From start to finish… a complete look at a supercell’s life-cycle. Cool stuff!
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Colder Amarillo weather turns stormy – perhaps severe
Wow, it’s cold this morning! After a few flurries and some sticking snow last night across the northern tier of the Texas panhandle and across the Oklahoma panhandle – clear skies let all of the…
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Tornado Video of the Day: “Great Bend Tornado (Ash Valley) Footage”
Footage from 1974!
Wx Info: What is a “Cap” of warm air?
During a few of the forecast write-ups I’ve touched on the “cap of warm air aloft” as something that hinders thunderstorm development. But what is it? How did it get there? How does it stop…
Tornado Video of the Day: “F5 tornado narrowly misses Texas prison”
A very large tornado that went through Pampa, Texas in 1995.
Tornado Video of the Day: “West Liberty KY Tornado March 2, 2012”
Good job by Kevin Adkins shooting this storm…
High plains precip estimates
As a early spring system rolls through the high plains it going to feel more like winter than spring. Most recently, the latest computer weather models have come into better agreement with the track of…
Tornado Video of the Day: “Dust Devil near Salem, Oregon on 2010-08-05”
This is a pretty cool video that also gives me a chance to explain these very cool phenomena. Dust Devil: These form when instability hot air rises quickly through a small pocket of cool air…
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Climate change shifting Amarillo weather: Part I (Background)
A lot of times “Global Warming” is a polarizing topic. No pun intended. A lot people say that global warming can’t be real because there have been multiple snow storms, blizzards and winter weather events…
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