Archive for February, 2013
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If you’ve hung around chasers, at all. ever. You’ve heard talk about Skew-Ts and hodographs. We’ll get into hodographs another time. but this is the first of a 7 part series on Skew-T diagrams. So, what is a Skew-T? The Skew-T/Log-P (we just use skew-t, but I think log-p sounds cooler, oh well) has been [...]
The NWS has some great resources, but one of my favorite “it just works” ones is the NWS Public Alerts feed. You can subscribe by state, county and zone using your favorite RSS reader and have your favorite weather information right in your daily news feeds. I make HEAVY use of RSS (around 700 articles [...]
I woke up this morning to this delightful notification from the NWS … Another winter storm taking aim on the central U.S. Early next week… This mornings weather data continues to indicate that a major storm is a very real possibility for parts of Missouri and Illinois late Monday and into Tuesday. Although there is [...]
As of July 18th 2012, NWS has been given the capability to send out mass warnings to cell phones for imminent threat conditions like Tsunamis, tornadoes, blizzards, etc based on your current location. Imagine the scenario, you are at a concert somewhere in KS. The sky has gotten dark and you have heard that a [...]
The winter storm has given us a great chance to learn more about the Dual Pol HCA product . While the storm started 3 hours before I thought it would (I hate winter forecasting) it’s dropping a lot of different types of precipitation which is showing up nicely on the HCA. This picture shows a [...]