So, since the Atlantic hurricane season officially runs thru November 30th we shouldn’t be surprised to see a tropical system form this time of year. The surprising part is that the “I” named storm occurred this late in the season. Normally the ninth…

This is the first identifiable wall cloud we saw north of I-40 in Oklahoma on May 13th 2009 while chasing the “tail end Charlie” storm on a line that stretched several states north of us. This storm produced the night time tornado over Anadarko OK abo…

From our May 12th 2009 chase northeast of Lubbock TX. This was my first chase (a) in the Texas Panhandle and (b) of a dry line storm. Other than very dusty and windy storm outflow we didn’t see much, but the outflow that slammed through this area was…

Given the changeable forecast discussions being tossed around today I didn’t pay much attention to the overcast conditions this afternoon. I thought we were only going to be blessed with virga – rain shafts that evaporate before hitting the ground – g…

I normally don’t cut and paste items here from other places, but I couldn’t resist these clips from tonight’s NWS Sterling forecast discussion:WE ARE PLAYING A WX GAME HERE LATELY CALLED “THE THING THAT WOULDNT LEAVE”….EDITORIAL COMMENT…IT SURE WOU…

There is a line of rainshowers now crossing the Blue Ridge that is associated with the cold front that is helping to scour out the low level crud left over from three(!!!) successive days of cold air damming. This line looks as if it is falling apart,…

This was the SPC’s tornado probability chart for this past Saturday, accompanied by an overall slight risk designation for the Mid-Atlantic. (A five percent area is actually pretty good for us.) There were no severe reports from that day, which in my…

Now I realize we need rain to water our lawns, fill our reservoirs, and raise the river levels to where they should be. It’s the drizzly overcast crud that I quickly tire of, and that seems to be on the menu for the next few days. Tonight’s rain was …

Soooooooo….how did we wind up with a bit of late November weather crammed into our second week of October? It was all thanks to a large upper level trough that slammed down the Eastern seaboard and provided us with unsettled weather and record cold …

As I noted last year Veterans’ Day provides an average end to the chase season here in northern Virginia. That’s usually when a strong autumn cold front blows through and signals the entrance of a convective drought that lasts until roughly late March…