2020 going out with a bang, so to speak. Would you expect any less? Severe weather remains a possibility for later today across east Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. It still looks…
Category: Forecasting
12/30 update: Gulf Coast faces severe risk NYE
Not much has changed regarding the potential for severe weather on New Year’s Eve. Instead, we are starting to get a better idea about how the severe weather threat will shake out as we are…
New data gives more insight to NYE severe risk for Gulf Coast
As a professor, this is the type of weather event that I would probably use on a test. Because at first glance, and on paper, it looks like a guarantee for some severe weather. But…
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It’ll be a New Year’s Thunderstormin’ Eve for northern Gulf Coast
Now that we are getting to be about 72-96 hours out, data is starting to come into better agreement about the timeline and threats for the severe weather threat on New Year’s Eve for the…
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Year End severe weather threat for Gulf Coast may last two days
This may be a multi-day event for some places. That means one round of storms one day, and then perhaps another round of storms in the same spo the next day.
12/23/20 Quick Update: Overnight severe threat for South Mississippi
There is a bit too much info to pack into a facebook post, and my latest tweet leaves some room for elaboration… so I figured a blog update would have to suffice. There is still…
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Low-end severe threat for Gulf Coast Dec 23rd/24th
The first Day 1 SPC outlook is available for the Wednesday night / Thursday morning severe weahter threat. And the SPC bumped up the risk a level. Model data show that there may be a…
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Mr. Tornado – an American Experience film
PBS presented a fantastic documentary on Tetsuya Fujita – the man behind the Fujita scale. For those who are curious, “Ted” Fujita moved to the United States from Japan. And used his background in engineering…
White Christmas for South Mississippi?
A “White Christmas” is designated by the National Weather Service as a Christmas Day with 1″ of snow on the ground at any time during the day. So, I received a text from good friend,…
Decent shot of cold potentially settles South to begin December
Remember how I said, “around Thanksgiving” was the likely going to be our first shot of real cold air? I think the first time I said that was back around Election day. I made a…
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