Hot, dry conditions have made conditions conducive to the development of wildfires in the southwest U.S.
The image above is from late in the day Sunday (Pacific time). At the bottom of the image, the red dot just north of Los Angeles indicates the fire near Mt Wilson. The heavy smoke is drifting into Nevada. Other [...]
There is quite a bit of weather to look at today.
Cooler, less humid air has filtered into a portion of the Mid Atlantic region. A frontal boundary has stalled to the southeast of Maryland and Monday morning temperatures have been in the 60s. A disturbance is moving along that boundary and has pushed clouds over [...]
Danny is still on track to be a nmear miss.
The forecast map for Saturday afternoon shows Danny as a weak tropical storm off the New Jersey coast, headed toward Cape Cod.
Danny is really just a part of the “tropical environment” running out ahead of frontal boundaries coming out of the Midwest. Danny’s biggest impact will [...]
An area of low pressure in the mid levels of the atmosphere is forecast to slide south from Canada into the great lakes region Friday and Saturday. The low will play a major role in steering tropical storm Danny as it approaches the mid Atlantic coast this weekend. Winds coming around the base of the [...]
Tropical Storm Danny is having a tough time developing into a more powerful system.
The midday visible satellite imagery shows that most of the significant thunderstorm activity associated with Danny is east of the storm’s center. Upper winds have interfered to some degree with Danny’s organization and strengthening. Those winds are expected to become less of [...]
What, yesterday, was a tropical wave north of Puerto Rico is now Tropical Storm Danny.
The early afternoon visible satellite image of the storm shows a developing circulation pattern in the lower cloud deck with most of the significant thunderstorm activity in the east half of the storm.
Danny is expected to follow a general track similar [...]
A tropical wave in the Atlantic appears to be becoming more organized and may reach tropical depression or storm strength.
The wave is north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Computer models show the storm becoming better organized and following a path similar to the one Bill took last week. The next name in the [...]
Significant rains and potential flooding have been threatening all day Saturday. As of early evening, the heaviest rains have skipped around the Baltimore area … for the most part. The map above shows the radar rain estimate for Friday and Saturday from the Dover AFB Weather Radar. Most of the significant rain today has [...]
Significant rains and potential flooding have been threatening all day Saturday. As of early evening, the heaviest rains have skipped around the Baltimore area … for the most part.
The map above shows the radar rain estimate for Friday and Saturday from the Dover AFB Weather Radar. Most of the significant rain today has been south [...]
Hurricane Bill continues its’ track off the U.S. coast.Bill is several hundred miles off the Maryland coast with winds clocked at 100mph, a category two storm. Not much strengthening is expected from this point on and the storm should weaken an bit as it approaches the Canadian Maritime Provinces. The black speck at the lower [...]
