By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson The start of the Atlantic Basin hurricane season is June 1st and goes through November 30th each year. Typically, we might see a few small homegrown or near coastal systems develop along tail end of cold fronts…or warm, moist easterly trade winds helping spawn a few tropical waves into the western…
by Meteorologist Kerry Challoner Anderson In our forecasts we frequently discuss the temperature variations across the forecast area and how these contrasting mini air masses will create the winds most of our customers are looking for. Yesterday the Rocky Mountains felt the effects on a much larger scale as two large and very different air…
by Meteorologist, Kerry Anderson The first day of forecasting in the Spring season feels like a bear coming out of hibernation. It is time to dust off the forecasting tools and see what patterns Mother Nature throws at you for the season. After a long winter the hope is always that there won’t be any…
by WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson Get ready Great Lakes for a possible “November Witch” to broom into the area by Thursday/Friday with a cauldron of warm air, cold air and violent gales! The name comes from intensifying Low pressures with a clashing of warm air, rain and storms ahead drawn up from the Gulf of…
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By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson. My latest tropical update 9/26/16 at 10:00PM: Stay safe! Shea Gibson WeatherFlow Meteorologist SE Region/East Coast/Tropics Outreach & New Weather Station Projects Twitter: @WeatherFlowCHAS
by Meteorologist, Kerry Challoner Anderson The internet has been filled with video and images of the Haboob- the dust storm that pushed through Arizona on Tuesday as a line of thunderstorms rolled up from the south. Well there is more than one way to record the storm and at WindAlert our specialty is recording wind events on our…
By Meteorologist, Kerry Challoner Anderson A large dome of High pressure has covered California this week. The descending air creates a cap on the atmosphere, keeping cooler boundary layer air from escaping. Along the coast the descending warmer air squashes the marine airmass. This limits the height of any marine layer fog and stratus that may…
by Meteorologist, Kerry Challoner Anderson The Marine Layer has been the starring attraction of our forecasts the last few days. I know I have devoted a lot time determining the depth of the layer, how far it will move inland and when it will burn off and then a of print space communicating that information…
by Meteorologist, Kerry Anderson Springtime for Southern California is of course marked by flowers and blossoms like most locations but it also spells a return of the prevailing NorthWesterlies. Mike Godsey detailed the formation of these winds a few weeks ago so I won’t go in more depth than to say that as the SubTropical…