This wallcloud video has been sped up several times to show the rotation I was seeing yesterday in one manifestation of this repeating feature. Still don’t know if I actually witnessed a funnel from this location or if it was just scud.
Wow, that’s a lot of W’s! I’ve been busy posting over at StormsRUs due to the recent spate of chaseable weather and I’ve neglected this blog. We’ve had a lot of rain and wild weather this week, including the late night multihour storming Tuesday nigh…
Whew! Today was so eventful that it’s hard to convey what all happened. I was able to get away and head out early to the Culpeper vicinity, arriving there about 1500 as individual cells were beginning to swell. After some deliberation I took on the …
As I indicated in an earlier post the model progs for today appeared to hold a good potential for severity, and boy did it happen! As I write this an incredible lightning show is ongoing and even more severe cells are approaching the area. (I’m not c…
Closeups of 28 May funnel(s). Per a prior posting I suspect this was actually a tornado (ground touchdown) given that the visual funnel stretched at least 2/3rds of the way down. But I saw no debris underneath this feature, so I have no proof.Meanwhi…
Today and tomorrow are the spring part, with comfortable temperatures and low dew points. Tuesday is another story as the humidity climbs and the temperatures strain toward the 90 degree level. It seems that yet another cold front will seep into our …
At least one forecast model is calling for some interesting conditions in northern VA late Tuesday afternoon. A combination of good instability, wind direction veering from southeast at the surface to south and southwest as you look upwards, and a hin…
After all was said and done yesterday I was a bit miffed at myself for not being patient enough to wait out the storms in the original intercept spot I’d selected in southeastern Fauquier county. I knew the line was building just east of the Blue Ridg…
Bad melodrama, but a good description of today’s weather. A line of storms plowed thru the vicinity mid-afternoon, dumping heavy rain and at dropping at least one funnel cloud that I witnessed from southern KG county. The conditions that created the …
So go figure…I spent all sorts of time and money on a chase trip to Tornado Alley without seeing a funnel cloud, and I go on a last-minute ho-hum so-what chase in my figurative backyard and see one on a day when little or no severe weather was foreca…
