri on Thursday afternoon, forecasting it was likely to land along the southeastern coast of Hainan Province or skim over the offshore areas between Friday afternoon or Saturday morning. The latest forecast at 5 p.m. showed that the center of Neoguri was 350 kilometers southeast of the Sanya city in southern Hainan, packing winds up to 136.8 kilometers per hour. Typhoon Neoguri would affect southern Hainan and Guangdong provinces, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and southeastern Fujian Province, according to the China Meteorological Administration (CMA)....

As a strong vort max begins to move out of the Rocky Mountain region today, wind shear and instability will be sufficient for intense supercells with the likelihood of producing tornadoes. 40 knots at 850 mb, and ENE-ly storm motions will combine to create perfect storm relative winds for strong tornadoes. The Storm Prediction Center has issued a moderate risk for today, with a hatched area for EF2-EF5 tornadoes. Tomorrow looks like a historic outbreak, so we'll be making a two-day chase out of this. We'll be using three live streaming vehicles today, and we're continue improving our setup,...

Excerpt - PIEDMONT, Mo. | Torrential rains that hammered southern Missouri from Springfield to Cape Girardeau caused widespread flooding Tuesday. One man drowned and hundreds of people were left homeless. The flooding closed nearly 200 roads and sent propane tanks and debris spiraling down lowlands turned into raging rivers. Heavy rain began falling Monday and just kept coming. Forecasters said some parts of the state could see 10 inches of rain or more before the storms stop today. An 81-year-old man was found dead around noon Tuesday in Ellington, about 120 miles southwest of St. Louis, said Lt. Nicholas Humphrey,...

Excerpt - A severe weather outbreak is likely tonight through tomorrow from the eastern Southern Plains east to the Mississippi River Valley (Southern IL southward). The models have been trending slower and slower with this system with each consecutive run, with the WRF now forecasting the dryline to cross the I-35 corridor late tomorrow (Tuesday) morning. Therefore, the severe weather threat for today will hold off until after dark when the upper-level support arrives. Beginning early tomorrow afternoon, or even late tonight, the threat for tornadoes will increase dramatically over Northeast TX, East OK, and AR as supercells become surface-based....

Excerpt - Ice and snowstorms have closed Iowa's airports and highways in recent days, stopping even the most determined presidential candidates in their campaign tracks. But Thursday, caucus night here, the weather may be more than an annoyance. Political analysts say the atmospheric conditions could have a serious impact on how candidates fare in this first step in the nation's presidential nomination process. Right now, meteorologists are expecting a balmy (by Midwestern standards) high of 41 degrees, sunny conditions and a 10% chance of precipitation. That forecast suits Hillary Clinton on the Democratic side, and Mitt Romney on the Republican...

Oh, bliss: the Weather.com folks have brought out realtime interactive weather maps. You can, like, zoom in to your neighborhood and watch weather happening in realtime. Mind you, we don't really have much weather in San Diego, so I've been watching a rainstorm move block-by-block through Santa Barbara, but you get the idea. Anyway, there goes the GDP -- we weather nuts may never leave the house again.

SPC AC 231619 DAY 1 CONVECTIVE OUTLOOK NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK 1019 AM CST FRI FEB 23 2007 VALID 231630Z - 241200Z ...THERE IS A MDT RISK OF SVR TSTMS THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT ACROSS PARTS OF SOUTH CENTRAL KS...WESTERN AND CENTRAL OK...AND NORTHWEST TX...... ...THERE IS A SLGT RISK OF SVR TSTMS CENTRAL NEB INTO CENTRAL TX... VIGOROUS TROUGH INLAND THIS AM SWRN U.S. ON TRACK TO IMPACT THE SRN PLAINS...PARTICULARLY TONIGHT. MODELS ARE IN GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TIMING AND LOCATION OF SURFACE CYCLOGENESIS WITH LOW DEVELOPING SERN CO THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN DEEPENING RAPIDLY TONIGHT...

   A powerful early spring-like storm system will move across the southern U.S. this weekend, pumping unseasonable moisture northward from the Gulf of Mexico.  The stage will be set for possible tornadoes, maybe an outbreak, on Friday and/or Saturday across the Southern Plains and south-central U.S respectively.  Shown above is the WRF forecast CAPE and 850 mb flow for Friday afternoon.  We'll definitely be chasing this event all the way to the Atlantic Ocean...so stay tuned!

Excerpt - ORLANDO, Fla., Feb 2 (Reuters) - Fourteen people were killed and dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed when tornadoes ripped through central Florida on Friday, an official said. Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes struck a wide area north of Florida's key tourism region of Orlando, reducing homes to rubble and splintered wood. Search and rescue teams fanned out to search for survivors and victims. "I have 14," Christopher Patton, spokesman for the Lake County emergency operations center, told Reuters, citing reports of fatalities from the county medical examiner's office. "I can confirm that number." Patton said three people...

SAROMA, Hokkaido -- Nine people died and numerous others were injured here after their neighborhood was hit by a tornado on Tuesday afternoon, a local disaster management body said. At about 1:20 p.m., a tornado hit the eastern Hokkaido town of Saroma and destroyed several pre-fabricated structures used by construction workers at a tunnel construction site, according to the disaster management body in the Engaru district. At least nine people died and numerous others are believed to have been injured. (Mainichi) The tornado destroys houses in Saroma, Hokkaido, on Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of a reader)

MIAMI - Hurricane forecasters now say conditions are right for a low-pressure area off Mexico in the Gulf of Mexico to intensify, become better organized and possibly form into a tropical depression. That word from the National Hurricane Center in Miami at 11:30 a.m. Earlier today, the hurricane center just made a passing mention of the shower activity in the western gulf. As of late morning, the Miami forecasters say monitoring equipment on buoys in the gulf have picked up wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph. "A tropical depression could develop during the next day or so if...

BOSTON (AP) -- The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Beryl has made landfall in Nantucket.

000 ABNT20 KNHC 172108 TWOAT TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 530 PM EDT MON JUL 17 2006 FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO... A BAND OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRIMARILY ASSOCIATED WITH A LOW PRESSURE AREA IN A FRONTAL ZONE EXTENDS FROM NORTHERN FLORIDA NORTHEASTWARD OVER THE ATLANTIC. THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION AT THIS TIME...HOWEVER...ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS APPEAR SOMEWHAT FAVORABLE FOR THIS SYSTEM TO GRADUALLY ACQUIRE TROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS...AND A POSSIBILITY EXISTS FOR A TROPICAL DEPRESSION TO FORM DURING THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. AN AIR FORCE RESERVE RECONNAISSANCE...