While we’ve been knocked out of commission and also trying to get caught up with life, the weather has gone on unabated. While most of the country has been bouncing back from a grueling winter, our first stop takes us to Nebraska and South Dakota, which are undergoing unprecedented flooding, thanks primarily to snow melt, which has led to dam breaches, particularly on the Missouri, Elkhorn and Niobara Rivers.
These floods pale in comparison, somehow, and amazingly, to the catastrophic landfall of a cyclone near Beira, Mozambique. Cyclone Idai, all told will end up killing thousands in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. Part of the problem, as is often the case with disasters in the third world is a failure of infrastructure, but another is that Mozambique has a natural barrier – Madagascar – that usually saves the country, and the region was less experienced with such catastrophes.
After all that, it’s tough to move to a different, more positive tale, but here it is” We were able to maintain our records, even if we weren’t able to keep our site up and running. We can say for sure that Accuweather had the top month back in February, which seems wild, since A) I can’t believe we are still thinking about February and B) they did it without much success on winning individual forecasts. Consistency! Congrats to Accuweather
| Month wins | |
| Weatherbug | 2.58 |
| WeatherNation | 1.58 |
| Victoria-Weather | 1 |
| Forecast.io | 1 |
| Accuweather | 0.33 |
| The Weather Channel | 0.25 |
| National Weather Service | 0.25 |
| Outlet | Month wins | year wins |
| Weatherbug | 2.58 | 3.58 |
| Victoria-Weather | 1 | 3 |
| Forecast.io | 1 | 3 |
| National Weather Service | 0.25 | 2.25 |
| WeatherNation | 1.58 | 1.58 |
| Accuweather | 0.33 | 1.33 |
| The Weather Channel | 0.25 | 1.25 |
