Hey guys! It’s your favorite weather intern Emily here bringing a new addition to your daily weather indulgence. As if you hadn’t read enough from me yet, I’m now beginning to do article reviews in addition to my weekly forecasts. I will be reading through some papers with various topics that all relate to operational forecasting or radar meteorology and include… Read more →
I’ve completed my study of the last 20 or so years of tornadoes across the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. I’ve made a few interesting discoveries.
You can read about those discoveries here.
While more research needs to be completed, I’m hoping this is a good start to understanding the relationships between multiple different variables and the crazy high plains weather.
Yes, the title isn’t exactly gasp-worthy. Nor is it a ground-breaking new idea. I know. But What I found out was interesting! For those of you who frequent this site – and there aren’t many of you – you know that I’ve been rather preoccupied the last week or so digging through data from the National Weather Service office in… Read more →
Good afternoon, everyone! I just wanted to offer an update guys…
Currently, I’m knee-deep in a bunch of data from the National Weather Service in Amarillo, Texas. I was able to strike a deal (I asked) with some of the meteorologists to let me borrow (look at) some of the historical tornado data for the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles.
I’m working on comparing monthly sea surface temperatures from the Pacific, the Gulf of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, and yearly rainfall totals for the area as well as tornado reports.
The hope is that I’ll be able to get a better picture of how these different patterns change severe weather on the high plains.
So far, there hasn’t been much to get excited about, but things are starting to come together.
I’ll have the full report with notes posted soon!
