Chasing

David Drummond on December 31st, 2009

In what has become known to most as year that has had anything but typical weather, 2009 rounds out the year with nearly 2/3 of the U.S. covered in snow! We seem to be in between two major storm systems, but that didn’t stop a shortwave trough from returning brisk cold air and a snow […]

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David Drummond on April 11th, 2009

I’m not very optimistic about severe weather, particularly tornado chances (SPC has a 5% risk area outlined), especially since current dewpoints are still mostly in the upper 40s in the Permian Basin.  There does appear to be a tongue of elevated moisture at 850mb advecting into the Midland/Odessa area and toward Hobbs, NM.  This is […]

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