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…

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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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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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