The devastating Texas drought that has already cost over $5 billion could continue for nine more years, predicted Texas State Climatologist John Nielson-Gammon in an interview with Reuters yesterday. "It is possible that we could be looking at another ...

Ophelia has become the 4th hurricane of the season. We already had 7 hurricanes at this point last season, but we didn't even get 4 hurricanes the whole season the year before that in 2009. Ophelia's pressure is down to 979 mb, and her maximum sustaine...

(Click on image for larger view.) Rain from Typhoon Nesat (called Pedring in the Philippines) caused widespread flooding in the Philippines on September 27 and 28, 2011. The image, made from the Multi-satellite Precipitation Analysis, which is ba...

By Rob Miller, Senior Meteorologist Sep 30, 2011; 8:49 AM ET A satellite image of Nesat taken Friday morning, Eastern Time. This image is courtesy of the U.S. Navy's Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. After a long and deadly jou...

By Bill Deger, Meteorologist Sep 30, 2011; 6:21 AM ET While the Northeast will experience a true taste of winter this weekend, cool Canadian air will seep all the way south to Texas and the Deep South beginning today. High temperatures some 15 t...

PA: More Flooding, Storms, Snow Over the Rainbow Sep 29, 2011; 1:27 PM ET "If you don't like the weather in New England, wait a few minutes." This quote attributed to Mark Twain might as well be adopted by us in Pennsylvania this week. We got extremel...

Tropical Storm Ophelia is strengthening as it pulls away from the Lesser Antilles Islands and heads north-northwest. Recent satellite loops show that Ophelia has developed a Central Dense Overcast (CDO) of high cirrus clouds over its core, which is cha...

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Sep 29, 2011; 11:20 AM ET Center of Typhoon Nesat in the Qiongzhou Strait, between Hainan and mainland China, on Sept. 29, 2011 (Joint Typhoon Warning Center image). Hundreds of thousands South China residents...

The fronts we experience in the interior of western Washington and Oregon, or east of the Cascades are generally pretty wimpy affairs, having been highly modified and weakened by the coastal mountains (including the Olympics) and then the higher Cascad...

Ophelia in now back up to tropical storm strength and still climbing. She is up to 60 mph sustained with a pressure of 995 mb. She is just to the northeast of the Leeward Antilles and is still slowly moving northwest at 6 mph. Ophelia's west side is op...

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Sep 29, 2011; 10:05 AM ET Google Maps image. A huge wildfire has scorched nearly 5 million hectares (about 12 million acres) of Australian outback in the nation's desert hinterland. The blaze had been burning ...

Climate change will show which animals can take the heat Public release date: 29-Sep-2011[ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Richard LewisRichard_Lewis@brown.edu401-863-3766Brown University IMAGE: The speckled black salamander, one of the spec...

Ophelia is back as a tropical depression, thanks to a reduction in wind shear that allowed the storm to re-organize yesterday afternoon just east of the Lesser Antilles Islands. Martinique radar shows a large area of concentrated thunderstorms lies abo...

PRINT EMAIL Photo: Jason Gutierrez/IRIN An average of 20 typhoons a year strike the Philippines MANILA, 28 September 2011 (IRIN) - Philippines authorities are warning of possible water-borne disease outbreaks following Typhoon Nesat, which f...

By John Marsh, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Sep 28, 2011; 2:12 PM ET Photo by Jim St. Leger - @intel_jim A haboob occurred south of Phoenix on Wednesday, Sept. 27. "It was caused by a monsoonal thunderstorm," said AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Mi...

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Sep 28, 2011; 6:48 AM ET Center of westward-bound Typhoon Nesat leaving northwestern Luzon Island, Philippines, on Tues., Sept. 27, 2011. (NRLMRY image) Typhoon Nesat, leaving northern Philippines in its wake,...

PRINT EMAIL Flash floods in northwestern Kenya have rendered roads impassable (file photo) EAST POKOT/TURKANA, 27 September 2011 (IRIN) - Flash floods in northwest Kenya are hampering the delivery of emergency relief aid to thousands of pas...

PRINT EMAIL WFP has expressed concern about rising food insecurity as fuel and commodity prices rise (file photo) JUBA, 27 September 2011 (IRIN) - UN agencies are warning that newly independent South Sudan will face chronic food shortages n...

Typhoon Nesat roared across Luzon Island in the Philippines last night as a dangerous Category 3 typhoon with 120 mph winds. The typhoon likely dumped 12 - 15 inches of rain along portions of it path, according to satellite rainfall amount forecasts. F...

By Grace Muller, AccuWeather.com Staff Writer Sep 27, 2011; 2:41 PM ET Vermont has repaired most of the roads washed away in Irene's flooding.Allen Crabtree/American Red Cross For skiers worried about getting to their favorite mountain, Vermont o...

(Click on images for larger view.) In September 2011, two episodes of heavy rain in a 15-day period inundated the Indian state of Orissa. On September 26, 2011, the Hindustan Times reported that the second period of heavy rainfall claimed 17 lives,...

Press Release 11-206Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Horizon Spill Effects on Fish Revealed Oil spill resulted in dramatic effects on fish species in Louisiana marshes Oil contamination and minnow trap in the marsh at Grand Terre Island, Louisiana.Credit an...

Severe Weather in The South Rises Again Sep 26, 2011; 10:17 AM ET I'm a Dixie resident at heart, born and raised in North Carolina, so I looked with interest into the severe weather that swept the region yesterday, which Southeast Blogger Frank Strait...

High wind shear and dry air finally managed to kill off Tropical Storm Ophelia yesterday. The storm's remnants continue to fester a few hundred miles east of the Northern Lesser Antilles Islands, but dry air and moderate wind shear of 10 - 20 knots sho...

Wangari Maathai, a prominent Kenyan environmental and political activist and 2004 Nobel prize winner passed away on September 25. She was the first African woman to be awarded the prize and is recognized worldwide in the fight to protect the environment on the African continent.

In science, major advances in understanding often come with a new instrument, one that casts light on a previously unobserved phenomena.  Certainly, that is true of meteorology; through new understanding and additional data from new sensors, the s...

By Jim Andrews, Senior Meteorologist Sep 26, 2011; 7:08 AM ET Warmth far more fitting of July than the last of September will spread over the UK this week. Temperatures will soar as many as 10 degrees C above normal, with Wednesday through Frida...

Tropical Storm Ophelia is barely alive today, as high wind shear and dry air continue to take their toll on the storm. Satellite imagery shows that Ophelia has an oval, highly-stretched center of circulation, with almost no heavy thunderstorm activity ...

There's not much change to Tropical Storm Ophelia today, which continues to battle dry air and high wind shear. Satellite imagery shows that Ophelia has little heavy thunderstorm activity near its low level circulation center, which is mostly exposed t...

A satellite image of Tropical Storm Nesat on Saturday. This image is taken courtesy of NOAA. Tropical Storm Nesat, churning over the open Philippine Sea on Saturday, looms as a serious threat to the Philippines. As of midday Saturday, EDT, Nesat was...