Getting Set for a Backyard Chase
Last night’s bow echo certainly didn’t disappoint. I first spotted it in Wisconsin when it was a supercell putting down tornadoes near Milwaukee and thought, “That sucker is headed straight at us.” I...
View ArticleTroughy Weather for Next Week
Here on the back end of a 996 mb low, dry Canadian air has dropped the moisture along with the heat in Caledonia, Michigan. We’re presently socked in with clouds, and temperatures are supposed to peak...
View ArticleNo Second Season? Please Say It Ain’t So!
I’d been looking forward to the shift in weather with fall’s arrival, but now that autumn is officially here, I dunno, boys and girls. I’m beginning to suspect that the mythical “second season” may...
View ArticleJamming with the Guys
As the fall season progresses and the flow du jour remains northwesterly, I’m glad I’ve got music to keep me occupied. Ridging may be a storm chaser’s nightmare, but here in Michigan it’s a color...
View ArticleSandhill Cranes
[See image gallery at stormhorn.com] The GFS continues to show hopeless ridging throughout most of October. I hardly pay any attention to the long-range forecast models these days, just mention this...
View ArticleFirst Day of Meteorological Winter
Some of you will greet the news with glee, others with a groan, but either way, today is the first day of meteorological winter. Right, we’ve still got another three weeks before the winter solstice,...
View ArticleSax at the Park
Yesterday was gorgeous though a bit chilly–what can you expect in Michigan in mid-March, after all?–and I was anxious to put my new camcorder through its paces. So off to Fallasburg Park I went....
View ArticleHere Comes the Heat
The ridge that is setting up over the central and eastern CONUS looks like it’s intent on sticking around for a while. The GFS and Euro differ in the details, with the Euro painting a more meridional...
View ArticleWorst of the Michigan Heat Wave
This has got to be the crest of the heat wave that is assaulting the nation, at least as far as the western Great Lakes is concerned. Here at my apartment in Caledonia, Michigan, I just took a read...
View ArticleStormhorn.com Returns: A Modest But Happy Summary of The Year’s Storm Chases
Wow! More than a year has passed since I’ve posted in this blog. So much has happened, some of which amounts to a veritable sea change in my life. But I’m not going to get into that here. Relevant for...
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