Greetings to all and thanks so much for visiting. Across much of the USA severe weather activity has kept pace with the time of the year. May may be drawing to a close, but that doesn’t mean tornado activity will wind down. I’m continuing with your tornado safety information again this week along with a reminder on lightning and flash flood safety. Also, please visit my social media page to check out the Tornado Quest social media platforms. This week I’ve got several thought provoking science reads, the updated weekly US Drought Monitor, and the all important reminder to check your NOAA weather radio. Let’s get started.
- It’s one thing to believe in crazy conspiracy theories. It’s quite another to take the fringe element as a reality and start legislation to prevent it.
- An almost daily display in incompetence is showing it’s careless and nefarious toddler tantrums yet again. This time, a long standing NASA institute is the target.
- This is one of those ideas that no only makes good sense, but has been a long time coming.
- A report on climate in the USA that is, “invaluable to federal, state and local governments, as well as private companies such as insurance firms” is no more. That does not bode well for the USA.
- The Arctic ice is essential to maintaining the earth’s temperature. Loss of that ice spells trouble. Keeping that ice, or even refreezing it may be an exceptionally daunting task.
- Summers around the globe are hot. But, if you think that recent summers have been much hotter than in previous years, you’re not imagining things. Get ready for more of the same, or worse.
- The outlook for the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season has an active season expected. With the ongoing firings of National Weather Service employees deemed “unnecessary” and “insignificant,” this should be of great concern to anyone living in an American hurricane prone region.
- The National Weather Service’s Doppler radar is an irreplaceable tool in the meteorologists day-to-day forecasting and, when the situation arises, a life saving and essential element in the severe storm and tornado warning process. Recent staffing cuts and fringe element conspiracy theories have put the USA’s Doppler radar network, considered the gold standard worldwide, in great peril.
- If you live in a region prone to severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, you need to watch this excellent video presentation from the National Weather Service in Norman, OK on seasonal readiness for severe weather and tornadoes. It goes into extensive detail on many facets of severe weather forecasting that will help many folks increase their appreciation of just how hard the task of a meteorologist is and the lengths they go to in order to make their forecasts easy for the general public to understand.
- Are you interested in weather and would you like to take part in contributing to weather and climate data archives as a citizen scientist? Check out the CoCoRaHS project! Your daily precipitation reports, even when no precipitation has occurred, are part of very important weather data forecasting models and data archives! Every single daily report, even if you get no precipitation, counts and is important!
- Another way you can help with weather reports as a citizen scientist is with the free mPING app! Your reports go directly to the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, OK! Even just a few reports help meteorologists with research…and your one report does count!
- Here’s your weekly reminder to check your NOAA weather radio’s operation and its batteries. NOAA has a comprehensive page on NOAA weather radio…a feature of the National weather Service in the USA that has saved countless lives.
- Here’s the latest update on the US Drought Monitor. Across much of the contiguous USA, drought conditions have improved across much of the east, south, and southern plains. Extreme to exceptional drought conditions continue to persist from Texas west to to southern California. The latest fire weather outlooks can be found at the Storm Prediction Center website where they are updated daily.
SEVERE WEATHER SAFETY
Please note; Much of the preceding information may not be available/updated in the future due to unnecessary firings en masse at NOAA and the National Weather Service.
THUNDERSTORMS, TORNADOES, AND LIGHTNING…NATURES MOST VIOLENT STORMS
TORNADO SAFETY FROM NOAA’S STORM PREDICTION CENTER
THE MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT TORNADOES FROM NOAA’S STORM PREDICTION CENTER
HOW TO BUILD AN EMERGENCY KIT – INFORMATION COURTESY READY.GOV
That’s a wrap for this week! Thanks for stopping by! See you next Saturday!
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