Today and tomorrow are the spring part, with comfortable temperatures and low dew points. Tuesday is another story as the humidity climbs and the temperatures strain toward the 90 degree level. It seems that yet another cold front will seep into our …

At least one forecast model is calling for some interesting conditions in northern VA late Tuesday afternoon. A combination of good instability, wind direction veering from southeast at the surface to south and southwest as you look upwards, and a hin…

After all was said and done yesterday I was a bit miffed at myself for not being patient enough to wait out the storms in the original intercept spot I’d selected in southeastern Fauquier county. I knew the line was building just east of the Blue Ridg…

Bad melodrama, but a good description of today’s weather. A line of storms plowed thru the vicinity mid-afternoon, dumping heavy rain and at dropping at least one funnel cloud that I witnessed from southern KG county. The conditions that created the …

So go figure…I spent all sorts of time and money on a chase trip to Tornado Alley without seeing a funnel cloud, and I go on a last-minute ho-hum so-what chase in my figurative backyard and see one on a day when little or no severe weather was foreca…

We can’t seem to catch a break this spring from the #$%#$$%&($*% cold air damming wedge that keeps setting up on top of us. It has been a bit unusual this May having cold fronts stall out in our vicinity, since they are usually zipping through and…

Powerflash!Okay, I am beating a dead horse…I admit it. After some more thought I decided to investigate the 13 May power flash we videoed to see if it was realistic to assume that was from the tornado that hit Anadarko OK that night. Per the map ab…

Current radar shows a healthy convective line headed generally in our direction. If it holds together and gets close enough I may scoot out to observe, especially if there’s any lightning involved.Meanwhile I’m feeling empathetic toward both the Vorte…

Even though the chance of decent storms today was slim I gave in to the temptation to head west early this afternoon as a few updrafts hovered near the Blue Ridge. By the time I got to Culpeper these had fizzled dramatically and I was left with a deci…

This is another look at the downed powerpoles we came upon during our Texas panhandle chase. One pole had snapped off during the strong outflows from the storms we were watching, thus dragging down a series of successive poles and shutting down power …