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Record Low Lightning Deaths in 2011; What about 2012?
A horrific weather year. I'm sure that you are aware of how bad 2011 was overall in terms of severe weather, with more than a dozen billi...

Meteorological images of 2011
Previous editions: 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 So I guess that makes this the 6th annual! As I've noted in the introduction the past few ...

The Last Mile - Take One Step
These are two key phrases emanating from the Weather Ready Nation Workshop that I've just attended in Norman, Oklahoma. More than 100 ex...

The Climate Lottery- Ranking Numbers of Boreal Fall 2011
The National Climatic Data Center has finished processing the rankings for Boreal Fall 2011 for the lower 48 states. So, for everyone who...

This Year's Tornadoes Some of the Worst
This is the second in a series of articles that seek to quantify just how bad this year's tornadoes were in a historical context. It was...

Meteorological perfection
INFRARED SATELLITE IMAGE - OCTOBER 30, 1991 Hard to believe it's been 20 years since the Perfect Storm. And, just as it represented a ...

Weather phobias
[This is a repost of an entry which had outdated links. That original entry and reader comments are here.] As is mentioned in my bio, m...

Did a tropical storm hit Florida Sunday night?
IMHO, yes! This blog will provide an explanation of my reasoning. For additional perspective, TWC's Dr. Rick Knabb and Bryan Norcross ...

Climate Dice- The Second Roll
Last September I wrote my first blog entitled "The Climate Dice Are Loaded", which was a piece intended to link the heat of the summer of ...

The costliest just got even costlier
The document titled "The Deadliest, Costliest, and Most Intense United States Tropical Cyclones" is *the* official go-to source for those ...

April 2011 - The Tornado Numbers Are In!
The National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center have now compiled and released the official counts of the actual number of tornad...

A Busy Weather Day for the Final Shuttle Launch
As the crew of the final space shuttle flight prepares to return home early Thursday morning, ground teams at Mission Control in Houston i...

The ridge, heat, humidity, drought, and Dust Bowl
Here come da ridge! [ECMWF model forecast; image source: wright-weather.com] For extremity of summertime ridges of high pressure alof...

A Terrible Tornado Year
*** Note: This blog was updated on June 19 to reflect new data that has come in on the number of EF5 tornadoes and tornado fatalities ***...

The Katrina of tornado outbreaks
Our thoughts at TWC are with those who have been affected by the recent siege of severe weather including twisters, wind/hail damage, and ...

Tornado Outbreaks Then and Now - Apples and Oranges?
Early in my graduate school experience I had the privilege of surveying the damage from many of the April 3-4, 1974 Superoutbreak tornado...

A tornado-producing machine
Tonight at 8pm EDT, TWC will be airing a special program on the recent historic tornado outbreak, called "Twisters: Trail of Destruction."...

Stu's Views on Open Mike
[This is a re-post of an entry originally posted a few months ago, as an outlook update has been issued today. Same thoughts as in Decemb...

Loud Thunder
The thunder at my house in the Atlanta metro area early Monday morning was some of the loudest I've ever heard. My whole house was shakin...

TORCON forecasts made Sat Mar 26
GREG FORBES' Severe Thunderstorm and TORCON FORECASTS - Tornado Conditions Index (scale 0 to 10) Made 11:30 AM Saturday Mar 26; ...

TORCON forecasts made Fri Mar 25
GREG FORBES' Severe Thunderstorm and TORCON FORECASTS - Tornado Conditions Index (scale 0 to 10) Made 12:30 PM Friday Mar 25 Ar...

TORCON forecasts for Wed Mar 23
GREG FORBES' Severe Thunderstorm and TORCON FORECASTS - Tornado Conditions Index (scale 0 to 10) Made 12:30 PM Tuesday Mar 23 A...

TORCON forecasts made Tue Mar 22
GREG FORBES' Severe Thunderstorm and TORCON FORECASTS - Tornado Conditions Index (scale 0 to 10) Made 11:30 AM Monday Mar 22 Ar...

TORCON forecasts made Mon Mar 21
GREG FORBES' Severe Thunderstorm and TORCON FORECASTS - Tornado Conditions Index (scale 0 to 10) Made 4:00 PM Monday Mar 21 Are...

Dispersion - Dilution of Pollution
People in the United States are concerned that radiation being released in Japan will pose a threat to the United States. From everything...

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