Today marks the 75th anniversary of the national release of “The Wizard of Oz,” one of the most first movies to depict tornadoes and still one of the best, in my opinion. Not bad for a moving tube of fabric! The tornado looks just as realistic as many created by…
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I was in Jekyll Island last week attending the Georgia Environmental Conference and saw this beautiful scene outside my hotel window one morning: The rays which appear to be stretching out from the horizon are called crepuscular rays, and are actually beams of sunlight shining through breaks in clouds below…
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This map of satellite-based temperature anomalies from July 27 to August 3 shows the strong temperature gradients that have occurred across North America due to the large ridge of high pressure on the west coast of the US and the deep trough of low pressure in the east. Areas in…
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The New York Times has an interesting map which shows the changing drought across the US. You can see the growth and decay of drought in the Texas panhandle as well as the increasing severity of drought in California. Access it here. The text indicates the drought is increasing as…
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Here is a neat tool for looking at historical tornado tracks across the country. It is run by the Midwestern Climate Center using the official Storm Prediction Center database and mapped onto an interactive map. You can zoom into your county and filter by date and Fujita scale of tornado. …
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The National Weather Service in Peachtree City posted this radar image of a high-intensity rainfall event today in Heard County which shows that some areas of the county received eight inches or more of rainfall in just a few hours (regions in purple). However, the CoCoRaHS network has only one…
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The Climate Prediction Center website shows that for the next two weeks, much of the eastern US is going to be much colder than usual, and the Southeast is likely to be wetter than normal. You can find these prediction maps at www.cpc.noaa.gov. The wet and cool conditions should help…
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