Abundance of tropical moisture abets multiple flash floods across Plains
Summer heat and thunderstorms have kicked in full-force across much of the contiguous U.S. over the last couple of weeks, with a generous helping of heat advisories, severe thunderstorm and tornado watches and warnings, and flood watches and warnings scattered...
Atlantic Tropics off to hot start with oddball Subtropical Storm Alberto
The 2018 Atlantic Hurricane season officially just began on June 1st, but the tropical action started a bit early this year as Subtropical Storm Alberto spun to life on May 25th near Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. While May storms are nothing new in the Atlantic,...
Late-Season Moisture Averts Return of California Drought
After several years of deep drought over much of California, last year’s deluge produced some relief and recovery for the state’s strained water supplies. November 2017 was much wetter than normal, at least across northern portions of California, inspiring...
A Winter Lacking Heavy Precipitation Across the U.S. Comes to a Much Wetter Close
The Extreme Precipitation Blog has been quiet this 2017-18 winter, and for good reason: much of the U.S. has simply not experienced significant heavy precipitation throughout the winter. Until, that is, the Mississippi and Ohio River Valley floods of mid-to-late...
The 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season in Review
As the devastating 2017 hurricane season comes to a close, we review the season statistics and present our preliminary analyses of rainfall associated with each of the 5 named storms that impacted the U.S. mainland this year.