Category: GWC News
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Harvey’s Remnants Bring Some Rain to Garden State
Rains from Saturday Evening into Sunday Nearly Total an Inch Clouds from Harvey’s remains move in on Sparta, New Jersey on Saturday afternoon While Eastern Texas and Louisiana are still recovering from the devastation brought by Hurricane Harvey over the past week, the remains from that same storm moved east and brought its leftover rains…
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The Harvey Saga Continues As Storm Moves Out Over Water Again
The Relentless Storm Regaining Strength Again From Warm Waters of Gulf The City of Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States, is in a state of desperate paralysis as flood waters continue to rise from torrential rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey. Once a Category Four Hurricane prior to landfall down the Texas coast…
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Watching Potential Cyclone Ten off Southeast Coast
Invest 92L Getting Its Act Together, and Could Be Irma Within Five Days While the catastrophic flooding is taking place in Southeastern Texas from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, the Atlantic Tropics continue to stir up as Invest 92L is getting its act together. The National Hurricane Center has noticed, and issued its first advisory…
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Catastrophe Unfolding in Southeastern Texas
As Bands of Rain Continue to Pour In Houston Area, Historic Flood Builds Over the past several days, I have woken up in the middle of the night, but at about 3:00 AM this morning, there was a different feeling that I had. Once I took a look at my Twitter and Facebook feeds on…
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The Real Problem Begins as Harvey Weakens to Tropical Storm
The Focus with Storm Now Goes to Heavy Rain and Flooding Late Friday night, Harvey came ashore as a Category Four Hurricane near the town of Rockport at about 10:00 PM CDT, or about 11:00 PM EDT. Wind gusts in Rockport were as high as 132 miles per hour, and the devastation in the town…
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Thunderstorms Roll Through New Jersey on Tuesday Night
Coming home from a seminar that I was at in South Brunswick, I could see the flashes of lightning off in the distance as I was about to get off Interstate 287 in Piscataway. I checked the radar when I got home, and found that a solid line of storms was pushing into New Jersey…
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Countdown to the Solar Eclipse Is On
Less than 48 hours until the 1st Solar Eclipse in North America Since 1979 The strong storms that moved through the Mid-Atlantic on Friday are gone, and fair weather has moved in for the most part over the Garden State. There was an area of thunderstorms pushing through Central Pennsylvania earlier tonight as the result…
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Severe Weather Possible Across New Jersey on Friday
Flash Flood Watch in Effect; High Winds, Hail, and Even Tornadoes Possible Over the past few days, the heat and humidity has been on the increase across New Jersey. Skies have been overcast and conditions have been muggy throughout the morning and early afternoon at Greg’s Weather Center in South Plainfield, NJ after some showers…
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Last Stand for the Summer Heat and Humidity?
Three Days in Lower 90s Could Be Last of Season There has been a lot of talk here in my blog lately about the tropics in terms of the storms that have been spinning up, or those that have the potential to. However, the theme of the Summer of 2016 has been the heat and…
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Say Adios to Hermine
NHC Issues Final Advisory for Troublesome Storm The long odyssey is over for New Jersey residents as well as others living in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast. As of 2:00 PM EDT this afternoon, the last advisory on Post-Tropical Cyclone Hermine was issued by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida. All Tropical Storm and Coastal…