During 01 May – 02 May 2010 the 2-day total precipitation at Nashville, Tennessee was 13.57 inches — by far the wettest 2-day period on record for that location (the old record was 6.68 inches on 13-14 September 1979, in association with Hurricane Fredrick). With 7.25 inches falling on 02 May (5.57 inches... Read More

Spring convection and associated severe weather returned to the southern Plains on April 22nd. Did predictors of convection do a good job in locating the severe cells?CIMSS has recently started to produce synthetic satellite imagery from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model run at the National Severe Storms Laboratory... Read More

The Winter of 2009/2010 has brought a number of significant snowfall events to parts of the US East Coast — and another powerful storm affected that region on 05 February – 06 February 2010. The highest storm total snowfall reported was 40.0 inches at Colesville in Maryland. Washington Dulles International Airport received 32.4... Read More

AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water (TPW) product (above) showed the presence of  long, narrow  filaments of moisture (often described as “atmospheric rivers“) that were moving across the North Pacific Ocean and the North... Read More