Weather, Storms & Hurricane Blog

I Have Made It Through The Worst Of My Winter Weather Blues
Another chilly Florida night last night, but I stayed warm diving deep into the forecast computer models looking over data for the next severe weather setup, and also unpacking a lot of my Storm Chasing hardware toys for my vehicle. It‘s March, and the […]

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Plains storm season returns this afternoon and evening after a break from the severe weather. Yesterday, large hail storms developed over the northern High Plains in South Dakota. Hail and damaging winds were the main outcome of the storms. Here is a radar picture of one of the severe hail storms east of Rapid City, […]

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Normally I would be out in Tornado Alley about this time, as much of the month of May would be my annual chase season expedition. The last two years, I have opted not to take these long three week dedicated trips, as in 2006 much of May was ridged with no decent weather patterns for […]

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Four weeks and counting until the start of the 2007 Atlantic Hurricane Season. Can you believe it? It’s almost hurricane season once again! In four weeks some my daily weather attention will turn to the tropics, as I begin to monitor tropical waves and tropical disturbances in the deep tropics. The early part of the […]

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Spent some of the day yesterday running around doing hardware errands to get things ready for the full blown storm chase season. I’m also working with a local publication on a series of hurricane stories for Florida Hurricane Week, and was meeting on that as well. Weather-wise things are just basically very slow here in […]

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Spring is in the air and today starts the first full week in April. April marks the beginning of the Storm Chasing season for many chasers across the country. With all the tornandoes captured last week, the season is starting off a lot different than the last two seasons. As for today, there is a […]

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Are you sure it’s only macaroni size Amos? I wanted to throw up a post with some of our old Great Plains chasing expedition from 2003, where we saw a lot of large hail events. That season, Chris Collura, my chase partner, would jump onboard with fellow Chaser Scott Blair, and they would hail core […]

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