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While there may not be a super high risk of severe weather, or at least for tornadoes, through much of this week, we may have near daily risks of severe storms on the Southern and Central Plains. Big hail and…

We’re starting a new series on Tornado Titans, “Weather Satellite 101”. This series aims to teach you everything we know about satellite imagery, which we’ve been using our entire chase career as one of the biggest weather data sources you…

There are going to be a lot of storms around this afternoon and evening, and a couple will likely organize into supercells with the threat of very large hail and perhaps even a tornado this evening. The tornado risk is…

Join me for a field test day of new equipment and a marginal risk of severe storms in New Mexico!

We’ve had a pretty steady string of low-end severe weather setups the last week and that should continue over the next week. We talked about storms being possible near daily with lower-end severe chances last weekend and that pattern looks…

Before I took off for my first chase of the year, I distinctly remember weather models really weren’t giving a ton of confidence that storms would form. In fact, in the infamous TPC (that’s Titan Prediction Center) group chat…we were…

September has been one of our quieter weather months on the Central and Southern Plains most of the time for the last decade. Historically we tend to eek out a decent severe weather day or two this month, but summer…

Eugene Thieszen and myself sat north of Flagstaff for over two hours, waiting patiently for developing storms to finally unleash tons of lightning. I was about to give up hope until, near sunset, the final storms of the day finally…

We are on track to have a major hurricane make landfall somewhere in the Big Bend region of Florida tonight into tomorrow morning. Idalia continues to rapidly intensify and organize as it moves northwards towards the coast today. The track…

Tropical systems in the Atlantic starting with the letter ‘I’ have a real agenda and building reputation on their hands in recent years. Both Ida and Ian have been retired over the past couple of years, and Idalia certainly has…

Many people have a love/hate relationship with the dryline on the Southern and Central Plains — UNDERSTANDABLE! This unique boundary is what touches off many/most of the most major tornado outbreaks in that part of the region, and up until…

By the time you are reading this, we very well might have a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico. This storm will make landfall somewhere in South Texas it looks, with sustained winds in the 45-55mph range and torrential…