Weather, Storms & Hurricane Blog

Looking For Some Real Weather, Head To The Plains?

Well, I’m about over  all this nice, stable weather here in Florida. This ridging, and abundance of dry air, sinking motion, and lack of anything is beginning to take it’s toll on me. Early April had me out everyday shooting storm video, and now all I’m left with is rain free forecasts. Hoping for a pattern change as we get ready to close out the month of April. The extended look into the forecast computer models is not very promising over the Southeast and Florida for rain. The next possible decent shot looks to be around Monday / Tuesday, with the passage of a moderate cool front. Then next week looks like we might be in another blocking pattern into the extended forecast if you were to believe the GFS. Ugh!

Getting Out On The Trails, Good For The Heart and Mind

All this nice weather has allowed me to get out and Mountain Bike some trails, and over the last two days I’ve biked about 23 miles of trails. Brought along a small Mini-DV camera that I mounted to the bike incase I came across anything worth shooting video of, which last night was the sunset. The amount of wildlife you can come across while well off-road is quite impressive. I’ve seen about 5 snakes in the last few days, two of them being Rattlesnakes. I’m sure a lot of animals are moving around a bit in search of food and water since it’s been so dry lately.

Tornadoes and Supercells Active On The Plains

It’s nice to see fellow Storm Chasers out on the Plains already intercepting and capturing beautiful tornado video scenes out over the open rolling High Plains. CNN playing the heck out of some tornado video from West Texas Supercells yesterday. Congrats to all out chasing yesterday, and looks like there is more to come this afternoon with a moderate risk of severe storms and tornadoes in Southern Nebraska and a large portion of Kansas. The Central Plains states look to be the main severe weather action for today. I’ll be monitoring the situation out there via internet while sitting under this outstanding high pressure ridge with all this subsidence. [grin]

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