Front rolls through Thursday, then cooler: Southern MS/AL/LA Weather Forecast – 11/2/21

A big thanks for everyone for the well-wishes. As a warning I’m typing this forecast nearly blind as I can’t lean forward far enough to read the computer screen (bad eyes). So if there are…

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Gulf Coast Winter Outlook 2021-2022: Pt. 3 – Month-by-Month breakdown

If this is the first part of this three-part series that you are seeing and you want to catch up, you can check out the previous two posts on the Winter Outlook by following these…

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10/24/21 PM Update: Severe weather potential for Gulf Coast Wednesday

Looking toward Wednesday, the chance for severe weather will emerge across the Gulf Coast as a reasonably potent upper-level system swing through the region. This system is a chunk of a stronger system that is…

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Things still looking good next week: Southern MS / AL / LA Weather Forecast 10/15/21

Today is the day! The cold front arrives. While it won’t knock temperatures down forever, it will put an end to late summer heat for the better part of the next seven days. The cold…

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Yes there may be another system near the Gulf during the next week

But there is no real reason to worry yet. Or perhaps even at all. There are a handful of things hat need to happen before that thing becomes ‘a thing’ for anyone to worry about.…

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8/30/21 6AM Tropical Storm Ida update – rain, wind, tornado threat continues for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama

Tropical Storm Ida continues to drift north across the counties of Mississippi. Heavy rain, flash flood warnings and power outages will continue for the next few hours before Ida finally moves off to the north.…

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8/29/21 230PM Hurricane Ida update: County-by-county forecast as well as power outage potentials and durations

Before I get started, Dr. Kim Wood a satellite data guru, fantastic meteorologist, and all around great human up at Mississippi State – and someone who is the pride of Oregon State University – put…

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8/29/21 1PM Hurricane Ida update: Landfall as Category 4 Hurricane, now starts to turn north

Hurricane Ida is slowly moving NW across inland SE Louisiana now. It made landfall shortly before noon today near Port Fourchon. It will now start to turn north and eventually northeast. As it moves ashore…

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8/29/21 8AM Hurricane Ida update: A county-by-county breakdown of potentials for sections of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama

A couple changes: I bumped up the peak wind gust across the board by 5mph. With how big this stom is now, the rainbands may not support higher sustained wind across the board (though there…

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