Tropical Storm Hermine came ashore near south Texas last night and now the task of figuring out where the heavy rain arc will end up begins! First off, the projected track looks a bit like that taken by the remnants of tropical storm Erin back in August of 2007.  That particular system activated rain over southwest [...]

As tropical storm Hermine moves along the extreme western Gulf of Mexico, the main question for the Ozarks is: will this storm spike our rain totals to the extreme later this week? In light of the extreme rains of Wednesday and Thursday of last week, this question is certainly on the minds of many. The official National [...]

There are three landfall possibilities for “Earl”, the outer banks of North Carolina, Cape Cod and Maine. If Earl interacts with the approaching front and upper low in the right way, Maine may be the best shot at a U.S. landfall although as a much weaker tropical storm verging on extratropical low if it does. [...]

The official record rainfall for Springfield was broken today but that’s not the whole story!  The old record was 2.47″ recorded in 1958. But as the radar estimate map shows and “ground truth” verifies, a large swath of Greene, Christian and Webster Counties had 6-7″ totals with isolated amounts of 8-11 inches!  The areas of [...]

Hurricanes really start to fire up this time of year.  The combination of warm ocean water with still summer-like weaker winds over the tropics makes this the best time for storms to form. Cape Verde storms are very popular during this period and are named for the island cluster over the eastern Atlantic which sees easterly waves [...]

As I recently informed my Introduction to Atmospheric Science students, well developed hurricanes have a feature you might not expect. Everyone focuses (no pun intended) on the eye and eye wall and they should…it is awesome to watch and is the most powerful part of the storm. Hurricanes spin cyclonically or counter-clockwise, a rotation initiated by [...]