The Doppler on Wheels team, headed by Josh Wurman & Karen Kosiba, announced Wednesday on the FARM website the establishment of a new partnership with the University of Alabama Huntsville. The partnership comes after several years of intense and focused research in the Southeastern United States by both organizations in an effort to better understand […]
Doppler On Wheels Team Announces Partnership with UA Huntsville Read More »
As far as August is concerned, it’s been fantastic out there for the last little while – we can take today just as an example… we have widespread upper-80s/lower-90s, and LOW HUMIDITY, and it’s conditions like this that are hard to beat, if you ask me. Fortunate for us, this is more or less what
The cooldown has been nice… but triple-digits return soon! Read More »
If you’ve been a viewer of Tennessee Valley Weather for any amount of time, you’d have heard us discuss several times before just how many various tools we have at our disposal to investigate radar data to find possibly dangerous areas of rotation – be it from analyzing the structure of storms on radar, or
Correlation Coefficient – A Meteorologists Best Friend During Tornadoes Read More »
In the warm seasons here in the South, especially this time of year, we see almost weekly some form of stormy or unsettled weather, if we aren’t in some sort of major drought. With those storms often come heavy rain, lightning and more often than not, scary skies sweeping across the Valley – we’ve all
Wall Cloud vs. Shelf Cloud: What’s the Difference? Read More »
The title of this roundup is perhaps one of the more cruel cases of irony seen in this wild year of weather – but it’s exactly the situation out west. Over the last several days, the small town of Ruidoso, New Mexico has faced an onslaught wind, fire, and rain, unfortunately thus far culminating in
Weekly Weather Roundup – Fires and Floods Engulf a New Mexico Town Read More »
The next generation of weather observation satellites continues on next week with the upcoming launch of GOES-U. For the last 50 years, NOAA has operated a family of Geostationary (that is, rotating once ever 24 hours, appearing to “hover” over one spot) satellites solely dedicated to monitoring the entire weather patterns across the entirety of
New Weather Satellite to Launch on Falcon Heavy Read More »
It’s been something of a busy severe weather season worldwide, and this week has certainly not bucked the trend. To kick things off, the dominant weather pattern in the US has been that of a broad, high pressure system across the central majority of CONUS, mostly relegating heat to the middle parts of the country,
Weekly Weather Roundup – Floods in America, Tornadoes in China… Read More »
New data coming in from today seems to suggest trends in favor of the possibility of some stronger thunderstorm activity as we wrap up our weekend. First things first, as of this afternoon the entire Tennessee Valley is under a level 1 out of 5 risk of severe weather as issued by the Storm Prediction
Strong Thunderstorms Possible Sunday Afternoon Read More »
If you’ve ever lived or spent a lengthy amount of time in the high North, you may have run into the Aurora a few times in your life – the beautiful pillars of pink, purple, green and everything in-between that sometimes can even be bright enough to cast shadows at night; but it wasn’t long
The Aurora – A Quick Explainer About What You See Read More »
Five people were killed in the town of Greenfield, Iowa and dozens more were left injured following a significant tornado outbreak in the Midwest on Tuesday – and scientists are sifting through metaphorical tons of data following several close-range intercepts by chaser teams and mobile doppler radars alike to try and discern features yet unseen
Doppler on Wheels Teams Measure Winds of 250+mph in Iowa Tuesday Read More »
