Nation Gets Rare Break From Endless Disasters: Rare Week Of No Big U.S. Weather Hazards

Roseanne Roseannadanna consistently said, "It's
always something," but today, in a rare treat,
there's nothing. At least in terms of weather
hazards across the United States. 

 Every morning when I'm thinking about this here blog thingy, I check the National Weather Service hazards pages to see what fresh hell the United States is in for. 

As Roseanne Roseannadanna would say, It's always something. This year has been one helluva ride with tornadoes, severe weather, floods, heat waves, cold snaps, winter storms, hurricanes, drought, you name it. Probably even locusts.

Today, Nada. 

It's actually pretty rare to see no major weather extremes going on anywhere in the United States. 

But this morning, the United States gets a real, very rare treat: The National Weather Service is pretty much coming up empty with forecasted weather hazards this week.  Enjoy it. With climate change and El Nino raging, this calm won't last. 

I did check everything:

The current, immediate warning page this morning had alerts for frosts and freezes in Kansas and western Oklahoma, alerts for potential high winds in parts of Montana, and forecasts of minor coastal flooding in New Jersey and Delaware.  In other words, nothing much. 

For tropical storms and hurricanes, lame little Tropical Storm Sean way out in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean died a pitiful death. There's another disturbance out there that has a good shot at becoming Tropical Storm Tammy, but that won't happen until a week or more.  

The National Weather Service severe thunderstorm and tornado page showed the chance of a few non-severe thunderstorms in the Pacific Northwest today, and no thunderstorms at all anywhere in the Lower 48 Tuesday and Wednesday. No severe storm outbreaks are forecast for the next week. 

Next it was on to wildfire hazards.  You can still  get some nasty wildfires, especially in southern California this time of year. Nope, nothing there. 

I almost always find signs of trouble on the NWS Weather Prediction Page, which forecasts excessive rains and winter storms.  There are no early season winter storms in the offing. And, for the first time in ages, I found no signs of any flooding concerns in the Lower 48 for the next five days. 

The Weather Prediction Page did find signs of possibly heavy rains in New England and New York this coming Saturday, but so far it doesn't look like it would be enough to cause any flooding worries.

Extended forecasts into early next week also don't show any real weather hazards in the United States. Of course, that could change, as predictions are always adjusted and a new weather risk might pop up somewhere. But for now, everybody can relax.

They say that no news is good news, and that's certainly the case here.