A strong cold front, responsible for a significant severe thunderstorm outbreak across the Ohio, Tennessee and southern Mississippi River Valleys¬ on Thursday and Thursday night, will be weakening today (Fri., Nov. 1, 2013). By late on Saturday, that front…To read the entire feature, click here. Originally published 11/1/13
Read DetailsLower dew points have arrived in southwest Florida. For the past two and a half days, dew point temperatures at Regional Southwest Airport (RSW) in Fort Myers have remained in the comfortable 50’s. That’s a stark contrast…To read the entire feature, click here. Originally published 10/26/13
Read DetailsGreat news! The oppressively high dew point temperatures of the past week are going to become history in about three days. A series of cold fronts, each being reinforced by the one following it, will gradually make their way…To read the entire feature, click here. Originally published 10/22/13
Read DetailsFor the past week, a persistent upper level wind flow pattern has carried a series of storms from the western Pacific into the Alaska region. These have produced abnormally warmer and wetter than average weather in Alaska…To read the entire feature, click here. Originally published 10/21/13
Read DetailsThanks to a high-amplitude upper level wind pattern (Fig. 1), colder than average weather can be found across much of the Plains states early this Saturday morning (Oct. 19, 2013). An upper level ridge across western Canada and a companion upper level trough …To read the entire feature, click here.
Read DetailsFor the past week, hurricane forecasters at the National Hurricane Center have been following the exploits of a weak tropical system as it plodded across the Caribbean Sea. During the past two days, the system has gradually strengthened… To read the entire feature, click here. Originally published 10/3/13
Read DetailsTropical moisture is poised over the Florida Keys and southward into the Caribbean. This moisture is set to slowly advance northward across southwest Florida during the next few days. Associated with this northward surge in moisture is a weak area of…To read the entire feature, click here. Originally published 9/30/13
Read DetailsFriday, Sept. 20, 2013, was an awesome day across southwest Florida. Dew points tumbled to the upper 60’s by late in the afternoon, while skies above were dotted only with fair weather cumulus clouds. Rain was a no-show. Many locals wanted to take the day off…To read the entire feature,
Read DetailsFlorida has been punctuated by excessive rainfall in some places and deficits in others so far in 2013. The Panhandle has been waterlogged since late spring thanks to a tropical storm system and a series of stationary fronts that parked themselves across the area. Southwest Florida has suffered through persistent,
Read DetailsThis year, south Florida does not need a tropical storm or hurricane to waterlog the landscape. The routine ebb and flow of daily thunderstorms has done just fine. And, much like Sun., Sept. 15, 2013, thunderstorms this Monday (Sept. 16, 2013) are going to bring more heavy rainfall to…To read
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