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Garrett's Blog: Winter Weather Update

Winter weather will make a return to Arkansas and Oklahoma on Monday with a mixed variety of precipitation types expected. While the system isn't particularly strong in terms of severe ice or heavy snow, this will likely be the most notable winter system so far this mild winter season with travel impacted and schools and...

Garrett's Blog: Tornado Questions

I've received several emails lately about anything from tornadoes to earthquakes to tsunami waves. Which usually means one thing: Most schools are doing their weather units! Thought I would share one of them from Kelsie at Fayetteville High School....

National Weather Service to offer storm spotter classes

Top 5 Weather Stories Of 2011: Snow Storm One of the biggest weather stories of 2011 was the brutal winter and snow storm. Northwest Arkansas saw up to 25" of snow in some locations in early... Read more...	Garrett's Blog: Flashback - Ice Storm 2009 We've seen some bad winter storms in our area but I've never seen anything like the ice storm in 2009. Nearly 2" of ice accumulated in Northwest... Read more...
Top 5 Weather Stories Of 2011: Tornadoes The year of 2011 will go down in the history books as one of the worst for tornadoes. Nationally, we saw the 3rd worst number of tornado fatalities in... Read more...	Heat Wave Breaks 1934 Heat Record Record heat continues across all of Northwest Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma. In Fort Smith, today marks the 17th consecutive day of temperatures at or... Read more...
GARRETT'S BLOG: April 2011 Tornado Outbreak Assessment The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration just completed a Service Assesment for the historic tornado outbreak that occurred in April 2011. Read more...	Garrett's Blog: Flashback 2001 - First Weather Forecast Today is my 10th anniversary at 5NEWS! All this month on my blog I'll be posting some archive video clips from the last 10 years. Here's my first ever... Read more...
Garrett's Blog: Winter Weather Wackiness - Part 3, Cold Air Depth All this week, I’ve been answering questions to common winter weather situations that arise in our area. Today we’ll look at how cold... Read more...	Garrett's Blog: Flashback 2008 - Fort Smith Hail Storm Since we have two fully functional newsrooms and studios; this year (2011) I was covering a funnel cloud that moved over Fort Smith from our... Read more...
Garrett's Blog: Winter Weather Wackiness - Part 2, Snow Totals For the next few days, I’m taking a look at winter weather in our area and talking about some of the more complicated scenarios and questions... Read more...	Heat Ridge: Large and In Charge Read more...
Garrett's Blog: Winter Weather Wackiness: Part 1 Tis' the season for winter weather! I thought I'd take a few minutes to talk about winter forecasting from a meteorologist's perspective. I often feel... Read more...	Garrett's Blog: Flashback: "2003 Prank On Garrett" Read more...
Fronts & Freezes... Snow & Seasons. Late October and early November is a time of transition for all of our area. It's when you'll see the big effects of the changing season in a... Read more...	Garrett's Blog: Flashback 2002 Read more...
GARRETT'S BLOG: Joplin Tornado Assessment The National Weather Service completed their assessment of the Joplin Tornado. It's a .pdf file that's very interesting. What I find most intriguing... Read more...	GARRETT'S BLOG: 4th of July Forecast Sunset: 8:36pm ... Complete Dark: 9:06pm Read more...
Garrett's Blog: Flyover Earth With ISS Great video time lapse of the International Space Station flying over Earth from Alaska to Antarctica. From the sky you can see Los Angeles, Las... Read more...	Garrett's Blog: Crazy Clouds They look like cotton balls hanging underneath the anvil of a thundercloud. When strong thunderstorms develop the thundercloud is referred to as a... Read more...
Changing Seasons The start of September and the Labor Day holiday brought the first real taste of Fall we've seen in months! Forecast low temperatures this week are... Read more...	Expect Storms Soon A break in the hot and humid summer streak will begin on Tuesday with a strong upper level system pressing into the area. Read more...
Tropical Storm "Irene" Tropical storm season continues to heat up in the Gulf of Mexico & Atlantic Ocean. Most long range computer models have been hinting at tropical... Read more...	Garrett's Blog: Small Wave, Big Wave Thought the weekend forecast was supposed to be nice & sunny? Well, it is... sort of. Read more...
GARRETT'S BLOG: Did a Gustnado bring down Indiana State Fair stage? In the coming months, many people will review the policies and procedures that led up to the stage at the Indiana State Fair collapsing. Instead of... Read more...	Warm Front Causes Complexes The weather pattern for the last several days has featured a warm front over our area and several thunderstorm complexes which move from west to... Read more...
2011 Rainfall Update This year has been incredible. There's not much we haven't seen: tornadoes in January, record 2ft snow storm with record all-time lows, record flash... Read more...	5NEWS Chief Meteorologist & Wife Welcome New Baby Boy! 5NEWS wants to congratulate Chief Meteorologist Garrett Lewis and his wife Ashley on their first baby, Graham! Read more...
Fort Smith Breaks All Time Heat Record Fort Smith breaks all-time heat record, currently: 115 degrees. The hottest temperature since record keeping started in late 1800s. Read more...	Tornado Strikes Massachusetts As the jet stream migrates north... so do the tornadoes. This twister was captured by WGGB's tower cam. The NWS will be surveying the damage to rate... Read more...
Fayetteville Ties All-Time Heat Record Fayetteville temperatures reached 110 degrees Wednesday evening. This temperature is tied for the all-time high temperature of 110 that was set... Read more...	Storm Shelter Companies A lot of you have been asking about storm shelters. After several comments on Facebook from those of you who had one installed... I decided to... Read more...
Temperature Ties All-Time Heat Record in Fort Smith The temperature in the Fort Smith reached 113 Tuesday afternoon, which is the all-time highest temperature recorded since record keeping began in... Read more...	Tornado Tracks Here's a look at all 4 of the tornado tracks from last week's outbreak of severe weather. The tracks were surveyed by the National Weather Service... Read more...
Heat Wave Continues The heat wave continues. I thought I would update you on some of the hot stats from this summer. (Current as of Friday July 29th) Read more...	Joplin Debris Captured on Camera Debris from Joplin Tornado captured on security camera. The tornado is the deadliest single tornado since the implementation of Doppler Radar and... Read more...
Tropical Storm "Don" Develops The first Tropical Storm with the potential to impact the weather in Arkansas developed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday afternoon. Read more...	Melon Size Hail from May 24th? The supercell thunderstorms that hit central Oklahoma generated giant hail. The Storm Prediction Center Severe Reports shows recorded 6" diameter hail... Read more...
Garrett's Blog: Flashback - Dr Phil Weight Loss 2003 Some of you long time 5NEWS viewers may remember this from the year 2003. I've been a pretty big guy most of my life and managing my weight has always... Read more...	5NEWS Aerial Tour of Tornado Damage Garrett Lewis and Joe Pennington took helicopter of tornado damage in Franklin and Johnson Counties on May 25, the day after a deadly storm ripped... Read more...
A Look At 2011 Rainfall Totals As dry as it's been lately you'd think we were significantly behind on rainfall totals. Believe it or not, we're actually above normal for rainfall... Read more...	Aerial View Of Tornado Damage We took an aerial tour of the tornado damage from the two different cells that affected parts of our area. The first tornado appears to have touched... Read more...

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