by Meteorologist, Kerry Challoner Anderson This week an unusually strong High-pressure system dropped out of the Canadian Plains into the Rockies. The center of the High trekked through Wyoming and Colorado bringing early season snowfall and setting off strong downsloping winds through the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. The storm had all the ingredients for a…
By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson on 9/9/2020 We certainly had a tough time this year pronouncing the name “Isaias”, which led to several meteorologists stumbling over the name at least once or twice during discussions. But this also sparked interest in how these names are picked, what other names are on the list and how…
Weatherflow San Francisco Bay Area wind forecast by Mike Godsey San Francisco Bay Area forecast at 11:30 AM: Looking at over a dozen cams about the Bay Area and at the satellite imagery we see an apocalyptic scene filled with reddish smoke intermingled with marine layer fog. Streetlights are still on at 11 AM and…
by Matt Souders with graphics by Mike Godsey. This historic early-season easterly wind event got off to a dangerous start this morning. High winds over Yakima, WA fanned the flames over an 80 sq. mile wildfire. The smoke from that fire can be seen in this visible satellite loop arcing SW, then westward over the…
by Meteorologist Kerry Anderson California is seeing unprecedented heat this Labor Day weekend. Sunday the National Weather Service reported a temperature of 120 in Reseda. Meanwhile, the Santa Barbara shoreline barely broke into the 70s. Why such contrasts? First, we are seeing an astonishingly strong upper-level ridge over the area. Monday’s 500mb map (below) indicates…
By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson on 8/30/2020 We have certainly see quite a bit of activity in the month of June, including a US landfall over western Lousiana by a major CAT 4 Hurricane Laura on Thursday, August 27, 2020. Many records have been broken this year with getting to early names in the alphabet…
By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson 8/26/20 at ~11:30PM ET We are about to see an incredibly dangerous/catastrophic storm make landfall along the western LA coast as a strong CAT 4 with winds of 150mph. This storm has rapidly intensified over the last 24hrs as it left Cuba and wobbled across the Gulf of Mexico. Just…
by Meteorologist, Kerry Challoner Anderson As Hurricane Laura approaches the Louisiana and Texas coasts, it brings with it the potential for producing devastating storm surge. Storm surge is created when sustained strong winds flow across an ocean for an extended time period. Those winds push against the water, and since the liquid is free to…
If the model data is right it looks like we are transitioning into 7 days of a steadily enlarging eddy. To put this in perspective… 20 years ago we saw an eddy once or twice a season. This animation below shows some of the major surface players in creating this scenario over the next…
By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson. Latest discussion on the tropics 8/19/20 9:30PM ET… Shea Gibson WeatherFlow Meteorologist/Wind Forecaster SE Region / East Coast / Tropics New Stations Projects & Outreach Twitter: @WeatherFlowCHAS Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeatherFlowCHAS/