With little sign of anything warmer than 5-10 degrees below average temperature for the next week or so, let’s take a look at how long it should take us to get to 60°. Believe it or not, our average temperature on April 24th is 60°…that’s only eight weeks away!

So with any luck we’ll begin to feel the [...]

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Tuesday, NASA released a blockbuster claim that 2009 tied for the second warmest year in recorded history! And Wednesday, NOAA details the warming we’ve seen in January 2010. While the majority of the United States was unequivocably cold, the majority of the world was very warm (or hot in the Southern Hemisphere’s summer).
Here are some excerpts. [...]

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Almost everyone I talked to today out at the Kiwanis Pancake Feed was really concerned about spring flooding. Of course since I’m a meteorologist, I usually get the questions and concerns about the weather. Well, the Valley News Live Weather team has a great series for you to check out- and it’s all about flooding. Tune [...]

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After today and yesterday’s snowfall across the south, there is snow cover in all lower 48 states. And after some careful research there may be snow in all 50… well possibly. There’s no question there’s snow in Alaska, but Hawaii? Yep, in the higher elevations there is often snow. So often in fact, that there [...]

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I’m sure you probably heard about another snow storm that has hit the east coast today. They sure have had a rough go of it this year… well really we all have. It’s been a very active winter- full of extremes for us. We’ve experienced a really wet October, record warm November, and a very [...]

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Have you ever seen the aurora? It is absolutely breathtaking. I saw it about 6 years ago along Lake Superior in Wisconsin. There was a curtain of green. I’ve also seen red aurora in Massachusetts, where I grew up. That one wasn’t as spectacular- really it just looked like low cloud reflecting the city lights, [...]

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Welcome to the new Valley News Live Weather Blog!  This space will be a great source for anyone who is interested in weather, the environment, general science, or the in’s and out’s of working in the field of  TV Meteorology. We welcome your comments! Enjoy!

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TODAY: Snowfall will be light, but steady through today, tonight, tomorrow and Sunday. Fargo could get an event total of 6-7 inches, with up to 8 inches in northern Minnesota. In Grand Forks, up to 4 inches is possible with about 5 to 6″ near Devils Lake. Temps will be steady in the upper 20s [...]

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