Storm Highway
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Storm Highway covers extreme weather year-round in the Midwest, Great Plains and beyond. I focus primarily on the storm hazard during the winter months and the midwestern severe weather threat throughout the year. Get more information about storm chasing by following this feed.
Storm Highway
1d ago
As covered in my last post, the system that just made its way through the central US had great wind profiles for tornadoes, but was very lacking in enough moisture for the main Great Plains component of the event on Sunday. Another trough is shown following by this weekend by most all medium-range models and model ensemble members ..read more
Storm Highway
1w ago
Meteorological spring 2024 has started out active, with four convective severe storms outings and two big supercell/tornado setups already logged for the year ..read more
Storm Highway
3w ago
It's that time of year again! We've made it through another meteorological winter to the season of green trees and grass, warm air, longer days and most importantly to storm chasers, storms ..read more
Storm Highway
3w ago
February this year was more like a March: I observed lightning on five different days, captured lightning stills three times and saw the first tornado of the year - all within the state of Illinois ..read more
Storm Highway
1M ago
After the first of the year, I've been very busy with numerous winter weather events and trips, making a southern US/south Texas expedition for the third winter in a row. Here's a summary of events covered since September of last year ..read more
Storm Highway
2M ago
From 400 feet in the air, the Gateway Arch and downtown St. Louis appears in the background over New Baden, Illinois from 30 miles away ..read more
Storm Highway
5M ago
Copyright infringement is a continuous assault on the livelihoods of today's content creators (photographers, filmmakers, musicians, writers, artists ..read more
Storm Highway
7M ago
In the United States, including in the Midwest and Great Plains regions, there is another weather phenomenon that kills and injures significantly more people annually than tornadoes ..read more
Storm Highway
7M ago
The purpose of this study is to investigate the hypothesis that atmospheric moisture content (represented by dewpoint temperature) plays a role in whether positive lightning leaders are slow (highly branched) versus fast (branchless) below cloud base ..read more
Storm Highway
7M ago
To be classified as a storm chasing-related death for this data set, the incident must have occurred during the act of storm chasing or when traveling to or from a storm chasing target ..read more