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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Wyatt Williams
A derecho passed over the entirety of North Dakota on Friday night. Stretching more than 400 miles from Montana to Minnesota, the thunderstorm complex produced multiple tornadoes and wreaked havoc across the state. With devastation covering the vast distance of the state, reports were only beginning to emerge on Saturday morning. The Cass County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that three people had died as a result of tornadoes in Enderlin, a rural community southwest of Fargo, ND.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Wyatt Williams
This week's question comes from Morning Brief reader Maddie Stehling, who asks, "I want to be a meteorologist as my job. What are some steps I can do now to prepare to become a meteorologist? What schools are the best for meteorology, too?"Intern Miriam Guthrie: Hi Maddie! I'm a meteorologist intern on the content team. I just graduated in May from Georgia Tech with my bachelor's in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Wyatt Williams
At least two people have died in West Virginia, where flash flooding hit Wheeling and nearby Triadelphia and Valley Grove areas. Between 2 to 4 inches of rain fell within a matter of hours late Saturday, which quickly overwhelmed and flooded the nearby Appalachian creeks and waterways. Wheeling Creek rose from 3 feet at 8:45 pm to roughly 10 feet at 10:15, a 7-foot jump in an hour and a half.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Wyatt Williams
For the serious gardener, summer travel plans pose a complicated choice. The summer heat and rain can be great for the growing season, but, left unattended, many of us are all too familiar with the way these weather extremes can kill the plants we’ve cared for. On the other hand, what are you supposed to do? Stay home all summer and never travel just to take care of your plant babies?
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2 weeks ago | 
aol.com | Wyatt Williams
After a day of rain, the organizers of Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival 2025 in Manchester, Tennessee have called the whole thing off. In a statement released on Friday evening, organizers said, "Significant and steady precipitation [...] will deteriorate camping and egress conditions in the coming days.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Wyatt Williams
At first glance, you might wonder where a recipe for something called “Tandoori Tacos” comes from. In India, a clay oven called a tandoor is used to cook meats marinated in yogurt. Tacos are, of course, one of the most beloved dishes of Mexico. The author of this recipe, Zaynab Issa, grew up in New Jersey, the child of immigrant parents from Tanzania.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Wyatt Williams
Here at Ask A Met, we get lots of questions about hail, but none as unique as this one from Morning Brief reader Tim from Illinois, who writes in to ask, "If someone were to drop frozen peas in a cloud, would they come down like hail, perhaps adding extra layers before falling?"Digital Meteorologist Sara Tonks: OK, so I actually did the math for this question. Which might sound unnecessary, but I really like math problems that are kind of gratuitous.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Wyatt Williams
This week Morning Brief reader Lynda Buckler writes, "I’ve wondered why a plane couldn’t fly above a tornado cloud and drop something into the cloud to disperse the funnel? I read of tornados traveling miles and miles with destruction in their path…so?"Senior Digital Meteorologist Jonathan Belles: Well, just to begin historically, I’m not aware of anyone attempting to divert a tornado, but we have diverted rain clouds. In fact, this has famously been done around the Olympics.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Wyatt Williams
Scott Clark knows a little about being on the coast. His restaurant, Dad’s Luncheonette, is a train caboose parked on the Pacific Coast Highway in Half Moon Bay. This casual destination, which serves simple but thoughtfully prepared sandwiches, bowls of soup, and slices and pie, overlooks the Pacific Ocean. “That’s the water I’m in every day of my life, fishing and kayaking, foraging and surfing,” Clark writes in his recent cookbook Coastal: 130 Recipes from a California Road Trip.
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3 weeks ago | 
weather.com | Wyatt Williams
Just like summer, tomato season is a fleeting experience. It is best experienced standing over the kitchen sink, eating a simple tomato sandwich. By Wyatt Williams less than an hour ago The window between an underripe tomato and one that has gone mealy and bad is fleeting but beautiful. That's why it is the perfect for summer. (Photo By Karl Gehring/The Denver Post via Getty Images)There are a few infallible ways to kick off the first day of summer. You can jump in a swimming pool.
