National Sky Awareness Week (SAW) 2022 is on the not-too-distant horizon (April 24-30). As always, the week-long celebration of the sky (clouds, optical phenomena, planets, and stars) affords all an opportunity to appreciate sky beauty, to understand sky and weather processes, and to work together to protect the sky as
Read DetailsA line of heavy thunderstorms is currently (8:45 a.m. E.S.T.) approaching southwest Florida. Ahead of this line, several isolated strong storms have developed, some of which have shown signs of becoming severe and/or tornadic. One such storm passed by Cape Coral about an hour ago and is racing rapidly to
Read DetailsEarlier this week, a welcome cold front passed through southwest Florida. Daytime highs and nighttime lows tumbled a bit, while dew points (the measure of atmospheric humidity) fell into the comfortable 60’s. As with most of our early cooler season fronts, the relief from oppressive humidity readings was short-lived. Early
Read DetailsAfter an almost two weak period in which the upper-level wind pattern could best be described as “zonal,” a more active weather pattern is getting ready to kick in. A zonal wind pattern is typified by west-to-east wind flow. This is being replaced by a high amplitude (more northwest and
Read DetailsThe clock was ticking yesterday, figuratively and literally, as I finalized this article. The first Pi Day event had taken place some twelve hours earlier (3:14:15 a.m. on 3/14); the second occurred this past evening. With such a special day in progress, I made sure to get around to do
Read DetailsThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today the completion of a major upgrade of its weather and climate supercomputer capabilities. The two supercomputers involved in this upgrade – called Luna and Surge (and built by IBM and Cray Computing) – are located at computing centers in Reston, VA
Read DetailsCollier County, FL, Naples and surrounding areas are waterlogged! Atop August’s foot of rainfall across the area, another foot has already fallen in some parts of the county so far during September. The area from Pine Ridge Boulevard…To read the entire feature, click here. Originally published 09/26/14
Read DetailsA low-pressure system will be tracking across north Florida later today, Mar. 6, 2014. To the south of the low, southwesterly winds, warmth and humidity will be on the increase. Hence, thunderstorms, some locally severe…To read the entire feature, click here. Originally published 03/06/14
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