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We’re Transitioning Through A Quiet Pattern
After last week’s very active run, this week promises to be much tamer through at least Thursday before we start considering the possibility of severe weather again by the weekend….

Huge Risk Area for Severe Weather Today
During the early Spring and Fall, you can get some really wildly huge severe weather risk areas. Today we have a risk stretching from north of Fargo, North Dakota to…

Panhandle Flying Saucer Structure (May 3, 2023)
The best part of living in Albuquerque for storm chasing is getting the random marginal risk storm chases on your way out to your main target the next day. These…

Severe Storms Possible Today in OK/TX
Today might be the most robust severe weather threat of the week, with a supercell or two possible somewhere from central Oklahoma back south and west into western north Texas….

We Will Have Many Severe Risks This Week
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…

Weather Satellite 101: Discerning Environmental Differences
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…

Supercells Possible Today from W. Kansas to the Panhandles
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…

Marginal Day/Field Test in Eastern NM
Join me for a field test day of new equipment and a marginal risk of severe storms in New Mexico!

Fall Severe Weather Season Stirs to Life
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…

Central Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak! (April 19, 2023)
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…

The Weather is Quiet…A Little Too Quiet
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…

INCREDIBLE Lightning Show North of Flagstaff, AZ!
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…

Idalia On Track to Make Major Landfall Tonight/Tomorrow
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…

Will Idalia continue the I’s rampage?
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…

Drylines 101: The Basic Things You Should Know About These Tornado Hotbeds
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…

The Tropics Come Alive
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…