7/29 - 3:30pm - 5.4 Los Angeles Earthquake

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A 5.4 magnitude earthquake centered just east of Downtown L.A. occurred just before noon PDT. There are no initial reports of damage or injuries, but communications (cellular, landlines) have been disabled in some parts of the Los Angeles area.

5/12 - 4pm - Nice Couple of Days

The advertised clearing and warming for today came as expected and boy did it sure make a difference! Tomorrow looks like a similar situation, but temperatures will soar into the mid to upper 70's instead. Thunderstorms come in the picture on Wednesday and Thursday with a general slight chance of rain and mostly cloudy skies for the weekend.

A deadly 7.9 (according to USGS) earthquake has hit China killing thousands of people. Click here for more information. After the cyclone and the earthquake, it's been quite a troubling couple of weeks in Asia.

After rampant severe weather problems in the Eastern part of the US, it looks like more might be on the way. The SPC has issued severe weather outlooks for TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, and FL for Thursday through Saturday. We can't seem to get a break!

Only 12 days left!

5/1 - 4pm - Derby Looks Good, More Aftershocks

We're just outside of a SLIGHT risk for severe storms Friday night as they weaken going east. I don't think we'll have much of a problem here, but it looks like there could be issues in Southern Illinois with a moderate risk out there.

Derby looks good with temperatures in the lower 70's and a possible small shower. Winds are gusty right now in Louisville, which could impact the large balloons at the Pegasus Parade.

Also, Illinois has had another resurgence in aftershocks over the last couple of days. Yesterday evening a 2.6 was recorded and today a 3.3 was recorded. It'll be interesting to see what else comes out of the active area in Illinois. I received a link from Brent in Illinois today of some security video with sound of the big 5.2 a couple weeks ago. You can view it here. Just click on the first yellow link on the page.

4/22 - 8:30pm - Happy Earth Day!

Wow! What an excellent day we had today... upper 70's with very few clouds. We'll see more of the same for tomorrow, with a small chance for rain by Thursday. Temperatures will take a dip by Monday, with highs in the mid 60's. No chance for severe weather in sight, so things will stay quiet around here for quite some time.

We're in a very quiet pattern right now, especially for this late in April. I'm expecting a flare up in severe weather at some point here, maybe by the first or second week in May. This is just a sitting and waiting game as we see when the springtime severe pattern rears its head.

We haven't had any aftershocks today either, which is very good news. The only thing I saw from the USGS was a small 1.6 today near the origin of the 5.2 quake we had. I said yesterday that we could be dealing with this for some time based on some articles I read, but it looks like someone turned off the earthquake switch overnight. Hopefully we're through with geologic activity for a while.

Also, its just over a month now until my storm chasing adventure begins. If you haven't heard yet, I've been hired as a guide for Storm Chasing Adventure Tours for two weeks in May/June. We'll be chasing all around the Plains and, best of all, I'll have mobile Internet on the road. That means I can post live updates, pictures, and videos right here on my blog! Hopefully the severe season ramps up for the two weeks that I'm out there...

4/21 - 4pm - Another Shaker, Nice Weather

I didn't feel this one, but this morning at 1:38am EDT we had another earthquake in Illinois. This one was a 4.5, so we felt it in Louisville. There was no damage here from it, but this is the sign times to come. It looks like we could be dealing with aftershocks for quite a while due to the persistence of activity. Hopefully we don't get anything worse than a 5.2 again, because it seems thats the damage threshold for this area and the threshold for many people's nerves around here. We're not known for many earthquakes like this, so this is very strange to many. I've read reports that these are both good or bad. They can be good by relieving the fault of its pressure, but bad by possibly waking up the New Madrid fault, just south of the area we're getting our quakes from. We don't want to hear from the New Madrid anytime soon...

At least the weather's good though! We're steady at 70 degrees in the suburbs right now and that pattern looks to continue until at least Thursday. Temperatures will be on the rise as well, but nothing above the lower 80's. We'll also have more fog tomorrow morning. There was so much fog this morning in my neighborhood that not even my fog lights on my car did any good. Be careful out there!

4/18 - 5:30pm - Earthquake!

I've never felt an earthquake before. That was until this morning when I was shaken out of bed by a 5.2 magnitude rumbler from Illinois. It lasted for about 15-20 seconds and broke a model airplane on my desk in my room. It started very gently and ramped up until my windows were vibrating pretty good. At first I was afraid that the New Madrid fault had finally roared to life and left Memphis in ruins. Luckily it was just a moderate quake out in Illinois, one that could be felt even in Ohio! At 11:14am, as I was going to lunch at school, a 4.6 magnitude aftershock came through. We thought it was a train that was going by the school at the time, but after a while it was pretty evident that it was another quake.

Click here for a video of the quake live on WAVE3 during a morning newscast.


I can't forecast earthquakes folks, but that was sure interesting! Our weather will get a little interesting as showers and thunderstorms (not severe) roll through here tonight through tomorrow night. We'll clear out on Sunday and Monday with temperatures back in the 70's with more rain mid week. The coolest day this week is Saturday in the lower 60's; The rest of the week will be in the 70's!