Gulf Coast Weather Blog

Over the next century as global temperatures continue to trend warmer, what do these warmer temperatures entail for future snowfall in the decades to come? According to recent computer modeling…

The colder air plunging back into midwestern and northeastern United States through Saturday will pale in comparison to the brutal cold expected to end January as the polar vortex plunges…

America’s only offshore wind farm is the 30-megawatt Block Island Wind Farm, a set of five 600-foot tall wind turbines located about four miles southeast of Block Island, Rhode Island.…

If you haven’t seen a Skew-T chart before, to say they can look a little intimidating is a huge understatement. But with a little practice, you can become a Skew-T…

The northwest flow pattern is expected to persist through the weekend, and the models are in decent agreement that another shortwave trough will push through the region on Saturday. In…

A robust and quick moving storm system will track from the Red River Valley Friday night into the Midsouth by Saturday morning, bringing a cold front across the area early…

The main focus for this portion of the forecast period is on late Friday night through Saturday when a significant frontal system is expected to plow through the Lower Mississippi…

Expect the rainfall to let up a little bit after midnight tonight and through the morning hours on Thursday as the frontal forcing relaxes, though there will still be some…

Wet weather will continue into Thursday as a TX Panhandle upper low tracks eastward toward the area. Ahead of this feature, a departing upper jet max over the Ohio Valley…

As a shortwave lifts from the Southern Plains toward the Great Lakes today, its developing surface low should track from Arkansas toward Indiana. This will bring a cold front through…

As a shortwave lifts from the Southern Plains toward the Great Lakes on Monday, an attendant surface low should track from across eastern Arkansas toward Indiana during the daytime. Due…

A swath of rain and a couple of embedded thunderstorms will continue to push north across the area into this evening. Much of the rainfall amounts with this will be…

The first in a series of strong Pacific storms is impacting parts of the Pacific Northwest this evening, and several more are set to bring similar impacts through the coming…

Thirty plus years of global warming reduction failure In spite of 30 years of warnings by credible scientists and the work of the environmental movement, plus a preponderance of collaborating…

Here’s a look at our main system currently as it moves SE just off of Los Angeles. The storm has been quite impactful in California, causing heavy rain and mudslides…

I usually focus on near-term weather threats here, but today with generally quiet weather across the US I want to look a little farther out into the medium-long range to…

Despite pre-season predictions of an average to below-average year, the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season was above average by most measures, with two U.S. hurricanes—Florence and Michael—causing unusually high death tolls…

The main concern will continue to be the potential for severe weather later tonight. There remain a few questions as to how things will develop over the next 12-18 hours.…

An active weather pattern will take shape for the end of the week into early next week. Primary concerns for the Pine Belt in Mississippi are for the threat for…

Michael is currently centered about 360 miles south of Panama City, Florida, and is moving north. (LATEST NEWS: Evacuations Ordered Along Florida Coast) A storm surge warning is in effect…