Good afternoon, everyone! I just wanted to offer an update guys… Currently, I’m knee-deep in a bunch of data from the National Weather Service in Amarillo, Texas. I was able to strike a deal (I…
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Oh, April…
It wouldn’t be April without a chance for snow after a few days in the 80s and 90s, would it? Also, there is a chance for severe weather across eastern Oklahoma and northeast Texas. Also…
SPC updates today’s tornado threat
The Storm Prediction Center has “upped” the threat for tornadoes across Kentucky, Ohio and a sliver of West Virginia this afternoon.
Severe weather likely, don’t disregard warnings
As meteorologists look at today’s setup it is looking promising that severe weather will develop. The main bulk of the severe action will be in parts of Missouri, Arkansas, western Tennessee and Kentucky and northern…
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“Wind Machine” should be the name of every band in Amarillo
If you enjoy wind, you’ll thoroughly enjoy this week in Amarillo. As a few systems glide by the winds will certainly be blowing. In fact, here is a breakdown of the week Day Wind (mph)…
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Late season Northeast snow possible
I’m looking at all the forecast models and some are pointing at the chance for a late – very late – season Nor’easter that may bring some snow to extreme eastern parts of New England.…
Climate Central warns against sleeping on a quiet tornado season
In a great read from Climate Central, Brian Kahn talks about how the moderately inactive 2013 tornado season and the – what seems to be – quiet start to the 2014 season are no reason…
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NOAA releases February global anaylsis
NOAA released its global analysis for February 2014 this morning. Interesting to see it in graphical form (below). The most interesting coincidence is that the sea ice extent at the north and south pole are…
Southern plains rain totals from 3/14 – 3/16
Just for fun, I wanted to take a look at how we did for rainfall estimates across the southern plains yesterday… The forecast looked like this: Abilene – 50% || .50″ – .75″ Amarillo –…
Current southern plains forecast
So far, so good. It looks like the forecast is verifying for the southern plains. While most of the severe weather is staying in east Texas, a solid soaking rain with strong-to-severe storms are rolling…
