In The Vortex

Category: Extreme Weather

All things Extreme Weather!

  • Southern Plains Late March Winter Storm

    Yet another major winter storm has taken aim on the lower end of the Great Plains this weekend, hopefully this will be our last one and spring will fully kick in!

    This one is promising some impressive snow totals, as much as 8″ in Oklahoma, perhaps even more!  This could be crippling for the Oklahoma City metro area.

    Already Winter Storm Watches and Warnings as well as Winter Storm Advisories are up across all of Northwest Texas, the eastern half of New Mexico, and most of Oklahoma and Kansas!

    Light snow is already falling in some locations and blizzard conditions will exist in some places.  Some locations will most likely set new records for total winter snowfall during this event!

    Below are images from the National Weather Service Forecast Offices in Lubbock and Amarillo, TX as well as Norman, OK depicting the current forecast totals.

    Now is the time to take your winter weather preparations and safety precautions.

  • Storm Chaser Tim Samaras on Tornado Probes and Lightning

    One of the people I interviewed at the 2010 National Storm Chaser Convention was storm chaser Tim Samaras from Colorado.  Some of you might remember him from Season 3 of the Discovery Channel show, Storm Chasers.  Tim has actually been around chasing storms for quite a while. I’ve known Tim I guess since about 2002 or so when I began helping them with the convention promotion on the Internet. Tim along with Roger Hill of course, helps organize the convention each year.  Tim is one of the busiest guys I know in storm chasing and always has a bunch of cool projects going on.  In this video interview, he talks candidly about some of them!