Why Was Wednesday Windy?
Posted: 5:55 PM Early Thursday morning, a strong cold front made its way through the Brazos Valley. The front brought extremely gusty winds, rain, colder temperatures, and even some dust.
Posted: 5:55 PM Early Thursday morning, a strong cold front made its way through the Brazos Valley. The front brought extremely gusty winds, rain, colder temperatures, and even some dust.
Updated: 12:35 PM The first major snowstorm to hit the Midwest this season is sweeping across the region, shuttering schools and creating dangerous driving conditions.
Updated: 6:07 PM After setting record highs in the 80s on Wednesday, gusty and colder conditions are in store for the Brazos Valley today after our latest cold front blasted in overnight.
Updated: 8:15 AM State environmental regulators are tightening the screws on water diversions in the Brazos River Basin as the drought worsens in Central Texas and the river's headwaters.
Updated: 9:19 AM A new Associated Press-GfK poll finds that about 4 out of 5 Americans now think temperatures are rising and that global warming will be a serious problem for the United States if nothing is done about it.
Updated: 9:12 AM Vodka saved two circus elephants in Russia from the deadly Siberian cold.
Posted: 6:25 PM Tonight marks the peak of the Geminids Meteor Shower with 50+ meteors an hour in the night sky.
Posted: 2:21 PM A Freeze Warning is in effect for most of the Brazos Valley tonight and into tomorrow morning.
Updated: 7:35 PM After flirting with or setting record high temperatures so far in December, winter is arriving in Texas with a vengeance.
Posted: 2:55 PM Around the Brazos Valley, we have seen several foggy mornings and days. It comes with the territory of being in a more humid environment. Although fog looks the same anywhere it forms, there are multiple reasons why we see it. In this blog, we discover what radiation fog is and how it forms.
Posted: 5:39 PM Around the Brazos Valley, we have seen several foggy mornings and days. It comes with the territory of being in a more humid environment. Although fog looks the same anywhere it forms, there are multiple reasons why we see it. In this blog, we discover what evaporation fog is and how it forms.
Posted: 4:47 PM Today, November 30, is the official last day of hurricane season. This doesn't necessarily mean that hurricanes cannot form after this day. However, it is highly unlikely.
Posted: 1:28 PM Believe it or not, Houston had a tornado outbreak of its own almost 20 years ago.
Updated: 10:57 AM The North Taurid Meteor Shower will be at its peak November 12th-November 13th.
Posted: 10:54 AM Hurricane Sandy has been rumbling across the mountains of eastern Cuba and is heading toward the Bahamas.
Posted: 4:10 PM The Weather Channel announced earlier this week that they are going to start naming winter storms during the 2012-2013 winter storm season. Notable names include Q, Gandolf, and Yogi. They are the first nationwide weather group to start naming winter storms.
Updated: 8:55 AM After a summer of just "abnormally dry" conditions, D1 - "Moderate Drought" officially returns to parts of the Brazos Valley.
Posted: 5:14 PM We are in the middle of hurricane season and already have a hurricane named Michael in the Atlantic Ocean. From memorable storms like Katrina to easily forgettable ones like Beryl, naming a tropical system has always been a ‘weather wonder’. Do random people name hurricanes after themselves? Is it the first person to notice it’s formed? After much research, I have found the answer.
Posted: 5:16 PM With Tropical Storm Isaac wreaking havoc across the Gulf Coast, along with two other named storms churning in the Atlantic, you may wonder why all of a sudden these storms have formed when we haven’t seen much activity in the past few months. Hurricane season typically runs from June 1 to November 30. Fluctuations in the amount of active storms are common throughout the season.
Posted: 10:57 AM Louisiana officials have ordered evacuation of low-lying, sparsely-populated areas along the Tangipahoa River because an Isaac-hammered dam at a state park lake in southwest Mississippi near the Louisiana border is in danger of failing.
Updated: 5:20 PM Twitter's Response to #Isaac
Updated: 7:17 AM NEW ORLEANS - Hurricane Isaac is lashing New Orleans as it approaches and pushing flood waters over a rural levee south of the city, where authorities believe some people may be trapped.