• Velocity Potential: Subseasonal Forecasting Using a Hovmoller Diagram
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  • Cooler, Drier, Wetter, Hotter: A Look at the Upcoming Pattern Flip
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Heat Lightning: Fact or Fiction?

If your childhood summers were anything like mine, your evening outside playtime was mostly under clear, hot skies punctuated by brilliant flashes of distant lightning. That lightning always seemed to …
by Meghan Gulledge/ 07/08/2022/ No Comments/

An Introduction to Teleconnections

Our atmosphere is a fluid. The weather in one part of the world inevitably has impacts on the type of weather that occurs later on downstream. One way to analyze …
by Meghan Gulledge/ 07/06/2022/ No Comments/

Explaining the Monsoon

If you’re a frequent checker of the SPC outlooks, you may have noticed the general thunderstorm category extends just a little further south and west than is usual. In fact, …
by Meghan Gulledge/ 06/20/2022/ 2 Comments/

The Ring of Fire: Not Just a Song

Have you heard of the Ring of Fire? I’m not talking about the Johnny Cash song. I’m not even talking about the active faults and volcanoes outlining the Pacific Ocean. …
by Meghan Gulledge/ 06/14/2022/ No Comments/

Explaining the Tropics: The Central American Gyre

Today I’m going to do a short explainer on a term you may hear a lot during hurricane season, especially in early and/or late season: The Central American Gyre (CAG). …
by Meghan Gulledge/ 06/09/2022/ 1 Comment/

Concerning Cyclones

Tropical Cyclones, Sub-Tropical Cyclones, Extra-Tropical Cyclones – what’s the difference? They’re all swirly areas of low pressure with wind and rain, right? Well, yes, but there are distinct differences that …
by Meghan Gulledge/ 05/10/2022/ No Comments/

Common Severe Weather Soundings Explained

I’m going to do something a little different with today’s blog. I had a request from one of my readers to explain a few of the more “common” types of …
by Meghan Gulledge/ 05/04/2022/ No Comments/

A Most Disastrous Derecho, One Year Ago

I spend a lot of time thinking about weather records. Some events seem so perfectly suited for setting records that they appear, with retrospect, unapproachable. For example, take the derecho …
by Guest Author/ 08/10/2021/ No Comments/

The Grip of a Megadrought, Part 3: A Slow, Violent Burn

Heat is pervasive, searing, angry. It swells and crashes over us like waves, smothering and suffocating and crushing. If cold is a knife, heat is a hammer. This week, from …
by Guest Author/ 06/17/2021/ No Comments/

The Grip of a Megadrought, Part 2: Lurching Through Disaster

It’s amazing what two months of a persistent atmospheric pattern can do in an environment as fragile as the West’s. In 2017, two months of repetitive, fanning atmospheric river events …
by Guest Author/ 06/14/2021/ No Comments/

The Grip of a Megadrought, Part 1: A Catastrophe Crawls To Life

Some weather disasters strike with a suddenness rivaled only by their ferocity. They are tornadoes, flash floods, derechos, blizzards and hurricanes; they lash out all at once, pummeling mankind from …
by Guest Author/ 06/12/2021/ No Comments/

Air Mass Thunderstorms Explained

Once again this afternoon, pop-up storms with locally heavy rainfall are occurring across the eastern half of the United States. A potent ridge sits over this part of the country …
by Meghan Gulledge/ 06/09/2021/ No Comments/

Tropical Cyclones 101: Glossary Of Common Terms

Hi, As hurricane season is starting, we thought, you might be interested in a recap of this awesome guide from last year that helps you navigate some of the most …
by weathermodels Admin/ 06/08/2021/ No Comments/
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