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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 released the spring outlook for the United States and in the limbo of a not-quite-an-El-Nino-or-La-Nina year it is as “keeping with the same pace” as ever. The forecast calls for above average temperatures to…
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…
Today across the southern Texas panhandle and across parts of west Texas there will be elevated to critical fire weather dangers. Please exercise extreme caution in these areas today. Elevated to critical fire weather dangers…
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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 –…
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…
Interesting read from Climate Central on the costs of global climate change. Originally it was thought that each ton of carbon into the atmosphere cost the world 37 bucks. Apparently, that isn’t quite high enough.…
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Mother Nature doesn’t often get compared to boxing, but this weekend the southern plains will be facing a one-two punch of systems giving the area decent chances for rain. Scenario As one area of low…
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A developing El Nino could mean more rain for the southern plains and help for the current drought Amarillo, TX – According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – or NOAA – El Nino…
