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GOES satellite view of the event region THE WEATHER BEAT · SEP 16 Iowa ran out of room for the rain, and canyon country had its own flood evening. Adair County reported closed roads on 2 to 4 inches of rain Tuesday evening, while 14 flash flood warnings ran from Utah slot canyons to the Texas South. By the Weather Rock, 9:30 a.m.
THE WEATHER BEAT Where to get help: the Iowa and Southwest floods. SEP 16 FIELD REPORTS Ghost Rain, Then the Real Thing. SEP 3 EXPLAINERS Rain or Snow: the Line. AUG 29 EXPLAINERS Why Summer Storms Pick the Afternoon. AUG 28
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The Weather Beat

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THE WEATHER BEAT Hurricane Lowell passes west of Kauai. GOES satellite view of the event region Hurricane Lowell passed 110 miles northwest of Lihue with 105 mph winds; Kauai gusted to 75 mph while hurricane warnings held into Tuesday morning. SEP 8 · By the Weather Rock THE WEATHER BEAT Hurricane Warning for Kauai and Niihau as Lowell makes its closest pass tonight. GOES satellite view of the event region Kauai and Niihau are under a Hurricane Warning. Category 3 Lowell, 415 miles out at 2 a.m., passes just west of the islands tonight into Tuesday morning. SEP 7 · By the Weather Rock THE WEATHER BEAT Tropical Storm Warning issued for Kauai and Niihau as Lowell begins its turn. GOES satellite view of the event region A Tropical Storm Warning covers Kauai and Niihau. Category 3 Lowell, 580 miles out, is forecast to pass 100 to 200 miles west of Kauai Monday night. SEP 6 · By the Weather Rock THE WEATHER BEAT Why Saturday's Showers Crossed New England From North to South. GOES satellite view of the event region On September 5 the showers over Connecticut moved north to south, the wrong way for this sky. The setup that did it, from NOAA analyses and our own radar. SEP 6 · By the Weather Rock

Explainers

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Branches of bright red maple leaves against a deep blue autumn sky dotted with small white clouds. EXPLAINERS Why Is the Sky Blue? The sun sends white light. The sky hands you blue. Something in between is picking favorites. Satellite view of bands of lake-effect snow clouds streaming eastward off the Great Lakes over snow-covered ground. EXPLAINERS Lake-Effect Snow: How a Lake Builds a Blizzard. One town digs out of three feet. Ten miles away, sunshine. The lake decides. GOES satellite view of a long plume of jet-stream moisture curling across the Pacific toward the US West Coast. EXPLAINERS The Jet Stream: The River That Runs the Weather. Five miles over your head, a river of wind is deciding what next week feels like. White rime ice crystals coating every branch and twig of trees against a dark blue sky in the Great Smoky Mountains. EXPLAINERS Morning Frost: Ice That Was Never Dew. Frost is not frozen dew. It skipped the liquid step entirely, which is why it sparkles. Fresh snow piled along the bare branches of a tree on a hushed gray winter day. EXPLAINERS Why the World Goes Quiet When It Snows. The hush is not your imagination. It is acoustics, falling out of the sky. A dark shelf cloud marking the leading edge of a storm advancing over a green Oklahoma prairie. EXPLAINERS Warm Fronts, Cold Fronts, and How to Read the Map. The triangles and half circles on the map are tomorrow's weather, drawn in advance.
In plain text, no photograph yet Reading a Weather Map. AUG 27 Know Your Clouds. AUG 26 Why Forecasts Go Wrong. AUG 25 Warm Air Rises. AUG 24 Air Pressure and the Falling Glass. AUG 23 How a Cloud Lets Go. AUG 22 The Wet-Bulb Number. AUG 21

The Receipts

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THE RECEIPTS The Standings. Forecast grades, town by town, printed whether they flatter the rock or not. Updated nightly · By the Weather Rock THE RECEIPTS Rock Bottom: Week 33, 2026. The five worst calls I made all week, counted down, coast to coast, receipts attached. Somebody has to grade the rock. It might as well be the rock. AUG 17 · By the Weather Rock

Tales

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TALES The Night We Were the Opening Act. Five weather rocks crudely pasted onto a concert stage under purple lights, visible white cutout edges and all. Five cousins, one festival, and a stage crew that decided moving us was somebody else's job. The photographic evidence has been questioned by everyone but us. AUG 6 · By the Weather Rock

What's New

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The Journal Gets a Front Page. AUG 20 Twenty Lessons on the Trail. AUG 19 Sharper Rain Calls. AUG 19 Smoother Under the Thumb. AUG 19
Journalist Weather Rock: the googly-eyed weather rock wearing a press hat with a PRESS card in the band.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Weather Journal.

A weather education publication, kept by a rock. Real reporting and plain-English explainers carry receipts; the family stories carry none. Every entry is labeled so you can tell, and the What's New column writes down the work instead of shipping it in silence.