This is always a busy time of the year in the upper level wind department. Large temperature contrasts across the northern hemisphere are causing the winds aloft to intensify, and that means a more active pattern with fast moving fronts. Look at some of the wind speeds at 30,000 ft!
We just had a front move [...]
September is just about over, so here are the averages for the month of October. This is a great time of the year across our area; just wait until the leaves really start changing! We’ll be updating those changes as the reports start to come in, so stay tuned to the weather blog over the [...]
The two blue circles highlight the remnants of “Kyle” to the north and the newly named tropical storm or more aptly titled “subtropical” storm “Laura”. Laura shares both characteristics of a mid-latitude storm system and a tropical system. It is a hybrid storm of sorts. Here’s a more formal definition from the AMS Glossary:
subtropical cyclone—A [...]
Many people have been wondering when the average first freeze happens across our viewing area. Ask and you shall receive. Even though we’re going to be cool this week, freezing temperatures do look to stay away.
It’s been a beautiful day across the entire area; however, some cooler changes are very evident behind a cold front highlighted in blue. Most impressive are the dewpoints to our northwest. Look at the dry air across Kansas and Nebraska; dewpoints have fallen into the upper 20s and low to mid 30’s. In response to the dry air there [...]
The big cold front that we have been waiting for to cool our temperatures down finally arrives later today. When we are looking at the movement of cold air, the best way to follow the temperature trends is from the 850 millibar map. The 850 millibar map is about 6000 feet above sea level and [...]
If you’ve ever been to the beach and done some body surfing or perhaps boogie boarding or surfing, you know that waves come in sets. The same can almost be said for the atmosphere; sometimes a quiet weather pattern is followed by a set of waves (weather disturbances in this sense), which can successively intensify, [...]
Kyle is struggling to maintain intensity and / or strengthen! Part of the problem is a steady stream of 20 Kt. westerly winds, shearing the storm apart. In fact, most of the strong thunderstorms and highest winds are on the right hand side of the storm. Most of the left hand side is just marked [...]
We have been warmer than average over the past several days and everyone is wondering when it’s finally going to feel like fall. Well, the wait will soon be over as a cold front will be moving in out of the west and northwest by Tuesday.
TUESDAY MORNING SURFACE MAP
This front won’t have that much moisture [...]
Over the past several days, a weather disturbance near Puerto Rico has been flirting with tropical characteristics and organization; it has now officially become “Kyle”, the eleventh named storm of the 2009 Tropical Atlantic season. For a while, a coastal Low which is now impressively “spun-up” off the southeast coast looked like it was going [...]
