Weekly Outlook (August 13th-20th)

Another week of stalled fronts along the southern US and cooler weather continues for some, heats up for others later in the week and beyond. Featured image above shows high mid level moisture and storms across the deep south (noted by brighter white blobs).  The image below shows today’s stalled front in the deep south.…

Weekend outlook August 12th – 13th

  The image above is rain fall over the last 7 days. As you can see places in east Tennessee and parts of coastal Carolina got in on the heavy rain (as hinted at in the latest Latest weekly outlook ) Saturday’s surface map above showing an incoming cold font across the eastern US. This will likely…

Rain returning to the South East and Southern Plains into the weekend

Today’s featured image comes from Space Science and Engineering Center website from the US latest weather satellite GOES-16 which was launched into space last November (2016). It is currently non operational (meaning it’s not being used in forecast operations just yet but going through a testing phase) and it’s available to the public through a few websites. Back…

Weekly Outlook (August 6-13)

A very wet week is in store for a lot of people from the Southern Plains eastward as a stalled frontal boundary will be the focus for heavy rain and storms off and on throughout the week. As high pressure expands westward from the Atlantic and also tries to move south eastward from Canada the…

First two weeks of August looking very damp and cool (at times) in the South East.

Over the last few days data has continued to show a very wet weather pattern (and cooler as well) setting up for the central half of the country to the east/south east. In the image above (1-5 day mid level flow) we see a weakness in between a strong ridge off the west coast and…

August 2017 general outlook

We’re going to take a glance at the data and forecast for August 2017. It’s the last full month of summer and the days are getting ever so slowly shorter. Still we’re going into what some like to call the dog days of summer. To start August it isn’t going to feel very much like…

Weekly Outlook – Comfortable week ahead to start August

I’m sure many have enjoyed the break from mid summer heat and humidity, what a treat! If you are enjoying the almost fall like temperatures in the North East/Great Lakes, the coming week also looks overall cooler than normal and less humid (expect for the typical deep south at times and the south east coast).…