Hurricane Andres (above) in the eastern tropical Pacific was on 2 June 2015 joined by Tropical Storm Blanca (below). Blanca was forecast to become a Hurricane later on 2 June as Andres weakens. The circulation of Andres, above, is well-established, with good anti-cyclonic outflow and curved inflow bands. Shear values are... Read More
Historically heavy rains fell over the southern Plains in May of 2015, with numerous stations setting record monthly rainfall marks. For example, Oklahoma City reported 19.48″ of rain in May 2015; the previous record wet month was 14.66″, set in June 1989 (14.52″ of rain fell in May 2013). The... Read More
A tornado was reported near Yuma, CO, (SPC Storm Reports) at 1910 UTC on 27 May 2015. GOES-14 was in SRSO-R scanning mode, and a storm-centered animation of the visible imagery (0.626 µm) is shown above (Warning: the animation above is 270M; click here for an mp4, or view it on YouTube). Note that GOES-14 produces... Read More
GOES-14 0.62 µm visible imagery, above, (here as an mp4, and here as a very large (220+ megabytes) animated gif) shows the development of convection over eastern North Carolina in a region of slight risk according to SPC (below). ==================================================================================Mesoscale Discussion #713 from SPC, below, referenced the Super-Rapid scan imagery:MESOSCALE DISCUSSION 0713 NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN... Read More
