Yep, we got snow last night! A whole half-inch (and that may be stretching it), or at least enough to dust bushes, cars, and driveways fell during several hours of light snowfall yesterday evening. This morning dawned under blue skies and brisk wind…
A week after Thanksgiving (which we enjoyed at home with our kids and my mom) the forecasts are pointing to an Alberta clipper racing through the Mid-Atlantic Saturday night. If the temperature and moisture phasing stay together we could get a light d…
I just read through a thread on one of the main stormchasing forums that asked the question “What is your ratio for funnels seen to tornadoes?”. (For clarification the circulation visible as a funnel is not a tornado unless it reaches the ground. To …
What a difference a week makes this time of year! Seven days ago I was out storm chasing, but since then we’ve been shivering through below-normal temperatures and have seen snow showers at least two days. It looks likes temperatures will moderate a …
Another look at the rotating wallcloud that caught my eye as we were calling it a chase.The updraft that produced the wallcloud; none of the cells were very high, which is why we never saw any lightning or heard any thunder…no charge separation.Anoth…
I didn’t expect yesterday’s chase until the SPC came out with their Day 2 convective forecast showing our region under a slight risk. The models really converged at the last minute and the local forecast texts even sounded good for both instability an…
Remember my previous wailings about the 2008 chase season being over? Well, I was a bit premature. My self-described Veterans’ Day bookend to the northern Virginia chase season was extended four days as my son and I tracked a squall line ahead of a …
Okay, where did this setup come from? When I last looked at models yesterday nothing looked very promising except that a strong November cold front was to blast through here, sweeping out the low clouds and moisture hanging around. Now we have a pote…
Wistful nostalgia always seems to set in this time of year as the realization that the chase season is finito hits pretty hard. Having written the first draft of my account of our 2008 mini-chase in the Plains I’ve reviewed a plethora of photos from t…
This photo shows that fall foliage has finally fleshed out in the Fredericksburg area…how’s that for alliteration? We’ve had sunshine yesterday and today after a pesky coastal storm kept clouds, drizzle, and a few showers over the Mid-Atlantic all w…
