So it’s March in Virginia…that can mean everything from snow to severe weather (and chasing!). Today it meant snow, as we woke up to a coating of the white stuff on grass and cars but not on the road surfaces. We actually had an inch or so covering…
After last weekend’s beautiful weather we’re settling back down to more normal March weather: cool, cloudy, and windy, with a bit of precipitation thrown in. Unfortunately that also means a chance for frozen stuff, which sounds like what we’re in for…
Things look like they’ve crystallized for our May chasing trip to the Plains. I’ll be meeting my brother (who is driving up from Austin) at the Dallas/Ft. Worth airport the morning of May 7th, meaning I get my rear end out of bed at oh-dark-thirty tha…
You can tell it’s March in northern Virginia when the low temperature yesterday morning was 7 degrees F, the low this morning was 9 degrees, and the forecast highs this coming weekend are in the low 70’s. (One would think that the snow cover that is p…
I’m finishing up my morning coffee and contemplating the magnitude of the shoveling job ahead of me. It looks like we have 7-8″ of snow on the ground but it’s tough to tell given the drifting caused by the winds. According to radar the snow should sto…
As I’m writing this I’m watching a serious snowstorm get started here in northern Virginia, with totals forecast to be in the 5-10″ range depending on where one is located. As I’ve stated in earlier posts winter is most assuredly not my favorite seaso…
The above HPC graphic shows the 10% and 40% probability curves for at least 12 inches of snow for a wide swath of the eastern Mid-Atlantic. Suffice it to say that the probability curves for lesser amounts are almost off the chart. We haven’t had a Ma…
Check it out…the HPC (Hydrometeorological Prediction Center) has the I-95 corridor in Virginia in the bullseye for at least 4 inches of snow between Sunday morning and Monday morning. We haven’t had much more than dustings this winter, but it looks …
Given the current weather patterns not much is happening in the chasing world. Even Tornado Alley is fairly quiescent, but I expect that to change in the next few weeks. I’m still negotiating for a chase trip out that way in May, but nothing concrete…
I’ve been thinking…and that can be dangerous, but this time it has to do with another chase trip to the Plains. Since our prior family chase trips have generally proved “close but no cigar”, I have analyzed them and concluded the following:a. We hav…
