Tea partying through Tornadoes in the middle of the night!
The Storm Prediction Center has placed portions of Middle Tennessee under a Slight Risk for severe thunderstorms for this afternoon. This does include Nashville and Franklin. After yesterday’s large hail event, I’m sure many of you want to know if you need to prepare for it again. The short answer is yes, the long answer [...]
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Today was a fairly significant severe weather day across much of the United States. Areas from the Ohio Valley all the way into the Deep South have experience tornadoes today; unfortunately, there have been over 20 fatalities reported so far. Also, there are 77 tornado reports *so far*, and the day isn’t over. These are [...]
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So guess what? My forecast for severe weather on Thursday night was wrong. Not only was it wrong; it was *completely* wrong! We didn’t see a single drop of rain. I wanted to take the time to acknowledge the fact that I was wrong, because it is important to not only own up to our [...]
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So… am I the only one getting a kick out of the false prediction of Groundhog Day? Obviously spring has come around; after all, temps in the 70s and severe weather are in the forecast for tomorrow! You mean to tell me that spring hasn’t arrived? Ok, ok, I’ll stop. In all seriousness, a decent [...]
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Hand map analysis is what meteorologists did not so long ago, before computers were awesome enough to compute everything for us in a flash. In fact, it was once the main method of developing a forecast. Someone at the National Weather Service was in charge of contouring the maps from the latest observations, and the [...]
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I am pleased to announce that AWIDS pre-alpha 1.0.0 has been released for public use! For those of you who are just joining, AWIDS is a program I have been building in Python to view meteorological data and plot it on a map. AWIDS stands for Advanced Weather Interactive Diagnostic System, a play on the [...]
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While I was at the American Meteorological Society conference, I had the unique opportunity to hear several speakers present on the tornado disasters of 2011. The April 27th tornado outbreak, the Joplin tornado, the May 24th Oklahoma outbreak, and the North Carolina tornadoes are just a few to name. Some of the talks discussed the [...]
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The last week has been active weather wise for much of the southeast, including a damaging wind event in Tennessee (with a reported funnel cloud) and the damaging tornado event in Alabama (6 tornadoes; 1 EF-3). As many of you may have noticed, I did not update the website or even twitter once during that [...]
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A lot of progress has been made since the last post about my python program. And I mean a lot. For starters, the METAR decoder has completely changed structure/methods, grid plotting has been moved to a new and separate module called gridmaker, international stations in the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Canada have been added, and lastly, a whole new approach to gridding the surface data. Intrigued? Read ahead.
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If you follow me on Twitter or are friends of mine on Facebook or Google+, you’ll have seen posts and photos about a program I have been building. Well, the time has come to discuss in full what this program is all about, what my intentions are, and how this all works. This post is [...]
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