Good morning, folks! Things are relatively quiet now across the country, but that may come to a change by next week as the synoptic-scale patter gets a bit more exiting. General Synoptic Picture Analyzing the…
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Temperate conditions for now, but active weather on the horizon for next week: CONUS Weather Forecast – 6/28/22
A relatively zonal pattern across the CONUS will lead to more or less seasonal weather, with no huge swings or variations in the next few days. Looking at the short term 500 mb map, most…
Central Gulf Coast is electric – a breakdown of lightning density for Southern MS/AL/LA
Its not really news that this area gets pegged with a whole mess of thunderstorms. It doesn’t matter the time of year, either. January? Yup. July? Totally. October? You bet. March? Definitely. So, it is…
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Wx Info: South Mississippi has been hot… but how hot is hot?
With a big dome of high pressure over the top of the area, the main weather story has been the heat. Afternoon highs have been in the 90s since June 4th. So we are on…
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Hot temperatures and clear skies conditions continue in the Southeast: SE MS / SW AL Weather Forecast – 6/15/22
Hello everybody, they’re going to be clear skies in the morning with partly cloudy in the afternoon for today. The high-pressure system will still stay near southeast part of United States will bring mid 70s…
Wx Info: Connecting tornadoes directly to Climate Change is misleading
Climate Change is happening. Humans are not helping. Our activities are making it worse. There is no reasonable way to deny that when faced with the overwhelming evidence. I always laugh and say ‘no one…
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2022 La Nina Spring / Summer – what it is and what it means for you
A La Nina Advisory is still in effect, issued by the Climate Prediction Center. This is an indication that La Nina conditions have been observed and are forecast to continue. Recall that a La Nina,…
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Wx Info: Using basic Physics, some Chemistry and a little math to show how Human-driven Climate Change is happening
This is why I love questions. Because the more we learn, the more we learn what we don’t know. There is a saying that floats around the Scientific Community, “The more our circumference of knowledge…
Gulf Coast Winter Outlook 2021-2022: Pt. 3 – Month-by-Month breakdown
If this is the first part of this three-part series that you are seeing and you want to catch up, you can check out the previous two posts on the Winter Outlook by following these…
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2021-2022 Gulf Coast Winter Outlook – Pt. 2
After four-consecutive “wins” at seasonal forecasting, two years ago I gave myself a C-. And last year’s Outlook was, in a word, not great. It felt like I missed nearly every place I tried to…
