4 years ago today, a monstrous supercell exploded like... a nuke over Chicagoland. This storm exceeded 65K feet in height and caused damage to much of the CHI metro, dropping a few weak tornadoes. If shear was better, a tornado disaster may have transpired #ilwxshow more

MULTI-VORTEX TORNADO moments ago near Cope, Colorado, in an... open field! Crazy supercell continues through very rural parts of Colorado, with this supercell producing giant hail and a few quick tornadoes! Connor Croffshow more

Two years ago today: this supercell in Southern New... Hampshire that produced a tornado in Dublin a couple hours earlier. Not exactly the storm structure you see every day in New England. -- June 23, 2024 Stratham, New Hampshireshow more

5 years ago today, Hurricane Delta explosively intensified like... a cryogenic, liquid oxygen turbopump in the Caribbean Sea, going from a weak Tropical Storm to a 130 MPH Category 4 in just 24 hours.show more

The Kankakee Supercell is one of the most unbelievable... Storms I’ve seen in a long time. This Supercell was an absolute MONSTER. It ⬇️ • Maintained a Mesocyclone for OVER 7 HOURS • Triggered 7 PDS Tornado Warnings • Produced the FIRST Tornado Emergency of the year This thing was a Tornado producing machine for HOURs. God, please be with the people affected by this Storm. Please give them your abundant LOVE 🙏show more

10 years ago, after narrowly winning the referendum, Boris... Johnson confessed, "We didn't have a plan for what to do next" "We didn't think it was our job to have a plan" 10 years later, Brexit continues to be a disaster How much more damage to our economy, may many more billions lost, how many more public services underfunded, till the UK get's a political leader who is honest with the public about the damage caused by Brexit and takes the UK back into the EU?show more

A likely intense to violent tornado struck the city... of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu in Paraná, Brazil, causing severe damage to buildings and trees and destroying numerous structures. Damage suggests this tornado may have reached EF4 intensity.show more

A freak weather event this afternoon has caused serious... damage to property and cars in Leitrim Village.  Some locals say it felt like a tornado ripping through the village #leitrim #leitrimvillage #leitrimtornadoshow more

In this 45 minute loop from SW OK, we've... witnessed... 1) RFD surge initiate a strong tornado 2) TVS with GTG shear of 260+ MPH (600 FT beam height) 3) Tornado retrograde as it occluded 4) "Hurricane eye" BWER 5) Strong anticyclonic tornado emerge to the south #OKwxshow more

25 years ago today, Tropical Storm Allison made landfall... into the city of Houston, Texas. Even though her sustained winds never exceeded 60 mph, and her core pressure bottomed out at a paltry 1,000 mbar, she claimed 50 lives and caused nearly $15 billion in damages after stalling out for 5 DAYS over East Texas. More than 3 feet of rainfall was dropped. In Houston alone, Allison’s swampy fiefdom of freshwater flooding inundated ~70,000 homes. One of the most well-known examples of a cyclone’s strength not equating to its destructive potential on land.show more

🇱🇧 Today marks 6 years since one of the... wildest explosions in modern history On August 4 2020, Beirut was devastated when around 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored for years in a port warehouse exploded 218 people died, over 7,000 were injured, and it caused over $15 billion worth of damage to properties It ranks among the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded and is considered the biggest single ammonium nitrate detonation in history Writer: Ianshow more

Video confirmation of a waterspout in the Delaware Bay... coming ashore this evening and becoming a tornado over Cape May Point, N.J.. Hoping there is minimal damage and no injuries. (Video credit: Bob Mullins) #CapeMayTornadoshow more

6 Years Ago - August 10, 2020 Derecho: The... costliest derecho on record impacted much of the Midwest through the morning and afternoon hours six years ago today. This destructive MCS produced an extreme swath of severe winds, with a peak wind gust report of 126mph near Atkins, Iowa. 27 tornadoes were confirmed from the complex, most of them in Northern Illinois. Unfortunately, 4 fatalities were confirmed from the complex. This derecho resulted in over $11 billion in damages.show more