Sep 16, 2020

Photo from https://abc13.com/ The pace of Hurricane Sally was slow, but it slammed into Gulf Shores, Alabama as a Category 2 storm with sustained winds of more than 105 mph. It pushed a seawater surge onto the coast and torrential rain that forecasters predict will result in dangerous floo…

Sep 14, 2020

The night skies looked otherworldly as residents of California, Washington, and Oregon contend with record wildfires and power outages due to record setting heat waves.Three large wildfires were still burning in California at 9:32 a.m. Wednesday, September 8, 2020. The Creek Fire has overwhelmed …

Aug 27, 2020

Hurricane Laura made landfall near Cameron, Louisiana, about 30 miles east of the Texas border at 1 a.m. CDT on Thursday, August 27, 2020. According to the National Hurricane Center, the Category 4 hurricane was slamming the coast with 150 mph winds. Cameron is a small community of only 400 resi…

Aug 25, 2020

During the past few days, meteorologists have been watching a possible one, two punch of tropical storms head for the U.S. Gulf Coast. However it appears that by Monday, August 24, one has weakened while the other has revved up toward a potential supercharged Category 3 hurricane.Tropical Storm M…

Aug 17, 2020

California is a state that has had problems with extreme hot summers that have led to electric utilities initiating rolling blackouts. Although the last blackout was in 2001, California continues with the problem.The blackouts are an attempt to try to conserve energy because residents are using m…

Aug 11, 2020

Standalone generators offered today feature technologies never before seen on generators. The technological innovations make the new generators run more efficiently, save on fuel, offers greater protection for your electric utilities and consumer electronics products and provides advantages…

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…