VISIT: Meteorological Interpretation Blog

More flooding has occurred over the past weekend, due to a series of storms passing through the Lower Mississippi River Valley and along the Ohio River. Storm totals across the area were in the range of 4-8 inches of liquid precipitation. In the image below, National Weather Service (NWS) – Paducah, Kentucky shows total precipitation values Continue Reading

Within the last few days, extensive flooding has occurred due to heavy precipitation from Texas all the way to Michigan. Just look at the NOAA NWS River Forecast map, that encompasses river gauge data across the CONtinental United States (CONUS) on 23 February 2018. Each of the data points exhibit the magnitude of flooding. Notice Continue Reading

GOES-16 captured some amazing imagery on the development of multiple vortices off the coast of southern California on 5 February 2018: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/templates/loop_directory.asp?data_folder=training/visit/loops/5feb18/&loop_speed_ms=60  

The Pacific Rim, has been quite volatile throughout the years, ranging from volcanic eruptions to earthquakes to tsunami’s, that are produced along the Rim or nearby. Yesterday, 22 January 2018, around noon local time, the Mayon Volcano in the Philippines erupted where fragments of lava, ash and steam ejected into the sky. The volcano is Continue Reading

To kick of the new year, 2018, we start off with a Nor’Easter that has developed over the East Coast and has brought freezing rain, sleet, snow, and high winds to the coastal areas, ranging from northeast Florida, the Carolinas to the New England areas. This particular storm experienced rapid cyclogenesis: a significant decrease in Continue Reading

Due to strong, cold, upper-level low that swept through the southeastern United States last weekend (8-9 December 2017), there were variable snow totals that accumulated from southeastern Louisiana, all the way to the Appalachian Mountains.  Snow totals varied from a trace of snow to 10 inches plus in some areas.  The local NWS-Atlanta, GA, has Continue Reading

Last week, more California wildfires had been initiated northwest of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. Out of the fires that have spurred up in the last week, the Thomas Fire is the largest one. Over 230,000+ acres have been burned by the Thomas Fire, with approximately 15% of fire being contained so far. The cause Continue Reading

More wildfires are ravaging the California landscape again, as hot, dry and windy conditions persist over the west coast. Fires this time, have initiated and developed to the north and northwest of Los Angeles, California. Several fires have been identified and named such as the ‘Thomas’, ‘Creek’ and ‘Rye’ Fires. The Thomas fire started in Continue Reading

Ever since Hurricane Ophelia, it has been rather quiet in the Atlantic Ocean in regards to tropical cyclone activity, but now we have Tropical Storm Rina in the midst. As of early morning, 7 November 2017, Rina is positioned in the central Atlantic Ocean and is projected to move north, then northeast, and is not Continue Reading

Ever since last week, Hurricane Ophelia was meandering in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, not knowing where to go. Ophelia gradually became a tropical storm, then hurricane, as it moved northeastward and past through the Azores. As of this past weekend (14-15 October 2017), Ophelia inched closer and closer to the country of Ireland. Before Ophelia made Continue Reading