Hello everyone! Thanks for taking the time to read my first research post. If you follow Nick on Facebook, you may have seen my post about climate change in our forecast area. I explained how…
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5/27/25 Tropical Outlook – Trouble in the East Pacific
Hurricane Season? Already? Right now, we are in the middle of the transition period into tropical season. Did you know that hurricane season in the East Pacific starts 16 days earlier than in the Atlantic?…
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Wx Info: Machine learning helps resolve the complexity of NAO pattern
In the quest to deepen our understanding of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)—a climatic phenomenon that significantly influences weather patterns across Europe and North America—scientists have turned to innovative analytical methods. A recent study leverages…
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More Storms in the Upper Midwest, Hotter for the Southern US: CONUS Weather Forecast- 7/22/22
Looking at the next 5 days, I have the average 500 mb height anomaly map over the whole US. This does a good job of painting broad specifics. Looking very broadly, we can see a…
Wx Info: Using basic Physics, some Chemistry and a little math to show how Human-driven Climate Change is happening
This is why I love questions. Because the more we learn, the more we learn what we don’t know. There is a saying that floats around the Scientific Community, “The more our circumference of knowledge…
La Nina Advisory issued for Winter 2021-2022
On the heels of my Part 1 of the Winter 2021-2022 Winter Outlook where I posted about the La Nina Watch that was in effect, today NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center has up’d the anti and…
Mississippi has wettest summer on record
I don’t think you need a weatherman to tell you that it has been wet in Mississippi this summer. In fact, the above-normal precip goes almost all the way back to last fall. But, according…
From Climate Change to COVID-19: Science takes time, trust the process
A lot of people, when they have an idea about how something works, say, “I have a theory….” But they don’t. People who say, “I have a theory…” often just have a hypothesis. Theories take…
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2020-2021 Gulf Coast Winter Outlook
After four-consecutive “wins” at seasonal forecasting, last year’s Outlook was, in a word, not great. It felt like I missed nearly every place I tried to get right. Okay, it wasn’t that bad. I gave…
The 2020 La Nina and the Pine Belt
A La Nina Advisory has been issued by the Climate Prediction Center. This is an indication that La Nina conditions have been observed and are forecast to continue. Recall that a La Nina, in short,…
