Looks like far southwestern Virginia got brushed by yesterday’s severe weather with a couple of hail reports down that way. It would have been nice to have had some of that action creep up this direction, but I was out of town anyway.On another note t…

The models are diverging again this winter! One long term forecast (the GFS forecast for Saturday evening is above) shows an Alberta-clipper type storm bearing down on northern Virginia Saturday night into Sunday morning, dumping ~3 inches of snow on …

I pushed the button today and published Volume Two of my chase chronicles. I have ordered my proof copy but won’t receive it for a few days, so I can’t verify that I’ve found all the mistakes yet. I can tell you that it is more photo intensive than t…

Here’s another article I wrote for a stormchasing forum a while back. I’m posting it to help alleviate everpresent SDS.LESSONS LEARNED It has been said that wisdom is learning from someone else’s experience. After several seaso…

The first radar image above shows the squall line at 2131 local time having cleared the Blue Ridge and maintaining its strength (as evidenced by the bright red reflectivity signature). The second image shows the line at 2157 as it neared the I-95 corr…

Alright!! We have our first Mesoscale Discussion (MD) of the 2009 chase season, and it looks like it will lead to a weather watch (probably a severe TS watch) in our region. Radar is currently showing a squall line over eastern WV associated with the…

Well now, lookie here. According to the SPC we have a 5% chance of severe weather associated with a cold frontal passage “sometime” Wednesday. Unfortunately the models are showing that sometime to be around midnight Wednesday for our specific area, m…

After my last post I became curious as to when the storm chase season began for us during the past few years. After perusing my chase logs (at www.cjwhite.us) this is what I found:2003: 21 March2004: 6 March2005: 11 March2006: 4 February (no Ma…

The local airport is currently reporting 14 degrees (F), while the forecast for tonight is for a low of 17. That doesn’t bode well for warm weather folks like me, but at least the dew point is back up to 10 degrees so the low tonight won’t get below …

I have posted a number of pictures from our 23 July 2008 Spotsylvania county chase during which we saw even more funnels and/or tornadoes than we originally thought. In the hopes of alleviating winter-time induced SDS (we did have almost an inch of sn…