Category: The National Weather Service

Quiet Start to Hurricane Season May Be Due to Saharan Dust Phenomenon

PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—The new hurricane season in Florida has been quiet so far in 2022, with the tropics seemingly sleeping at the moment. Forecasters are predicting no tropical development for the next 10 days and that may be attributed to a phenomenon known as Saharan Dust. It is a large plume of Saharan dust that travels…


Bitter Cold and Ice Storms Forecast for North, Central United States

A weather system already punishing the Midwestern United States with the coldest temperatures of the winter was forecast to spin to the south and west on Wednesday, prompting ice storm warnings and likely hazardous travel conditions. The cell of arctic high pressure sitting over Canada that has driven temperatures some 20 or 30 degrees below…