CONFIRMED: Monette Manor a nursing home in Monette, Arkansas took a direct hit by a very large tornado & collapsed with patients inside. Docs/RNs are pleading for help.
@GRapidsnews
I would say delete this tweet. But hopefully it stands as an example of the real microaggressions people of color are getting lobbed at them on a daily basis.
Excellent video of a tornadic supercell cutting across the Kalamazoo/Barry County line.
You can see the clear rotation of the storm along with the definite lowering of the wall cloud. Video sent to us by Marina VanOver.
#StormHour
The newsroom is not standing for it.
Not only is it incredibly offensive to suggest Pride events be covered less than others -- the fact we were mandated to "curb our coverage" to appeal to a political belief goes against the very heart of what journalism is supposed to be.
A Grand Rapids TV station reportedly told its staff to cover less Pride events because of conservative viewers.
A memo said “If we are covering Pride events, we need to consider how to make the story balanced and get both sides of the issue.”
It's the same Storm Team 8, but a new chief! We're proud to announce that
@ellenbacca
has been named the first female chief meteorologist in West Michigan:
Most meteorologists at .
@NWS
rarely get the credit they deserve. Today's text forecast from .
@NWSGrandRapids
had a sweet farewell hidden inside.
Help me give this forecaster a round of applause and a big thank you for 31 years of service!
Ok very cool night. Honestly I’m still beside myself. I won not one, but two Emmys tonight! My very first ones. With COVID we didn’t have a ceremony or trophies. But my sweet husband bought me pineapples just in case I won!! Big thank you to my
@WOODTV
family
Life goal complete✔️
Ok this is so wild!!
Conditions were perfect for the morning sun to melt all the snow EXCEPT for in the shadows of the trees. As a result—- perfect shadows were etched in snowflakes on a morning pond outside of viewer Richard Attinoto’s home. Wow!
My one maternity photo!
Thank you for all the love, prayers, & support! 🤍
I’ve decided to start my leave today to unplug & de-stress.
Please continue to follow my stellar colleagues for timely weather updates!
@matthewkirkwood
@SaraFlynnWX
@wxblakeharms
@terrideboer
Our “weather girls” on staff have meteorology degrees. Pretty sure we covered hail formation in our first semester of our first year of college. Fun fact: it can happen year round.
Thanks tho Paula ;)
You won’t see me on TV tonight!
For the first time in 8 years I now have weekends off!!
It’s only temporary, for the summer, but man does it feel nice!! ☀️
CONFIRMED: Monette Manor a nursing home in Monette, Arkansas took a direct hit by a very large tornado & collapsed with patients inside. Docs/RNs are pleading for help.
A friend just texted to remind me today marks two years of being Chief! How is that possible?!
I am so incredibly grateful for this opportunity and especially my kick butt team. There’s so much that I still want to do!
Thank you for everything- here’s to another year ahead! 💙8️⃣
Finished!!
My goal by today was the full, but I am proud of the half. Last year I could barely muster a mile. While this has been a year of great highs, it has also contained my deepest lows.
Success is not one-size-fits all. Life can be beautiful around any bend. ☀️
Happy 70th Birthday to the one, the only, the Chief, the King—- Mr.
@bsteffen
!!!
What an incredible human being, mentor, and friend. Help me wish him the happiest of days!!
Snow is starting to accumulate in Ironwood, Michigan!
The first Winter Storm Warning of the season for our state has been issued for portions of the Upper Peninsula where as much as 18" of snow may fall by Tuesday morning! 😲
You all know
@ginger_zee
is incredible on-air. But she is even MORE incredible behind the scenes. Just this month she gifted me and my coworkers a ton of her clothes as a way to reduce, re-use, and recycle!
Also huge thanks to
@ericdush
for taking these stellar Kalamazoo shots!
If you’re one of my followers from outside of Michigan and every time I take a picture of the sunshine and winter you’re “like what’s the big deal? It’s the sun.” Just be happy for us, OK? 😂
GORGEOUS display of gravity waves as rain is forced into a stable environment triggering an oscillation. You can see the lines preceding the rain- this is evidence of the undulation!
WHOA!
I don't think I've ever seen this before! You can see the lightning flashes from incoming storms reflecting off the buildings in downtown Grand Rapids!
Incredible video slowed down of the intense straight line winds that rolled into downtown Grand Rapids last night. Huge shout out to
@WxBrenn
for this (and for slowing it down).
Note the power flashes. Velocity data coming in at 70-80mph just above ground level.
@NWSGrandRapids
Unforgettable.
Today is the 25th anniversary of the 1998 derecho— the worst thunderstorm to roll through Michigan on record.
It also goes down as one of the most powerful storm complexes to have ever formed in the nation.
Who else in West Michigan saw this tonight?
This sweet Shadow Ray occurs when there is a storm so far in the distance it casts a shadow clear across the sky.
The storms that caused this shadow were in northwest Wisconsin!
Look at this absolute beast of a storm!
This was the view of the Severe Thunderstorm moving onshore in South Haven, Michigan tonight.
Thousands are without power. Credit to Radiant Landscapes Photography for this.