That' dark area in the sea of reds and golds is convection. Visible in many ways, but kind of fun to use an out of the box method here in Mid April. The Caribbean is coming alive........day by day. Not ready for prime time yet....  Winds aloft blowing, flowing SW to NE Not conducive for development. And yet it hangs in there. Stubbornly! Huge sprawling Low.... ...taking up the whole NE Atlantic. Frontal boundaries moving along still. Not there yet... still Spring. This picture shows many things. West to East. New front moving East across USA/Canada Sturbborn convection in ..read more

 On June 12th, 1994 the world was rocked with a news story that went on to dominate the news cycle for the following year. It's a date and a time many will not forget. OJ Simpson a much beloved football player that broke many records in college and won the Heisman Trophy in 1968 for his incredible run at USC in the heart of LA was suddenly the suspect in his wife Nicole Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman's death! OJ went on after college to fame playing for the Buffalo Bills and infact had become quite the football hero, to many, as well as a public figure who had acted and was popular o ..read more

You can find these radars live on Mike's Weather Page I-95 in GA and Carolinas gonna be messy today Coastal storms on the beach if you like wild weather. Fronts still moving down........ ...often spin up early season named storms in May. Something to think on..... Let's start here.......... ...from far away and wide view. You can see what we're watching today. Chasing, tracking, discussing. Let's go in closer A stream of moisture is zooming up from the Yuke Crashing head on with a strong spinning Low. Tornadoes, Flooding, Spring Storms. Note the triangular appearance on this image ..read more

  Of course what gets into Alabama... edges into Florida Panhandle and Georgia . This is a textbook "bow echo" pushing East. Particularly Dangerous Situation there. In motion you can see the need to push East.. Bow Echo....developing in real time. Tornado, Hail, Severe Weather and Flooding All concerns today. Easy to follow the radars....... ...on Mike's Weather Page www.spaghettimodels.com And you can watch Reed chase... ...that's what I'm doing. While doing other things this morning! Ps...of course TWC is live... As cells move from Hammond to Picayune! Stay tuned ..read more

  Not Your Momma's Eclipse Blog Pic! My brother sent me this picture of the partial eclipse in Florida, it's an awesome picture and of all the pics I saw of the eclipse it's one of the best I've seen. And, it brings up the question if you saw the eclipse but it wasn't a total eclipse and you didn't see the diamond on the side or the full blown Corona effect did you still really see the 2024 Eclipse?? Obviously this is THE OMG Corona pic ppl post.... Total Eclipse of the Sun. Very cool. Saw it once, truly awesome. But if a tree falls in the forest question.... ...answer is the tree ..read more

The subject of the day is The Eclipse that crosses theUSA, totality going from Texas to Niagra Falls. Remember there is an eclipse path that crosses most of the East Coast in varying stages but not everyone gets totality!  This image is supposed to be 2017 but who knows, they mostly look the same. Lunar Eclipses often are colored differently and sometimes in Miami we get a Red Lunar Eclipse due to Saharan Dust in the atmosphere. So let's look at these eclipses and past hurricane seasons. Many people ask if there is some correlation and I think that often is in the eye of the beholder, s ..read more

  ' Monday's weather..... Iffy who gets a good view. All about the timing of the storms.... New England looks good! Upstate New York... Will there be an aftershock during an the eclipse? What to talk about?  Hurricane Season 2024 or The Eclipse? It's that time of year I can almost smell the hurricane season in the wind in my head, but it was 43 degrees this morning in Raleigh and the only thing in the wind here is pollen. Lots of pollen blowing in the wind... I'm a Hurricane History person and my main curiosity is analog years always. This will be discussed in more depth as we ge ..read more

Woke up to rain. Heavy Rain now... I put on TWC old school style :) Pouring outside now. Jim doing weather.... ...TWC talking on The Solar Eclipse! They will be chasing it... Today is a Weather Day in Raleigh! Woke up way too early and smiled as the rain was moving in. That will wash off a lot of the pollen that landed all over everything after a record breaking pollen day in Raleigh! And, I like rain, I like wind and some storms should roll through later today. Then the daily high temperatures leave summer like 87 degrees and get back down into the 50s and 60s the way I like them. Yes I ..read more

Weather Pattern still Frontal.... West to East Still crazy after all these years! CSU will release its first forecast for 2024 on Thursday, April 4 at 10am EDT. This is going to be a fairly short blog today. April 1st, no this is not an April Fool's Day joke. This week another storm system due  EURO Wednesday. Winter isn't done with us yet....... ....even tho it feels like Summer today. They changed the high in Raleigh tomorrow to an obscene 87 degrees and they have taken out strong rain chances that were in there yesterday for later this week. Current forecasts for certai ..read more

  What can we learn from the Bridge Collapse in Baltimore and what are the commonalities to Hurricane Disasters? There are many things to learn and one is an awareness of what happens when a Major Port, the 9th largest in the US (according to shipping/money/value not size) suddenly is dead in the water unable to ship out the cargo now in port - unable to leave the port and more so unable to receive cargo. In addition, Baltimore specialized in roll on/roll off cargo and the loss of that port for however long it will take to open it again impacts the people who work at the port daily, the ..read more