On 20 February 2025, high winds at Pago Pago International Airport (located at 14.3oS, 170.7oW) meant Hawaiian Airlines Flight 465 (an A330 with 160 passengers on board) was forced to return to Honolulu (News Article; FlightAware screenshot) without its scheduled landing in Pago Pago. American Samoa at the time was within the... Read More
Very cold air over the Great Lakes on 17 February helped lead to the development of one long Lake-Effect Snow (LES) band that stretched from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan east-southeastward to Lake Huron then over the Bruce Peninsula and into eastern Lake Ontario and on to the Tug Hill... Read More
The past few days have brought devastating rain and flooding to the Australian state of Queensland, in the country’s northeast. The community of Paluma received more than 1.4 meters (4.5 feet) of rain over the weekend, and damage to roads and bridges carried out by the torrents of water have... Read More
GOES-18 Upper Level water vapor infrared imagery, above, (source) shows a stream of upper-level moisture moving over southeastern Alaska on the east side of a cyclonic system over western Alaska on 27 January 2025. This large storm moved warm and moist air northward into Alaska; several stations tied record warm... Read More
