Will The Severe Weather End? No April Fools

More tornado reports for Saturday, this time in Iowa and Nebraska, where one confirmed EF-1 tornado track for a mile was reported. Severe weather was once again very active over the middle portions of the nation. This is the seventh straight day in a row with severe weather between the High Plains of west Texas and New Mexico earlier in the week, to the current severe storms, flooding and isolated tornados over the eastern Plains states. This is all because of a upper level low pressure system that has been very slow to pull out to the east.

The severe weather on this first day of April, will be shifting eastward into the lower to upper Mississippi Valley, with a chance of more isolated tornados, hail and street flooding. Today will truly feel like April across the eastern locations of the nations with above temperatures and spring time rains.

People in the east and southeast are yelling for some of this heavy rain that has been falling over the mid sections for the last week. Florida especially is in a severe drought, with ongoing water restrictions and high wildfire dangers. High pressure ridging in the lower and mid levels of the atmosphere are keeping the southeast and Florida warm and dry. A developing La Nina could be helping with the early western Atlantic ridging, and this could also be setting up how the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane season could be.

Early ridging in the Southeast and over the western Atlantic Ocean have helped in the recent severe weather over the Plains in returning rich moisture to the Plains. At the same time, this could be signs of things to come with the mid level wind pattern. Western Atlantic ridge spells trouble later in the summer when hurricane form east of Florida and the Bahamas, steering these storms towards the Florida coast and into the Gulf where they round the ridge and threaten the northern Gulf coast, like New Orleans. I’m closely monitoring this, and I’m very tuned into the developing La Nina, the current western Atlantic Ridging, and the fast warming sea surface temperatures. Were now 60 days from the start of the 2007 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season. The hurricanes are on the horizon.

Enjoy this first day of April and have some fun with a few April fools. I know I am!