We're suffering from a near-fatal case of boring August weather, and it's just awful.

This water vapor imagery from GOES East shows moisture (and a lack thereof) over the central and eastern Atlantic. Any disturbance that manages to get its act together over the next couple of days has to deal with the slug of dry air to the west. The summer doldrums continue...

For those of us who live along the East Coast, this has been a pretty nice summer. With constant shots of cool air and low humidity filtering in from the north (thanks, Canucks!), temperatures are staying right around normal. The West, on the other hand, is baking. How does this summer compare to summers past?

The New Zealand capital's famed Zephyrometer, a weathery sculpture that stands a little over 100 feet tall, met its demise after a thunderstorm struck Wellington on Thursday and a bolt of lightning destroyed the sculpture in a fireball, hurling its fiery remains onto the street below.

Greetings! I'm taking a mental health day today, so The Vane will be quiet until late tonight or tomorrow. The tropical Atlantic is quiet, there's only a small patch of severe weather over Idaho and Montana, and parts of the mountain west are on watch for flash flooding. Typical August day. Enjoy the lower humidity.

If you thought yesterday's heavy rain was bad, wait until you see this: Islip, New York recorded more than 13 inches of rain this morning, 11 inches of which fell in just three hours. That breaks the all-time New York State record for the most rain recorded in a 24-hour period.

You're driving down the road on a warm summer afternoon. You pass your local bank and the display says it's 97°F. "Good grief," you think, "I didn't realize it was that hot." Well, it's probably not that hot. The thermometers they use at businesses with electronic displays are useless junk.

Areas south of Baltimore, Maryland got slammed with record-breaking rainfall this afternoon, with some areas just south of the city seeing a foot of rain in just one day. What's even more amazing is that while one town saw twelve inches of rain, areas just a few miles away got just one inch.

A hospital in Kearney, Nebraska released terrifying security camera footage of a flash flood bursting through the doors of the hospital's cafeteria, gushing into the room with the fury you'd expect to see in a Hollywood movie.

Major flooding is ongoing near Baltimore this afternoon after areas south of town have seen more than seven inches of rain in a short period of time, and amounts could approach ten inches before the storms stop. A similar situation unfolded in Detroit last night.

A dust devil formed in Brooklyn's McCarren Park this past weekend, and people at the park reacted the exact same way that people in Alabama react to snow: they went crazy.

Forecasters did a great job predicting the track of Hurricane Iselle as it headed towards Hawaii last week. Even almost a week out when the storm was a thousand miles from the Big Island, meteorologists had the hurricane's track pegged to within 30 miles of where it made landfall.

The New York Post wrote an article the other day exclaiming that this summer is one of the mildest summers on record in New York City. Sure it is! If we extend the meaning of "on the record" to include that time when the earth was covered in lava.

BEHOLD THE SECOND COMING OF SUPERMOON. BOW TO ITS EMINENCE, FOR WE HAVE NEVER SEEN THE MOON THIS BIG.

Hey, remember that forecast for a complete washout in the North Carolina Piedmont this weekend, with up to 7 inches of rain falling in some spots? Both the forecasters and the models were wrong. Really wrong. It rained everywhere except for in the Piedmont. Oops!

After years of scouring the internet and the skies in search of proof, and after years of denying their existence, this Gawker shill is finally ready to come clean and produce all of the evidence that proves, once and for all, that chemtrails exist.

Hurricane Iselle fell apart in a spectacular manner after making landfall on the Big Island last night weakening from a hurricane last night to a 50 MPH tropical storm this afternoon. The storm is now south of Oahu and falling apart quickly.

One of the biggest sticking points when it comes to weather forecasts is the public's confusion over the terms "hurricane," "typhoon," and "cyclone." Since they're three different names, people think they're three different kinds of storm. Here's a quick explainer on what's in a name.

Hurricane Iselle is closing in on the Big Island this morning as the 80 MPH hurricane rapidly closes in on Hawaii. The entire state, home to nearly one-and-a-half million people, will see life-threatening weather conditions as the hurricane moves through over the next 24 to 36 hours.

A concert held by Beyoncé and her back-up singer in San Francsico last night seemed extra loud to some folks in the Bay Area thanks to a common weather phenomenon we'll just assume she controls. This same atmospheric quirk is usually responsible for most widely-heard and often mysterious booms and roars...and superstars, apparently.