“Grazing the Net” blog had an interesting story this week about a farm in Texas that goes above and beyond the usual to protect their investment in prime livestock from severe weather. This farm is a breeding facility for champion horses, and they have a number of stallions with a…
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If you like to look at maps, you might find this map from the NWS Storm Prediction Center interesting. They have collected all of the severe weather reports from across the US and put them all on one map for 2015. Looking closely at it brings out a lot of…
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Today is the anniversary of the tornado that hit Atlanta, Georgia, on March 14, 2008. It made a big impression on me because it is one of the few tornadoes I have seen directly impacting my area (I don’t storm chase, I let the tornadoes come to me). My husband…
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The tornado intercept and study program called VORTEX-SE started March 1. This field project, Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes EXperiment-Southeast, will send scientists out across the Southeast on days that are likely to have severe weather to study the development and evolution of tornadic supercell storms as systems…
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For meteorologists and climatologists, March 1 marks the first day of spring. Spring is the season when severe weather really ramps up in many parts of the country, although in the Southeast we can and do get severe weather any time of year. In recognition of this, the National Weather…
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The recent storm system that passed through the Southeast brought severe weather, including tornadoes, to parts of the region, including North Carolina. The State Climate Office of North Carolina has published a blog post today that describes the storms that hit their state at http://climate.ncsu.edu/climateblog?id=179&h=5666e5c1, along with some tornado climatology for…
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There is a good chance of severe weather for parts of the Southeast on Tuesday and Wednesday, particularly later in the day on Tuesday. The Day 2 convective forecast map from Monday night highlights the area that is most likely to be hit by tornadoes in southern Mississippi and Alabama,…
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