insert_link Weather Nerd 2022 Ocean Changes signal a return to El Nino by Summer If you look closely at ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation) regions, you can nicely see the developing cold “waveforms”, as the pressure patterns are creating strong easterly surface trade winds. These drive the wind-driven ocean surface cooling, and peak cold anomalies are now focused more towards the eastern regions. Since early October of 2021, there has been a temperature anomaly in the ENSO 3.4 region that reveals a stronger cooling […] todayMarch 9, 2022
insert_link Weather Nerd How ENSO is going to affect the 2022 Tornado Season As history shows, La Nina can have an important influence on the Spring tornado season in the United States. And usually not in a good way. It is also partially responsible for the winter-time tornado outbreaks across the United States. From the top 5 most active tornado years, 4 were actually La Nina seasons. At least during the main spring part, when there are most tornadoes and the ENSO still […] todayMarch 8, 2022
insert_link Weather Nerd Massive Wildfires in Drought-Ridden Florida Panhandle force Thousands to Flee Wildfires in Florida forced the evacuation of more than 1,000 homes on Sunday, including veterans in a nursing home. The Bertha Swamp Road fire engulfed 9,000 acres, while the Adkins Avenue fire covered just over 840 acres. Combined, the blazes have forced the evacuations of at least 1,100 homes in Florida's Bay County, according to The Associated Press (AP). As of Sunday, the Bertha Swamp Road fire was 10 percent contained and […] todayMarch 7, 2022
insert_link Weather Nerd “Big Changes Happening Fast” with Antartica’s Thwaites Glacier One thing that’s hard to grasp about the climate crisis is that big changes can happen fast. Sometimes, in a matter of 48 hours or so, a mélange of ice about 21 miles wide and 15 miles deep can crack up and scattered into the sea. As a matter of fact, it already has - last year, as a matter of fact. The Thwaites glacier in western Antarctica is the […] todayMarch 3, 2022
insert_link Weather Nerd What’s the difference between Upslope and Downslope Winds? Imagine water flowing through a stream and it encounters a rock jutting upwards. A lot of times you’ll notice the water will flow up and over the rock to the other side. Now picture this on a much bigger scale with a mountain playing as the rock and swapping the atmosphere for the stream. You’ll get a very similar effect but there are some important differences when you look at […] todayMarch 2, 2022
insert_link Weather Nerd The 2021 Atlantic Hurricane Season was a Wild One, so What’s in Store for 2022? If you thought that there seemed to be a crazy number of hurricanes last year, you weren't imagining things. The 2021 Atlantic hurricane season generated an extraordinary twenty-one named storms. That's the third highest on record! Last year brought in seven hurricanes, four major hurricanes, and an Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) of 145. Those numbers compare with the averages from 1991 to 2020 for a season of 14.4 named storms, […] todayMarch 1, 2022
insert_link Weather Nerd Winter Weather Driving Safety Tips It’s that time of year when temperatures drop to near or below the freezing mark, and snow becomes more frequent across the U.S. On average, weather-related vehicle crashes kill more than 6,200 people and injure more than 480,000 per year across the nation. To make sure you get to your destination safely, here are some winter driving safety tips, courtesy AAA and the National Weather Service (NWS): Driving in the […] todayFebruary 28, 2022
insert_link Weather Nerd Where do you get your Weather News? Here are viewer’s Weather Website favorites! If you're a weather junkie, the first thing you do in the morning is turn on the news to get the weather forecast. But which channel? Or, which website? Most weather nerds will have a favorite, the most "trusted" source, the one who "always gets it right." Weather sites these days deliver much more than just the high and low temperatures and whether you need an umbrella or gloves. They […] todayFebruary 25, 2022
insert_link Weather Nerd It’s Getting Hot in Here: 2021 gave North America its most extreme Heat Wave in World History Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin than in the historic late-June 2021 heat wave in western North America. The intense heat wave was the second-deadliest weather disaster of the year, with 1,037 deaths: 808 in western Canada and 229 in the northwestern U.S. The only deadlier weather disaster of 2021 was summer monsoon flooding in […] todayFebruary 24, 2022
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