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Persistent cold and windy conditions across western Alaska led to widespread heavy to extreme freezing spray off the southwest Alaska coast and along the Alaska Peninsula on on 9 March 2026. The large scale pattern causing these conditions was discussed in the March 9 NWS Anchorage, AK AFD: “Taking a look at satellite imagery, a […]

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Over the past week, Hawaii has been soaked by a relentless deluge, largely driven by a persistent Kona Low. The NWS Weather Prediction Center (WPC) highlighted the signal for heavy rainfall early, as stated in its Hawaii Extended Forecast Discussion issued early on 06 March 2026: “A multi-day flash flood risk is becoming increasingly likely … …

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The Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) on the GOES-East satellite is best known for observing lightning over a majority of the America’s and the Atlantic Ocean. However the GLM has one unexpected utility that transcends lightning…detecting bright meteors as the burn up in Earth’s atmosphere. These bright meteors, called bolides, flicker as they burn up while ...

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A significant severe weather outbreak occurred across the central US on 10 March 2026, producing widespread large hail, damaging winds, and numerous destructive tornadoes within a corridor from SW TX to western MI. In particular, parts of Illinois experienced large tornadoes and very large hail, with several reports of hail well over 5″ in diameter. […]

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A nationwide blackout occurred in Iraq on Wednesday, March 4th 2026. The Ministry of Electricity announced the shutdown of the country’s power grid, later saying the outage was due to “a technical issue caused by a sudden drop in gas supplies to the Rumaila gas power plant in Basra province” in southern Iraq. Using the […]

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