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GOES satellite view of the event region THE WEATHER BEAT · OCT 31 Jasper's wettest day on record: 10.2 inches of rain on October 31, 2013. On Halloween 2013 the Jasper, Texas, gauge measured 10.2 inches of rain, the wettest day in our archive of NOAA station records. By the Weather Rock, 7:40 a.m.
THE WEATHER BEAT Major flooding forecast on the San Juan River at Pagosa Springs as Southwest flood watches cover five states. OCT 31 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 The Halloween Blizzard of 1991: Duluth's snowiest day on record, 24.1 inches on November 1. GOES satellite view of the event region Duluth measured 24.1 inches on November 1, 1991 and Two Harbors 24.0 inches the next day, each its snowiest day on record, in what NWS Duluth calls the. OCT 30 · By the Weather Rock THE WEATHER BEAT Gardiner's wettest day on record: 8.3 inches of rain on October 30, 1886. GOES satellite view of the event region On October 30, 1886, the Gardiner, Maine, gauge measured 8.3 inches of rain, the wettest day in our archive and the oldest record it holds for this date. OCT 30 · By the Weather Rock THE WEATHER BEAT First flash flood warnings under the West Texas flood watch: Howard, Mitchell, Scurry, Dawson and Gaines counties. GOES satellite view of the event region NWS Midland/Odessa issued two flash flood warnings at 11:43 a.m. CDT Friday for five counties, with 1 to 2 inches of rain reported at issue time. OCT 30 · By the Weather Rock THE WEATHER BEAT One weak tornado near Danbury, Wisconsin, inside Wednesday's 5 percent line, and hail to 3 inches in Minnesota. GOES satellite view of the event region Wednesday's reader check answered: one preliminary tornado over Love Lake near Danbury, Wisconsin, with no damage reported, and a measured 3.00 inch. OCT 29 · By the Weather Rock

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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

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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
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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.