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Arctic Oscillation Suggests Mild Bias Into April – Will Coronavirus Fade with Summer Heat?
Anxious For Some Good News? Perfect Weather At this rate I may never come out of the bathroom. Crowds? High-fives with strangers? No thanks. Maybe a solitary walk by the lake. Or mowing around the piles of dirty snow in my yard, whistling a happy tune from a bygone...
Is Tornado Alley Shifting South and East? Warmest European Winter on Record
Common Sense Steps to Lower Tornado Risk To live is to grapple with risk. From crossing the street to catching exotic viruses to surviving wild storms. The recent EF-4 tornado that smashed into Nashville after midnight left me wondering what the 2 dozen people who...
Nashville Tornado Swarm Included Extreme EF-4
No Big Storms Helps to Ease Flood Threat What keeps me up at night? Plenty. The specter of a Category 5 hurricane approaching Houston, Miami (or New York City). Rising sea levels sparking a crash in coastal Florida real estate down the road. And huge, deadly, late...
Meteorological Nightmare: EF3+ Tornado Hits Downtown Nashville After Midnight
More Gut Feel Than Science: A Hotter, Drier Warm Season in 2020 Scientists are reticent to talk about instinct or "gut feel", and yet there's something to be said for pattern recognition and going with your "sixth sense". Based on persistence of the current pattern I...
Maps Look Like April – Freakish Winter Warmth for Much of Northern Hemisphere
Spring Fever in a Minnesota March? It may be bad timing to talk about "feeling feverish" but like many of you I have an itch that a scratch won't reach. Spring fever has come early this year. 50F felt amazing Sunday, and ECMWF (European) guidance hints at 60F on...
Positive Phase of “Arctic Oscillation” Keeping Jet Stream Strong – Most of USA Milder
Winter The Way It Was Meant To Be? Minnesota is the Winter Olympics of Cold. We should all get obligatory gold medals. In truth, it's been an average winter with temperatures running above normal since December. We were due for a Siberian smack, and it's here. Two...