That’s right, friends. While I will spend some time talking about La Niña and the hurricane Season, I also posted a “deep tease” about the upcoming winter. Two reasons. The first, I think most of us are tired of 2020 anyway. The second, it will likely have more of a direct impact on your life this winter than this Hurricane… Read more →
The National Hurricane Center continues to monitor Tropical Storm Cristobal as it moves north toward the Louisiana coastline. The forecast landfall will occur Sunday afternoon or evening. It is predicted to make landfall as a Tropical Storm, and not as a Hurricane. The good news is that the storm continues to eat up the dry air that has wrapped around… Read more →
Dry air to the rescue! Cristobal continues to move north across the Gulf of Mexico but is also interacting with a lot of dry air and a little bit of shear. That is limiting its growth, organization and intensity. All good news. While it may not look like the typical tropical system, it will still produce very heavy rain, very… Read more →
Tuesday I wrote about trying out the Karrie Meter on the storms for Wednesday. Turned out alright. A reminder, the Karrie Meter looked like this: And here is a look at the number of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings: Not perfect for the region, but did well for the Pine Belt in Mississippi (which is where it is designed specifically to work)…. Read more →
It looks like there is a chance for another round of severe weather tonight and into Thursday morning for Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Yup. More. via GIPHY Yeah, dude. Who ever you are. (anyone know where that is from?) From the SPC A wavy warm front was drawn across southwestern OK and extreme north-central TX (reinforced by outflow in those… Read more →
