Hurricane Nate gaining strength, track leaning east

The 10pm update was release by the National Hurricane Center showed “Tropical Storm Nate” with wind at 70mph. Twenty-five minutes later… It isn’t surprising though based on satellite trends, between 8pm and 10pm the area…

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Tropical Depression 16 to drift north toward Gulf, likely becoming Nate – Your Questions Answered

The 2017 Hurricane Season isn’t done yet. To quote Jay-Z it “is back before we had a chance to miss [it],” though I don’t know if any of us would “miss” hurricane season. Anyway! Newly…

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Gulf Coast Weekly Forecast Outlook (9/25/17)

Current Conditions Currently acros the sotuheast temperatures are in the 60s and 70s from eastern Texas all the way to the Florida panhandle. with mostly clear conditions across a majority of the southeast – except…

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Revisiting the 1895 Gulf Coast Blizzard with Matt Lanza

Matt Lanza, a meteorologist for an energy company in Houston, spent some time earlier this year researching the 1895 Gulf Coast Blizzard. It was a widespread winter weather outbreak across the Gulf Coast region around…

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Rick Smith helps those with Severe Weather Anxiety

Rick Smith, the Warning Coordination Meteorologist at the Norman, Oklahoma National Weather Service office is doing great things to help those that are struggling with Severe Weather Anxiety. In the clinical world, sometimes this is…

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Research shows connection between Gulf temps and severe weather

Matt Haworth, meteorologist for StormGeo, presented research connecting Gulf of Mexico sea surface temperatures to severe weather potential along the Gulf Coast. “Basically I expanded on a study done by Roger Edwards and Steven Weiss…

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What if Harvey happened to you? Maps estimate what local flooding would look like

First off, props to the Washington Post. I would really encourage everyone to take a look at this article about what the Harvey floods really mean. They do a great job at putting things into…

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Real Talk: Harvey and the Gulf Coast

I got up this morning with every intention of running errands, working in the yard pulling out the last of that Chamberbitter, and doing some quick cleaning around the house. But when I logged onto…

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Tornado Watch for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama likely extended

The Tornado Watch that expires at 1PM for parts of the southeast will likely be continued through later this evening. Strong, long-track devastating tornadoes are not likely in this watch. But brief, weaker, and fast-moving…

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