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Henry Margusity on the storms, patterns, and forecasts behind the madness. Subscribers read every post two days before it lands here.
How Much Snow will Fall Across the Northeast Today? High Snow Rates and Thundersnow!
Heavy snow will fall across parts of the Northeast today. The higher locations will see the most snow with over 8 inches in some locations. Snow rates will be 1-2 inches per hour with perhaps some thundersnows mixed in. The storm will intensify today with winds picking up over eastern New England and Cape Cod. […]
Hail and Gusty Storms in the Dry Slot
The dry slot of the storm over the Midwest will open up today and allow for heating and thunderstorms to develop from PA into VA. The storms that do develop have the potential to produce small hail and gusty winds. Winds may gust over 40 mph with any thunderstorm and hail can be over nickle […]
Major Severe Weather Outbreak Today into Saturday. Hundreds of Wind Reports Predicted!
Now that we are moving into April, the severe weather season will really get going. Today as complex severe weather event will occur from Oklahoma to Alabama with several areas of severe weather and tornadoes occurring at the same time. We will see tornadoes across Alabama today with a high wind event coming through overnight. […]
Severe Hail and Perhaps a Tornado Virginia and North Carolina Today
A Stalled front across Virginia into North Carolina will be the focal point for thunderstorms to develop along this afternoon. Some of the storms will become severe producing large, damaging hail and gusty winds. A brief tornado is possible, especially over the western parts of Virginia. The storms will occur this afternoon as temperatures rise […]
Active Severe Weather across the South Saturday…Flooding and Tornadoes Possible
A storm will develop across the South this weekend. Severe weather will break out late Friday and continue into Saturday evening. Compared to the event Today, this event wlll be far more active with the potential for tornadoes and flooding rains. Storms will develop along the warm front first late Friday and expand into to […]
Severe Weather Starts in the Plains and Heads to the Tennessee Valley
A storm coming out of the Rockies will first produce a few severe storms across Minnesota today then more widespread severe storms will develop in Kansas Tuesday and spread east Wednesday and Thursday. I think in this case the primary threats will be damaging winds and large hail. One could say based on the rotation […]
Snowfall Yesterday and Cold Weather Today…Nice Start to April!
The late season cold weather lead to snow and snow showers across the Northeast and Appalachians Thursday. From an operational computer model perspective, the area of snow was correct but the amount of snow was overdone on all the models. It seemed the NAM model did catch on to the lack of snow yesterday morning […]
Flooding and Heavy Storms Tennessee Valley to the Carolina’s
A cold front coming through the Tennessee Valley into the Carolina’s will produce heavy rains across the Tennessee Valley tonight into Wednesday morning followed by heavy thunderstorms across the Carolina’s Wednesday. The rains will produce flooding again across the Tennessee Valley tonight, especially in areas that were hit by flooding this weekend. The storms in […]
Flooding Rains May Return to the Tennessee Valley
After having very heavy rains and flooding this weekend, the Tennessee Valley could be hit again with another round of heavy rains Wednesday. Heavy thunderstorms are expected to develop ahead of a cold front and with the storms training over the same area again, this could lead to locally 1-4 inches of rain. Areas of […]