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I didn’t plan on writing this piece today, but back-to-back really cool things happened in the atmosphere recently. Light pillars in Alaska and Halos in Mississippi. So what causes all of these optical illusions? Our…
Read more of Wx Info: Atmospheric optics – Rainbows, sun dogs, sun pillars, light pillars, and halos
I’ve been working on some projects recently around my home office, trying to develop some new ways to share weather information with you, my awesome readers. Whether it is just a daily weather forecast or…
Need a forecast for the next few days across southeastern Mississippi, southern Alabama or the western Florida panhandle? These students have you covered. I’ve got to say, I wasn’t this skilled coming out of college,…
Read more of Today’s forecast: Quality work from AtmosCenter students
A handful of folks have asked what I do now. Aasking why I left TV and if I’m still even doing anything with the weather. There are many ways to explain what it is that…
A tropical tornado is a special kind of tornado that is formed mostly from wind shear and less through instability. Because of that, they tend to be weaker and shorter-lived than the tornadoes that form…
Read more of Wx Info: Tropical tornadoes vs. other tornadoes
A few days before the 15 year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall, I asked people who lived through Hurricane Katrina to give their best piece of advice to their past self – or others –…
Read more of A message to everyone from those who survived Katrina
So, a pretty cool thing happened to me today when I was walking outside to get the mail. I looked up and snapped this picture… The above picture features some summertime cumulus clouds bubbling up…
Read more of Wx Info: A sky with two different types of clouds at the same time
No. Thankfully. Okay, not totally “No” but it doesn’t really work like a lot of us would commonly think. Tropical Cyclones, or tropical systems ss I usually call them, don’t often merge to become one…
Read more of Wx Info: Can two tropical cyclones combine and merge into one Super Hurricane?
During a landfalling tropical system – Tropical Depression, Tropical Storm, or Hurricane – it is important to know which quadrant of the storm you are going to be impacted by.
It is a great question. And one you’re smart to ask! As a meteorologist who is all about public education, it makes me feel good to know that you are asking the right question. You…
Read more of The PTC has wind greater than 39mph, why isn’t it a Tropical Storm?
