Weather, Storms & Hurricane Blog

December 2007 Plains Ice Storm

A significant Ice Storm is affecting a large portion of the central Untied States, from the Great Plains into the Midwest and Great Lakes. Northern Oklahoma and much of Kansas, seeing significant icing on roadways and tree’s, causing power outages and very dangerous road conditions. 15 people alone have died in Oklahoma mostly from traffic accidents. The state of Oklahoma is under a state of emergency.

The Ice storm continues this morning and trails from Oklahoma across into Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and the Great Lakes region. North of this boundary of freezing rain, heavy snow is falling, making a white December for many over the Central U.S. The nation went from a slow boring weather pattern, to a intense deadly winter ice storm.

Yeah The Tropical Are Active Again - Olga

Much further south into the northern Caribbean Islands, a December Sun-tropical Storm named Olga, is bringing heavy tropical rains and winds to locations like in Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic overnight and this morning. This freak off-season storm that wrapped up yesterday, was named by the National Hurricane Center at 10pm last night as radar and satellite observation showed a well enough developed low-level circulation with convection, and wind reports of sustained tropical storm force.

I was pretty shocked myself when I received a text message of the first advisory, while I sat and watched TV. Sub-Tropical Storm Olga has weakened since last night and is now starting to deal with the very high mountains of Hispaniola. Olga will likely not survive the trek across the mountainous island today. I’ll continue to monitor the December wanna-be hurricane as it could bring life threatening flash flooding to Hispaniola today and tonight.

It would be nice if the northern end of Olga could bring in some much needed rains to Southern Florida by the middle of the week. I’ll be watching and hoping on any left over’s from Subtropical Storm Olga’s December surprise.

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