Weekly Front

Fifty-eight years is a long time.Long enough for homes to be rebuilt. Long enough for trees to grow back over neighborhoods that once looked like war zones. Long enough for children wh…

There are few things in weather that stop you in your tracks like hail.Not rain. Not wind. Not even lightning, really. But hail—especially the kind we saw this week across parts of Nor…

There are few things in weather that stop you in your tracks like hail.Not rain. Not wind. Not even lightning, really. But hail—especially the kind we saw this week across parts of Nor…

We don’t name winter storms in the Midwest.But if we did, this one would already have it.The Blizzard of 2026.Not because of hype or headlines — but because of how it performed.From Sa…

On the afternoon of March 6, a single supercell thunderstorm formed in northern Indiana and tracked northeast into southern Lower Michigan. In just over an hour, the storm produced fou…

There’s an old saying: you can take the weatherman out of weather, but you can’t take the weather out of the weatherman.Last week, I was reminded of that.I had the opportunity to sit d…

When I was a kid, I was a creature of habit — especially when it came to weather.Every winter I would stare out at the snow and wonder: Is this the year it never melts? Is this the yea…

If you lived here in Iowa in 2025, you probably noticed something that felt a little unusual: tornado season didn’t feel much like tornado season.That doesn’t mean storms skipped us. W…

Every February, the phrase “the day the music died” returns to the American consciousness. It’s a lyric, a memory, a moment frozen in time. But before it became poetry, it was a winter…