Rick DeLuca
Meteorologist at WDRB-TV (Louisville, KY)
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
Space weather impacts numerous facets of everyday life, including power grids, communications, airline operations, global positioning systems (GPS), and satellites. In addition, there are a large variety of phenomena that are driven by the variability of the sun over periods ranging from hours to years. An X9 flare, which can be seen in the lower half of the sun, captured by GOES-19’s Solar Ultraviolet Imager (SUVI) instrument on Oct. 3, 2024.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
The Storm Prediction Center posted a severe risk 5 days into the future once again. They've drawn a zone along I-64 and points south that does include Louisville. Hear me out, I don't want you to cancel any plans because of the concern for severe weather on Saturday. It just does more harm than good to alarm people this far out for a low-end risk that could very well end up hundreds of miles away or on a completely different day.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
The Lyrids meteor shower, which peaks during late April, is one of the oldest known meteor showers. The Lyrids have been observed for 2,700 years. The first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor shower goes back to 687 BC by the Chinese. In 2025, our peak will fall on April 21-22nd or early Tuesday morning. The Moon will be 40% full muting the dimmest meteors, so I would lean toward the lower end of 10 - 15 meteors per hour.
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1 week ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
After unleashing dozens of destructive tornadoes, a slow-moving storm system dumped heavy rain across the U.S. Midwest and Southeast in early April 2025. In some areas, 10-15 inches (25-38 centimeters) fell between April 1 and 6. According to from the National Weather Service, the rain fueled major floods on several tributaries of the Mississippi River, particularly within the Ohio River watershed in Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, and along the Black River and White River in Arkansas.
The Ohio River Is Still Rising! When It Will Crest, Plus How Much Additional Rain Falls This Week...
2 weeks ago |
wdrb.com | Rick DeLuca
What a stressful and expensive situation we have on our hands. The Ohio River is raging along pushing billions of gallons of water into places that don't want it. Based on the current forecast, we will see a crest of 37.0' at 8 am Wednesday. That blows the 2018 crest out of the water, pun intended, and puts it up to the 8th highest crest on record! It rivals the flood back in 1997 which peaked at 38.76'. If you do the math, that's the worst river flooding we've experienced in 28 years.
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