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…
Tag: Tropical Weather
Yes there may be another system near the Gulf during the next week
But there is no real reason to worry yet. Or perhaps even at all. There are a handful of things hat need to happen before that thing becomes ‘a thing’ for anyone to worry about.…
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8/30/21 6AM Tropical Storm Ida update – rain, wind, tornado threat continues for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama
Tropical Storm Ida continues to drift north across the counties of Mississippi. Heavy rain, flash flood warnings and power outages will continue for the next few hours before Ida finally moves off to the north.…
8/29/21 230PM Hurricane Ida update: County-by-county forecast as well as power outage potentials and durations
Before I get started, Dr. Kim Wood a satellite data guru, fantastic meteorologist, and all around great human up at Mississippi State – and someone who is the pride of Oregon State University – put…
8/29/21 1PM Hurricane Ida update: Landfall as Category 4 Hurricane, now starts to turn north
Hurricane Ida is slowly moving NW across inland SE Louisiana now. It made landfall shortly before noon today near Port Fourchon. It will now start to turn north and eventually northeast. As it moves ashore…
8/29/21 11AM Hurricane Ida video update
Here is the live video I ran through over on youtube.
8/29/21 8AM Hurricane Ida update: A county-by-county breakdown of potentials for sections of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama
A couple changes: I bumped up the peak wind gust across the board by 5mph. With how big this stom is now, the rainbands may not support higher sustained wind across the board (though there…
8/28/21 7PM Hurricane Ida update: a county-by-county breakdown for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
Looking at the latest data, the NHC still hasn’t nudged things too far back to the east yet. Even though, Hurricane Ida continues to trek more northerly that true northwesterly. This is still slated to…
8/28/21 2PM Hurricane Ida update – perhaps a wiggle to the east
hurricane Ida is now a Category 2 Hurricane as it continues to drift northwest around 15mph – currently at 16mph. This is slightly faster (by 1-2mph) than we thought yesterday. The storm is likely just…
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Wx Info: Tropical tornadoes vs. other tornadoes
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…
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