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/
by Mike Godsey, mike AT windsurf.com This photo, taken by Jaden Schaul @santacruzfilms, shows roll clouds at the leading edge of thunderstorm and lightning at Santa Cruz last night. The graphic at the end of this blog shows how roll clouds form in thunderstorms. Long time WeatherFlow customer Ron P. lives in Greenbrae in…
Part 1 the big picture. The headlines are heating up about record temperatures being set from Salt Lake City to Tucson to Dallas and to the 0 percent contained ravaging Southern California fires. At this time it looks like Death Valley, the hottest place on the planet, will reach 127 by Monday. In response, the…
by Meteorologist Kerry Challoner Anderson. It is not usual to have rain, let alone thunderstorms in Southern California in the summer. But when subtropical moisture is tapped that is exactly what we get. Here is a look at why you will need to watch for lightning if you are heading to the beach.
Maybe you’ve seen satellite images or loops of beautiful moving cloudscapes, ever-changing and flowing through the atmosphere. Sure, the quality of the images makes for amazing time-lapse movies, but do you know how to read what the clouds are telling you? Stay tuned for a quick lesson from a typical Florida July day. The loop…
by Meteorologist Kerry Challoner Anderson The Upper Midwest experienced a Derecho on Monday, August 10, 2020. This is not a common event, so you may not be familiar with a Derecho. In fact, this area of the country only sees, on average, one Derecho event per year. Derechos are defined as a line of fasting…
This is just a quick visual on the just forming small eddy west of the Golden Gate. This eddy will greatly enlarge during the next 12 hours and bring southerly winds to much of the Central California coast. It is all a matter of perspective… All available data still supports this bipartisan forecast. Watch…
Gusts and lulls, up and down, crazy wind. Why are winds sometimes mild and other times wild? There are many complex meteorological causes for the turbulence that causes gusts and lulls, but here we focus on gusts and lulls winds where the causes are very local and easy to visualize. The local cause of gusts…