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A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia until 10 PM EDT
ALT This graphic displays Severe Thunderstorm watch number 649 plotted on a map. The watch is in effect until 10:00 PM EDT. The watch includes parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The threats associated with this watch are a couple tornadoes possible, isolated hail up to ping pong size possible and scattered gusts up to 70 mph likely. There are 9,832,163 people in the watch along with 3292 schools and 218 hospitals.
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
August rain so far, from local weather observers. Interested in becoming a CoCoRaHS observer? Check out their website. It's easy and we always need more observations!
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
Reviewing July 5 Tornado/Macroburst | Weather For Weather Geeks 7/13/26 youtu.be/qAHM2hYinLU?si=vtko…
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
That's a LOT of rain... a LOT!
A foot of rain on Kelleys Island since 9:30 Sunday night!
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So far this June, 0.2 percent of the planet has experienced record low temperatures.
Meanwhile, 60 percent of the planet has been much warmer than average, including 7.2 percent that has experienced record warmth, considering data from 1940 to 2026.
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
Spring 2026 was wetter and warmer than normal across Northern Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania. Most locations were in the top 10 list for the warmest, wettest, and least snow during the spring season. For additional information go to weather.gov/cle/climate_info
ALT Chart with average temperatures, total precipitation and snowfall data for spring 2026 at regular reporting locations across Northern Ohio and Northwest Pennsylvania.
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
Key West has bottomed out at a sultry 84°F again today. That tied the May monthly record for the 4th time this month!
Record warm mornings are growing exponentially, especially near the Gulf. 2/3rds of Key West’s record warm mornings have occurred in the last 25 years. It’s very similar in the rest of the Gulf region. Thanks @extremetemps for the H/T!
#florida
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Audio up!
New article on Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica today claims that the ice shelf is deteriorating much faster now leading the team at the British Antarctic Survey to write an obituary for it. These quotes sound alarming, and they are. But deep in the article they mention that this is a “gradually developing crisis rather than an immediate emergency.”
Still with comments like this from scientists it’s a good reminder that a whole lot of ice and sea level is sitting behind very fragile ice shelves at the bottom of the World!
"Suddenly, large areas are just falling to pieces," says Christian Wild, from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. "It looks like a windscreen that's shattering."
“Massive cracks have emerged around the pinning point, where an underwater ridge once anchored the floating ice in position.”
"It's essentially in free fall now," says Mr Wild, noting the pace has quickened further over the past five months.
“Fresh rifts have appeared along the grounding line, where the glacier transitions from land to floating ice.”
Here’s a video I made explaining the ice shelf holds back the Glacier and how the grounding line is destabilizing. Audio up!
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Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
An El Niño signature is emerging.
The developmental pace has been quicker than at this time in 1982, 1997 and 2015, considering traditional indices over the past week.
But, based on new relative indices, the 1997 and 2015 events were slightly further advanced than 2026 is now.
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
It’s been so dry in Florida and the Southeast that we need 20 to 30” of rain in 3-months to wipe out the drought. I’ve never seen such large numbers over such a large area!
Basically this means it simply won’t happen for most in the near future…it may take the better part of summer to make up the deficit. El Niño will certainly help finish off what’s left of the drought by next winter. #florida #drought
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
Plants say spring is here! 🌱
About 190 million Americans have experienced an earlier-than-normal spring leaf-out, based on the behavior of lilac and honeysuckle.
Leaves emerged 30 to 50 days earlier than normal near the Rockies and in parts of the Plains, breaking records.
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🚨#BREAKING: Watch incredible footage captured from passengers on an airliner above Florida, showing the exact moment the Artemis II mission lifts off carrying four astronauts on its journey around the Moon as they make history
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Check out this lightning strike in Traverse City Tuesday captured on dashcam video. Courtesy: Steve Wcisel @upnorthlive @natwxdesk @NWSGaylord
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
Never seen anything like this. 200+ monthly records set today alone! Every pink dot means a city set its new all-time highest March temperature! That’s around 570 new monthly records in the last 4 days. Some set multiple times. By far the most rogue #heatwave the US has experienced in memory.
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
The National Water Prediction Service (or NWPS) can be found at water.noaa.gov, where you can explore river observations and forecasts, long range flood outlooks, and a multitude of other products. #FloodSafetyPA
ALT The National Water Prediction Service (or NWPS) can be found at https://water.noaa.gov! What can NWPS Show Me? River Observations and Forecasts, Long Range Flood Outlooks, NWS Hazards, Precipitation Estimates, Flood Inundation Mapping, and National Snow Analyses.
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
Yesterday was the snowiest 60°F day we've seen in our records (dating back to 1948). Out here in Moon Township, the high was 60 degrees and we measured 6.3" of snow.
ALT Yesterday was the snowiest 60°F day we've seen in our records (dating back to 1948). Out here in Moon Township, the high was 60 degrees and we measured 6.3" of snow.
Ralph Mack☉😎🌩🌅🌕📸 retweeted
The latest GLM imagery (1301Z) does suggest that the boom was a result of a meteor.
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This is a chilling, eerie map – it depicts all the tornado emergencies to ever be issued in the United States.
Tornado emergencies are the most urgent, life-or-death alert that the National Weather Service can issue. In the past 27 years, there have only been 314 tornado emergencies issued.
They're reserved only for anticipated catastrophic, high-end tornadoes – intense-to-violent EF3, EF4 and EF5 monsters on a crash-course with population centers.
On April 27, 2011, there were 37 of them issued. THIRTY SEVEN.
The tornado emergency was invented on May 3, 1999, when a mile-wide F5 tornado was barreling up the H. E. Bailey Turnpike into the Oklahoma City metro area. Forecasters knew that dozens would perish, and that entire neighborhoods would be obliterated. At the National Weather Service in nearby Norman on the University of Oklahoma campus, the warning meteorologist on duty felt a run-of-the-mill tornado warning wouldn't cut it. Their 6:57 p.m. message reflected it.
The warning began “tornado emergency in south Oklahoma City,” the phrase “tornado emergency” never having been used before. The pioneered phrasing is now reserved only for the most significant events with the highest fatality potential, famously being issued on May 20, 2013, as another EF5 tornado barreled into Moore. (Joplin, Missouri SHOULD have been a tornado emergency, but infamously wasn't.)
This tornado season, take ALL tornado warnings seriously – but, if you find yourself in a tornado emergency, know what it means. If you hear the phrase "tornado emergency," know that the decisions you make will be critical for survival.
