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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Tropical Storm Eta still pegged to turn, drift toward northern Gulf Coast

I think it is a funny coincidence that the one tropical system with the name that is an acronym for “estimated time of arrival” is the tropical system that is taking the most indirect path…

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11/9/20 PM Update: Tropical Storm Eta to turn, drift north toward northern Gulf Coast by weekend

It is an ugly, small, and not very angry storm. But that doesn’t mean it won’t cause problems. Just ask Florida. Tropical Storm Eta is in the Gulf trying to reorganize itself in the face…

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11/5/20 Eta update: Since we are all getting good at waiting…

Who is with me? A vote for dissipation is a vote for sanity! I’m being told, ‘that isn’t how any of this works, Nick’ Drat. Well, then, let’s get right to the update… From the…

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11/4/20 Update: Eta forecast to slither its way north into Gulf

Eta is a shell of its former self, however it is still dropping copious amounts of precipitation across Central America. Nicaragua and Honduras are still expecting another foot of water – maybe more – in…

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Hurricane Eta forecast to possibly enter Gulf by Sunday

This is one of those ‘worth watching, but don’t get concerned yet’ type of situations. Category 4 Hurricane Eta made landfall across the coast of Nicaragua today bringing heavy rain, wind gusts up to 185mph,…

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