A cold snap in mid-January 2024 (Click here to see a High/Low temperature chart for Aurora Illinois from this site) led to rapid ice formation on the Kankakee River southwest of Chicago, and an ice jam with ice jam flooding subsequently developed. The map above shows different flood gauge records along... Read More

Damaging waves hit the Marshall Islands on 19 January 2024, causing considerable damage, and the northern shores of American Samoa on 22 January 2024, leaving behind considerable debris, as shown below (photos courtesy NWS Pago Pago). The waves could be tracked using Altimetric data as viewed at this NOAA/NESDIS website; data for the globe and also data around... Read More