I can hear some of you now: “Oh boy. Here Nick goes again!” Guilty as charged! I went down a bit of a rabbit hole this morning trying to shake out some of the Christmas…
Category: Weather History
Second research project: how weather models can improve upslope snowfall forecasting
Hello there; thanks for taking the time to read this research. This is my second piece of research for the summer, and I have decided to switch things up from my last research paper. This…
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A quick note on the 8/24/22 Hattiesburg tornado
Yes, there was a tornado. And, in this case, the video probably really helped the National weather Service identify it. The NWS in Jackson has rated this an EF-0 tornado that was on the ground…
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Wx Info: Your weather isn’t more special than somewhere else
The problem with facts is that they can frequently be boring. Unless it is a fun piece of trivia or an area of interest, a fact can be unintriguing. That makes sense. We live in…
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NWS continues severe weather surveys: Two tornadoes were moving through Covington County simultaneously
The National Weather Service in Jackson, Mississippi finished their severe weather surveys for parts of southern Mississippi and have released stats on the tornadoes that affected the area. There were mutliple storms reports in the…
Building back better: Recovering from the 2017 EF-3 Tornado
Not all bad things stay bad. “Along with the other tornado in 2013, this was some of the worst damage I’ve ever seen.,” Ryan Moore, a reporter at the time for WDAM, said of the…
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Five years later: The 2017 Hattiesburg/Petal Tornado
I knew people were going to die. Messaging was intense and started earlier than normal because I knew it was going to be a bad day. A very bad day. But this isn’t just about…
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Wx Info: Answering if the lack of severe weather is ‘luck’ or a pattern shift
I received a great question the other day. Corey checked in asking if the overall pattern had changed during the last few years since it felt like there hadn’t been as much severe weather. And…
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NWS Meteorologist recaps warning decision process on tornado near Sanford, MS
On March 30th, 2021, there was a unique atmospheric setup across parts of south Mississippi. This type of severe weather event doesn’t come along often, but when it does, it makes a very tricky situation…
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Wednesday’s storms in South Mississippi were a once-in-a-lifetime event
There are plenty of once-in-a-lifetime weather events for people living in south Mississippi. Usually it is things like tornadoes and hurricanes, though. In recent years, the December 8th, 2017 snowfall could be put on the…
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