Thunderstorm season in the Northeast US is off to an eye opening start after yesterday’s severe weather outbreak. A strong squall or line of thunderstorms passed through MA down to NJ in the late afternoon and evening bringing damaging winds and localized hail. In the radar image below, note the gust front ahead…
Yesterday’s forecast was a tough one so I made sure to check back this evening to verify. We know we may not always be exactly right and so the process of verifying helps us to learn and improve and also to understand the eccentricities of each model. WeatherFlow has a suite of models to chose…
Early Spring Cold Weather Sea Breezes in the Northeast 4/10/18 …
Take a look a the close-up animation I made of the WRF Southern California Isobars. 1. It appears to be far higher than 3km res. 2. Note the exceptionally tight isobars are all over the mountains at all times of the day. 3. The isobars around mountains do not shift as you would expect from night…
From a scientific perspective the shorter days of fall and the decreasing angle of the sun bring weakening pressure gradients while the North Pacific High moves further from the San Francisco Bay Area coast. This all means weaker winds. This week saw all of that plus an upper ridge of high pressure at ≈ 18,000 ft. moved…
Yesterday I had to drive to PDX so I missed the very strong Hatch winds. But I dropped by the Hatch mid day to check out the wind just as the 10+ day fire went crazy just west of Stevenson and also made a lunge towards Hood River. From the Hatch I could see helicopters…
Below is an animation of the wind patterns of Hurricane Harvey on Friday Aug. 25 as modeled by the ECMWF.
SC Offshore Water Temperatures, Currents, and Fish Tim Kent 5/25/17 Spring is here, signaling the annual run of Dolphin fish off the Southeast Coast. This fishery provides a large economic impact to coastal communities and coincides with warm water from the Gulf Stream shifting over the continental shelf where it interacts with cooler shelf water….
So, San Diego isn’t exactly known for its wealth of wind. This is especially true in the summer. But today is an exception! Just how has this happened? We’re seeing strong NW flow across the far outer waters of the bight. There is high heat in the inland areas as offshore flow prevails. A…