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While I’m twiddling my chasing thumbs during this very dry spring I at least can look back at prior Mays. This wall cloud is what I watched approaching my location in the Dry Fork area on May 16th 2023.
At the moment there is a potential for severe weather next Thursday as shown in these outlooks:
But given the arid conditions and this year’s tre...
Today’s SPC Day 1 outlook had a very broad Marginal – level 1 of 5 – Risk across Virginia:
Included in this was a 2% chance of tornadoes as a cold front pressed east across the Appalachian Mountains. However, this was highly conditional, i.e. IF the morning convection cleared out early enough then instability (to go along with an abundance of sh...
Given the extended drought and a decided lack of storms I succumbed to the urge to check out an approaching storm complex from a local vantage point. The convective setup wasn’t enticing enough to convince me to go very far, even though a warm/wedge front (typically a source of wind shear) was draped across Virginia:
Moisture has been in scarce supply, and today...