In Tuesday’s YourWeatherBlog, I wrote that a significant severe weather threat is beginning to take shape for the southern and central Plains this coming weekend and early next week. With this update, I’m confirming that the severe weather is still on track and still on target. Every weather event comes more into focus as the [...]
Now once again, severe weather indicators are pointing to a major severe weather outbreak early next week.
Although the cold front in the central U.S. will bring snow to the western Great Lakes today and though we still have more than two weeks of winter (vernal equinox: March 20), we’re dealing with a major springtime — rather than wintertime — storm system. Actually, you won’t find the definition “Springtime Storm System” in [...]
Having just returned from my annual motorcycle trip to the Big Bend region of Texas (Lajitas, Terlingua, Big Bend National Park and Ft. Davis), I couldn’t help but notice the conditions brought on by the exceptional drought that has been plaguing this area for so many seasons.
ImpactWeather Product Manager and Meteorologist Bob Weinzapfel guest-posts today about activity at last week’s Offshore Symposium in Houston hosted by the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME). The study described and similar studies have an incalculable, positive impact on preserving lives and assets relevant to severe weather. On Thursday, February 2nd, Dr. Momen [...]
As this week’s U.S. severe weather event made its way through Houston yesterday, ImpactWeather TropicsWatch Manager Chris Hebert took a few moments every ¼-hour or so to check one of the local bayou cams – the “Harris Gully Box Culvert” cam – and to trap the occasional image. Here’s a 20-second compilation that spans a [...]
Be advised that this is a classic heavy snow pattern for those coastal areas along the Pacific Northwest where the combination of shallow Arctic Air interacts with Pacific moisture to produce heavy wintry weather.
ImpactWeather updates its 30-day outlooks by the 15th of each month. As that was yesterday, YourWeatherBlog asked ImpactWeather’s long-range meteorologist Fred Schmude for his thoughts. The latest long-range data favors a continued elevated (more northerly) flow pattern as we move into February. Additionally, the faster flow pattern will not be on the same scale as [...]
It’s a clash of air masses on the gridiron of the U.S. today as a major snowstorm impacts the Rockies and severe weather threatens the Deep South. A quick-moving storm system will continue to bring snowfall to the central and southern Rocky Mountain states today and tomorrow. Snowfall will come to an end from north [...]
Earlier this year we went on record predicting the number of named storms, including the total number of hurricanes and major hurricanes (Category 3 and above), we expected to develop during the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Our prediction here at ImpactWeather called for 14 named storms, including 8 hurricanes and 4 major hurricanes. So how [...]