The ridge, or “heat dome”, that is currently plaguing the East Coast with record high temperatures is having a different effect for now in southern Mississippi. It is likely that, in any given location this…
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06/10/25 – Squall Line tries to get to New Orleans before dissipating; downbursts possible
Thanks to the trough and cold front to our north, another day of thunderstorms is possible. Models agree that a squall line (or to use a fancy meteorological term, a mesoscale convective system, or MCS…
Wx Info: A sky with two different types of clouds at the same time
So, a pretty cool thing happened to me today when I was walking outside to get the mail. I looked up and snapped this picture… The above picture features some summertime cumulus clouds bubbling up…
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WX Info: Using a Skew-T for FROPA
A Skew-T is a handy tool for forecasters. It can tell you a lot about what is happening in the atmosphere. It gives temperature, dewpoint and wind readings throughout the atmosphere – from top to…
WX Info: The Great Burp of 2015
If you caught my weathercast earlier this week, you may have heard me taking about the ‘burp’ or pocket of warm air that was going to be headed this way. Well today, that burp is…
Gulf Coast faces storms, then possibility of wintry weather
Due to the lack of cooling through the column and a very high (about 15,000 feet) dendritic growth zone, snow still doesn’t look likely across the Gulf Coast. But the latest model data is coming…
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Wx Info: Reading a Skew-T to determine the forecast
A Skew-T is a graphical representation of the atmosphere using temperature, dewpoint and wind. And then using some math, offers a whole host of other meaningful weather information. And it might looks scary the first…
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