Geography 341 (Weather & Society) Blog

Monday, April 30, 2018 Temperature: 81 ºF Sky: Cloud Cover Moderate Precipitation: None Wind: N 4 mph It feels like yesterday that we were hunkering down for the late winter storm of the decade, but today we are blessed with perfect summer weather. April, while not exactly holding to its history of showers, has decided to give on last parting gift. It looks like May not be so nice! Check out the mess headed for us! Hints of a stationary front with low pressure systems on either side and it looks as though it is tracking straight for us. Tonight and tomorrow should offer our first glimpse at thunderstorms and possibly severe ones. Our high pressure systems of last week are long gone and finally things are going to get interesting. Look at the size of this system reach as far south as the border with Mexico and north into Canada. Take a look at the surface wind activity below. Pretty stark frontal line and you can see why this storm could get nasty. The moisture from the Gulf of...

Happy Earth Day all! Today Mother Nature has given us a hint of spring after last weekends walloping. Temperature: 61 ºF Sky: Cloud Cover 0%. Beautiful blue sky Precipitation: None Wind: SSE 7 mph Our friendly High Pressure system made its way through in the past few days and has left us with sun and lots of it! Looking at the map, you can see our neighbors in the south are not having quite the same Earth day as we are. They are being pounded with rain and thunderstorms to the point of possible flash flooding in the deep south. This is due to the moisture that the Gulf of Mexico provides and the colliding of the warm and cold fronts with the low pressure system. For today back at home, I would expect more of the same. Warm temps with lots of sun. Today should remain as it is now (1:00pm). Tomorrow I expect similar to today. Sunny and warm again with the chance of a cool off later in the week as the cold front in the Western Great Plains makes its way to us, drawing that co...