BULLETIN – EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED   TORNADO WARNING  NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NORMAN OK  526 PM CDT MON MAY 10 2010    THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NORMAN HAS ISSUED A    * TORNADO WARNING FOR…   NOR…

Looks like the SPC’s High Risk for today is verifying.  Check out all the radar-indicated tornadic signatures (purple triangles) shown in the above view from the Wichita KS airport high-def radar.  It’s a chaser’s dream day, but there are a l…

We’ll have low temperatures bottoming out in the upper 30’s by tomorrow morning, with winds slowly decreasing all night.  I don’t think we’ll see frost here in the ‘Burg, but we could have a slight bit of frozen dew on car tops and hoods in the mo…

Given that the cold front passed through the Northern Virginia area around 10:00 a.m. I was not expecting a chase today.  I was headed to the metropolis of Orange this morning so I couldn’t have chased anything that happened east of I-95 anyway.&n…

With the passage of this morning’s cold front we will see (a) drastically cooler temperatures and (b) winds more characteristic of March than May.  The official NWS Sterling forecast mentions gusts up to 40 mph today, and high temps will remain in…

Doesn’t look like Friday will be productive as of my latest perusal of the forecast models, but early Saturday afternoon may hold some promise.  The solutions seem to be slowing down the frontal passage just a bit, sliding it through the I-95 corr…

The NWS Sterling forecast for our area has a slight chance of storms Friday afternoon with better chances Friday night and Saturday.  The GFS seems to want to speed up the oncoming system and associated cold front, pushing the front through here e…

This was made obvious by the debacle of the past few days with the horrendous flooding in the lower Mississippi valley caused by incredible amounts of rain.  The forecast models didn’t handle this situation very well at all, apparently assuming th…

Let’s see…Thursday morning I walked out to find frost on top of the cars and scattered around the neighborhood yards.  This morning it feels like July:  humid, warm, with a hint of storms later on.  Welcome to May in Virginia! At the b…

Just for the heck of it I’m posting this enhanced video frame capture of a CG strike (right side) and lowered base (left side) on the storm I was watching from a perch just north of the Rappahannock River in King George county.  The storm itself w…