Aug 04, 2020

Isaias made landfall near Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina a little after 11 p.m. Monday, August 3 as a Category 1 hurricane. At the time, its maximum sustained winds were 85-mph.As the storm approached the shore, a gauge on a pier in Myrtle Beach recorded the third highest water level since the …

Jul 31, 2020

Photo from https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ As Puerto Rico prepared to brace itself against Tropical Storm Isaias on Tuesday, July 28, the U.S. territory suffered a major power failure. Four hundred thousand customers were left without power. The outage affected towns and municipalities througho…

Jul 28, 2020

Electricity has become a necessity. And, like any necessity it is sorely missed when it isn’t available. In the United States today, electricity like water flows through more than 450,000 miles of high voltage transmission lines. The country’s power grid includes separate grids in the west, east,…

Jul 28, 2020

Photo from www.weather.com Carrying a punch of 85-mph winds, Hurricane Douglas twirled about 90-miles northwest of Kahului, Hawaii and nearly 60-miles northeast of Honolulu, according to the latest reports from the National Hurricane Center. The Hurricane Center also noted that the hurricane w…

Jul 17, 2020

Photo from www.weather.com If you live in a hurricane vulnerable section of the United States, then you are probably aware that predicting hurricanes is based on a plethora of models from a number of weather forecasting organizations. The models show the direction in which the storm is exp…

Jul 09, 2020

Although hurricanes are considered to be the most extreme natural phenomena on the face of the earth, it can’t control where it goes. Outside phenomena not part of the hurricane itself influence its direction and intensity. These outside phenomena include wind speed and strength of the gusts, th…

Jul 01, 2020

Hurricanes! The word elicits fear from many who have experienced how severe these storms can be. In fact, hurricanes are the world’s most deadly storms.Of course, when a hurricane is careening toward your home, the only thing you want to know about it is its speed, the wind velocity, what catego…

Jun 16, 2020

A recent surge of heat and humidity in the Midwest and Northeast of the U.S. triggered severe thunderstorms that plunged 650,000 electric customers into darkness on Wednesday, June 10, 2020.Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky were pelted with wind and rain on Wednesday afternoon when a cold fron…

Jun 08, 2020

Tropical storm Cristobal struck central and south Mississippi with maximum winds of about 50 mph on Sunday, June 7, 2020. Residents of central and south Mississippi witnessed wind peaks of about 40 mph through the overnight hours into Monday morning, June 8. More than 22,700 electric customers w…

May 13, 2020

For residents of the southeast United States who worry about hurricanes every year, AccuWeather is predicting a possible early beginning to this year’s hurricane season. Commonly, hurricane season starts around June 1. That’s about when the first tropical or subtropical storm is expected off the …

May 06, 2020

More than 130,000 Tennesseans were without power on Sunday night, May 3, 2020 after multiple severe thunderstorms ravaged the center of the state including Nashville.The severe storm included winds as high as 60 to 70 mph that knocked down power lines, collapsed trees, and plunged the region into…

Apr 28, 2020

As many as 60,000 electric utility customers in Mississippi and another 150,000 customers from Texas through Georgia were without power as a result of severe spring storms on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Alabama Power reported that 3,000 of its customers were without power in Brewton and East Brew…