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Today, the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, Inc. (FLASH) named MyRadar, Capital Weather Gang, and FOX5 DC meteorologist Matthew Cappucci as the 2023 National Weatherperson of the Year.

Tras las lluvias torrenciales de los dos últimos días, las excepcionales condiciones de sequía han desaparecido por completo en el estado de California. Un corredor de humedad en el cielo, conocido como un río atmosférico, ha traído precipitaciones significativas a la costa oeste de EE.UU., con inundaciones repentinas que han causado al menos 19 víctimas hasta el sábado.

After torrential rainfall over the last couple of days, exceptional drought conditions have been completely wiped out in the state of California. A corridor of moisture in the sky, known as atmospheric rivers, has brought significant rainfall to the U.S. west coast, with flash flooding resulting in at least 19 casualties as of Saturday. According to the National Weather Service, the storm is one of the most impressive in nearly 20 years.

With more than 110 million Americans set to hit the roads this holiday weekend, conditions could become downright dangerous at times (both by land and air). Roads as far north as the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (I-75) and as far west as Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon (I-5) look set for adverse weather over the busy holiday weekend in addition to numerous Interstate Highways throughout the Midwest (including I-70, I-80, I-90, I-96 and I-94).

As one of the most significant cold snaps of the last 20 years gets set to grip most of the United States, the MyRadar app’s travel features are here to help keep millions of travelers safe.

For much of the United States, six inches of the snow is a significant amount to deal with. For Upstate New York, it is next to nothing. But six feet? That got the attention of the region pretty quickly. The science behind how these monster snowstorms is fascinating and surprisingly simple.

Tras casi una semana de niveles históricos de nieve , los cielos empiezan a despejarse en la región de los Grandes Lagos. Según el Centro de Predicción Meteorológica, la mayor cantidad de nieve registrada fue de 80 pulgadas , o 6 pies y medio.

(MYRADAR)– After nearly a week of historic levels of snow, the skies are beginning to clear around the Great Lake region. According to the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Prediction Center, the highest recorded snowfall amount was 80 inches, or 6 1/2 ft, in Erie County, NY.

The long history behind weather forecasting demonstrates how difficult it was for humans to first begin predicting the weather. Today, it hasn't gotten any easier, but we are a whole lot better at it thanks to science.

MyRadar, the popular weather and environmental intelligence app mobile, desktop and console platforms, has been selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop and demonstrate key technologies that will enable satellite-based information and alerting to assist in the detection and mitigation of wildfire hazards.

Even if you're not in the Central United States but rather anywhere in the eastern half of the country, you noticed a winter-like chill take hold over much of this week. But if you've stepped outside today, you've noticed it actually feels quite enjoyable. I am currently sitting outside writing ...

Who doesn't love labor day? It's a day where many of us get to enjoy a day off from work all thanks to the pro-labor movements of the late 1800s. Nowadays, Labor Day typically caps off the end of the summer activities season as we approach the fall equinox on ...

Just like the weather, a storm chaser never rests. To keep the body healthy and operating at peak efficiency, the most important thing is good hydration. Anywhere you find life on earth, water is required. Even in the desert in the southwest of the United States, rain is needed to ...

Believe me, no one is more excited for the heat of the summer to wane. Summer is nice don't get me wrong. But if I'm not at the beach, I'd much rather have cool fall-like weather in my day-to-day life. Now, it may seem like I'm getting ahead of myself ...

This surely isn't the first time you've seen Flooding in the news over the last few weeks. Beginning in late July, a string of extreme flood events have struck across various locations in the US, and at record levels. First, the St. Louis area was pounded on July 25th-26th. Next, ...

Everyone seems to know the tornado capital of the United States: Tornado Alley in the central Great Plains. But this obviously isn't the only place that tornadoes occur.

Pyrocumulus clouds, also known as fire clouds are one of the most dangerous, yet fascinating forms of extreme fire behavior that only occur on the most intense wildfires. These fire clouds can generate erratic winds, prolific lightning outbreaks, and even fire tornadoes.

A tsunami in the sky? A funnel cloud about to become a tornado? Wisps of fog forming? Nope, it’s none of the above. What you're looking at is a "Scud Cloud", and the science hidden behind them explains why they appear to be something they're not.

Cada año, ciudadanos de todo el mundo unen sus fuerzas para concienciar sobre el calentamiento de nuestro clima. Al participar en la campaña #ShowYourStripes, nuestro equipo se enorgullece de apoyar un esfuerzo global de concienciación sobre el cambio climático.

Every year, citizens around the world join forces to raise awareness of our warming climate. Participating in the #ShowYourStripes campaign, our team is proud support a global effort to raise awareness of climate change.

If I were to describe this summer so far in the heartland, I would call it HOT and DRY. We typically do see temperatures in the mid-to-upper 90s here in my home base of Evansville, Indiana; however, what's unusual is the amount of consecutive days that we've reached that temperature ...

The West has already seen a historically bad start to fire season. New Mexico has seen a deadly wildfire this spring and two of its largest wildfires in state history. Expect fire season to pick up rapidly across the rest of the West in the coming weeks.

La Semana Nacional de Seguridad contra los Relámpagos se inició en 2001 para llamar la atención sobre este asesino subestimado. ¡Aprende más sobre estas amenazas!

If you live anywhere in the Midwest, you have certainly felt the furnace cranking over the Central United States so far this week. Even though the heatwave is still gripping the region today, its intensity is diminishing and is soon set to give way to more seasonable temperatures in the ...

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Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas are experiencing one of their worst floods on record due to unprecedented heavy rains on a supersized snowpack.

An intensifying heat dome over the Southwest is about to bring the region its hottest string of days so far in 2022. Daily record highs from the Bay Area to Phoenix will be smashed as the intense dome of high pressure slowly shifts east over the weekend.

The North American continent is a vast diverse landscape. From the open prairie land in southern Canada and North Dakota, to the badlands of South Dakota, into the Sandhills of Nebraska, through the cornfields of Iowa, and the open grassland plains of Kansas and Oklahoma, then down to the red ...

Picture the typical summer weather where you live. For majority of the Central U.S., summer is occupied by many hot and humid days. We've seen our fair share of muggy and warm conditions last month despite it still being astronomical spring –even still in early June. As we reminisce on ...

Hurricanes and tropical storms are some of the most significant weather events we see every year. MyRadar tropical weather expert Dr. David Ryglicki breaks down where hurricanes come from before they even have a name.

Los meteorólogos de la Administración Nacional Oceánica y Atmosférica (NOAA) prevén otra temporada activa de huracanes en el Atlántico. En una conferencia de prensa realizada el martes, los pronosticadores de la NOAA prevén un 65% de probabilidad de una temporada de huracanes por encima de lo normal, y un 25% ...

Have you ever wondered what goes into building a mobile app? In the latest episode of ONE-on-ONE, Meteorologist Mike Linden speaks to Senior Software Engineer Bradley Anderson. Brad is a jack of all trades on the team - from business development, to programming to working on the Star Citizen features in the app, Brad's done A LOT at MyRadar (and answers some of YOUR questions too).

This past week, the NWS Storm Prediction Center released new SPC risk categories in Spanish.

Allergies ravage residents of the Northeast every spring, and this year is no different. Where do these allergies come from, and how does the weather complicate them?

If you live in the Central United States and stepped foot outside yesterday or today, you may be wondering "who turned up the heat?" Seemingly out of no where, we went straight from our perfect and mild May weather with highs in the 70s to sudden scorching temperatures. It's no ...

El meteorólogo Joseph Trujillo Falcón les brinda recomendaciones que usted y su familia pueden tomar durante las inundaciones. Es muy importante tomar en conciencia las alertas del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología y nunca subestimar el poder de las corrientes.

Los tornados son columnas de aire que giran violentamente y se extienden desde la base de una tormenta eléctrica hasta el suelo. La fuerza de los tornados puede destruir estructuras bien construidas, arrancar árboles y lanzar objetos por el aire. Los tornados pueden producirse a cualquier hora del día o ...

In the spring-time, it isn't uncommon for many of us to be confused as to what we need to wear as we head out the door. For much of the United States, just like fall, spring is a time of weather rollercoasters. Each day of the week seems to require ...

April Showers have been the case so far this month across the Northeast. So, will they bring May flowers? Tulips may be tempted to bloom soon after seeing this week's forecast.

California has gone through wild swings in precipitation from record wet to record dry in just the last 6 months. This phenomenon of abrupt transition from record wet to record dry or vice versa is known as "precipitation whiplash" and is expected to increase with climate change.

We've all heard the famous quote by Benjamin Franklin... "In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes." While that rings true to this day, I propose to add an amendment to that list if you live in the Midwest/Central United States. What else is certain you might ask?

65,000, that is the average number of miles I drive each year in pursuit of the extreme's of mother nature: tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards and more. As we near the end of March, I found myself deep in central Texas on March 21st. Deep into Texas, but familiar ground for me.

California is expecting its strongest storm in three months - delivering widespread soaking rainfall and heavy mountain snowfall above 6,000 feet.

Just a couple weeks are officially left in the winter season. On March 20, we’ll officially begin spring. It’s the time of the year when great clashes of air masses occur over the United States resulting in severe weather and sometimes tornadoes.

The weather has been hectic across the Northeast...to say the least. It doesn't look to stop anytime soon, as an impactful storm is expected to race through the region this weekend and "Bomb Out". Extreme weather events have impacted the region in March for centuries. So, what makes March so extreme?

ACME AtronOmatic, LLC, makers of the popular MyRadar weather and environmental awareness app, has secured its FCC license for the upcoming launch of its first batch of prototype satellites out of New Zealand on a Rocket Lab Electron rocket. The launches are expected to begin in April.

It's mid-February and generally that means hunting down Nor'Easters, blizzards and winter storms across the United States. We are in the dead of winter, but that doesn't mean tornadoes can't happen somewhere in the United States.

Most people associate severe thunderstorms and their winds, hail and tornadoes, with spring. But severe storms can happen anywhere, at any time of the year. In fact, one of the first severe events of 2021 happened on March 10th, with wall clouds appearing over frozen lakes and snow in Minnesota. ...