Goooooood morning Rio Vista!!! After 4 days of Ben and I issuing marine surge alerts for Sunday I pulled the final trigger Saturday night: Forecast 7PM Saturday: “Marine Surge Alert! Sherman will absolutely RAGE all day tomorrow.” These images below, really layout the basic anatomy of a marine surge. 10 years ago marine surges always caught us…
Very interesting day today for the northeast as slightly warmer SW flow is overtaking the region. These days are often tricky because decoupling will keep the winds off the surface. Our forecast mentioned that the winds will be a bit fragile and recommended northern facing beaches over southern as the winds onset. …
This video from this Friday May, 31 shows the clouds and winds at about 18,000 feet in the pacific west of California. The dark green areas are high levels of moisture. The dark gray areas are very dry air. Notice the northward extending loop in the upper level clouds. This is called an upper level high…
By WeatherFlow meteorologist Shea Gibson. This is a snapshot of mesocyclone activity and all the tornadoes in and around Oklahoma City…WOWty and tornadoes in and
The recent synoptic setup lately provides us with a good example of a blocking high entrenched out in the Atlantic. A blocking high is simply an area of high pressure that is relatively stationary for an extended period of time. The series of surface maps below show the blocking high staying put through Saturday morning as it…
The North Pacific High is anchored to the Central California coast by a near Omega Block over the Great Plains. Once this pattern breaks down the North Pacific High will begin its normal wobbling about the pacific sometimes favoring California other times Hawaii. Mike Godsey
Rain can effect winds in very different ways depending on the vertical conditions. Today we saw a large area of precip into VA waters and check out the mixing induced by the showers on the western shores.