April 3, 2012 Texas tornado videos
U.S. Tornadoes owner/co-author Ian and I have been compiling tornado footage from the outbreak in Texas today. We’re still adding to it, but so far we’ve found 16 videos! You can view them on the U.S. Tornadoes blog: http://www.ustornadoes.com/2012/04/03/videos-of-the-april-3-2012-tornado-outbreak/ It might take a few seconds to load due to pulling in the video previews from [...]
First major lake-effect event of the season
Not going to put a map out on this one, but the first significant lake-effect snow storm of the season is nearly upon us. Locally, the mountains of West Virginia could see 6-12″ with localized amounts of 12-18″+ in the best-positioned areas. Similar totals can also be expected downwind of Lake Ontario and Lake Erie [...]
SNOW possible in the higher elevations this weekend
A shot of cool air is expected this weekend up and down the eastern U.S., with lows in the 30s possible in the higher elevations and maybe even northern MD. DC looks like it will stay in the low to mid 40s at its coldest point on Sunday morning (and possibly Monday morning). The 12z [...]
Mid-Atlantic Discussion – Aug 3, 2011
So… here we are a month after the last Mid-Atlantic write-up (the event failed, BTW) with a new threat and different variables as we look at tomorrow’s severe weather. Gonna just list the pros and cons and go from there: PROS: – Good low-level speed and directional shear. – Excellent low-level lapse rates. – Upper-level [...]
Strong storms roll through MD, DC, VA
Strong to severe storms pushed NW to SE across the region this afternoon and early evening, which are now mostly south of the DC area. Didn’t get hit by too much in Germantown, but the lightning was great. Plenty of CGs all around, despite my bad luck of getting good screen captures off of the [...]
Chasecation Day 4 – Recapping Yesterday’s Brush Fire
While on our way to Ellinwood, KS yesterday we spotted a sizable plume of smoke and went towards it. It turned out to be a decent brush fire, which had a couple of brief firenadoes and a good amount of visually-striking smokenadoes. Here is a video of the brush fire and smokenadoes: The smoke was [...]
16 April 2011 Storm Chase (Pt. 3 of 3) – Chase Log
Jason Foster and I left Gaithersburg, MD a few minutes after 8am to make the trek down to North Carolina for what turned out to be one of the biggest East Coast tornado outbreaks in history. The plan was to be near Wilson, NC around 12:30-1:00pm to eat and begin our chase. However, being the [...]
