August certainly didn’t provide much chasing potential, and now that we’re into meteorological fall (begins Sept 1st) the outlook for chaseable storms definitely dims unless a tropical system gets into the act. However there are usually a few chances …
With the exception of a somewhat intense line of storms that blew through here Saturday evening we didn’t really have any “weekend wildness”, especially not from TS Danny. However as the above graphic indicates we’re still firmly in the Atlantic hurr…
Three months ago today I was at this exact spot in King George county filming and videoing a rain-free base between two cells when a funnel extended toward the earth. Today, I spied a decent cell on radar heading northward from the Caroline / Hanover…
Given TS Danny’s forecast track it doesn’t appear that we here in Virginia will get much out of it, either rain or chaseable storms. However, if the synoptic situation changes and the track shifts to the west things could be different. Here’s to ke…
This model depiction for 8 pm Friday evening shows a tropical system – rated highly probable to form by the National Hurricane Center – approaching the Outer Banks. Other models show this system recurving further out to sea on basically the same track…
This is what I get for being out of town today. This storm, crossing Potomac River between Dahlgren and Colonial Beach, shows obvious rotation (circled) in this doppler radar view at 8:02 pm. I would lay odds that there’s a significant wall cloud on …
Now that it seems safe to say that Hurricane Bill will completely miss the Mid-Atlantic (except for some high surf at the beaches) all eyes are turning toward the next little disturbance circled in yellow above. Will it develop into anything of note? …
This video is sped up 16 times, compressing over 15 minutes of real time into a little less than 1 minute. It shows the parent storm movement from southwest to northeast (quartering toward the right side of the frame) while the shelf cloud scoots from…
Given the paucity of storms in our area recently I took full advantage of an approaching cell in King George county to execute an August intercept yesterday afternoon (8/19). Nothing severe happened, but the outflow pushed out a neat shelf cloud as se…
At the moment Tropical Storm Ana has fizzled back into a depression, Tropical Storm Bill is gaining strength out in the Atlantic, and Tropical Storm Claudette is poised to hit the Florida panhandle in the next few hours. We went from no activity to th…
