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Making up for lost time

A giant ridge will keep me in the high and dry this week, so I'm using the free time to catch up on errands and other fun. Going to be moving to morning shifts at work soon!

With a three day weekend just one night away, I'm thinking I might actually get around to converting the site over to Wordpress. We'll see how that goes.

The Midwest is Stealing My Storms!

While the Midwest remains quite active in severe weather and MCS activity, the Mid-Atlantic has been struggling to get severe weather over the past week, especially areas east of the Appalachians. Tuesday and Wednesday (but mainly Wednesday) will provide more severe weather opportunities this week, but Thu-Sat is looking warm and dry. On the plus side, the three days of warm, dry weather is what I need to finish my deck! Only been waiting over two months for a prolonged period of hot and dry weather... we have been getting little shots of rain and damp air at least twice a week!

You might be wondering, "What happened to THIS week's What to Watch Fore(cast)?" Well, I worked a little over 60 hours over the past week, including 13 hours from Saturday evening through Sunday morning. I'm tired. Also, other things in life. Taking SVRWX in for repairs tomorrow morning, so hopefully the backup chase vehicle will be 100% in time for storms! The primary chase vehicle, owned by Jason Foster, is in the process of getting significant repairs. At least all this is happening during a lull in the severe weather, otherwise we'd be kicking ourselves.

Neat Images (Warning: Weather Nerd Heavy)

5/22 SFC CAPE values via the SPC Mesoanalysis page (6000+!!!):



5/24 Severe weather watches (You can not escape!):

No Forecast This Week

I'd hate to do it, but life is crazy this week and I haven't had time to update amongst all of it. Nothing too crazy going on this week, anyway, with the exception of a sub-tropical system possible off of the Southeast US coast. Enjoy your week!

In Maryland Now...

Been busy with moving and getting ready for my new job, which starts tonight. I wasn't able to do an in-depth forecast for the Tu/Wed East Coast storm because of this, which was a bit disappointing. Big flakes of snow are starting to fall at the moment here in the D.C. area, but only about 2-4 inches of snow is expected. Parts of New England could see good snow accumulations from this system, and I may make a storm forecast later today. Nothing big is in the works at the moment for severe weather, but I'll keep an eye out for it.

Bah!

Between finding a new place to live and getting called in to work, I haven't been able to update, and that makes me sad. Will try to update tonight.

Verifications on their way...

I've been meaning to get this new computer of mine up and running with image editing software, and I'm finally putting it in today. This will enable me to do a direct overlay of my forecast and the storm reports, amongst other things. Look for verifications for the last two forecasts, as well as detailed explanations later today.

If I get it all in before it's late, I'll even toss in a forecast for the upcoming winter storm that will greatly impact the Great Plains, Midwest and Mid Atlantic, with some boomer potential in the Southeast.