2009.06.02
Back to home-grown severe weather
The Virginia Tech storm chasers returned home early this afternoon, safe and sound after a long trip in which we had to scratch unusually hard to find severe storms in the central U.S. during what is usually the peak of the severe season. But back in Virginia ... a smattering of severe thunderstorm warnings this evening for summerlike pulse and multicell storms firing over the ridges, and even (as of Tuesday evening) a slight risk of severe weather on Wednesday from the Storm Prediction Center.
I'll have a little more to share about our trip, after some needed rest. Dorothy was right: "There is no place like home."
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Welcome back. I see there was a tornado watch in Texas today, right after you left the great plains. Murphy's Law. While the severe weather "drought" seems to be ending in the plains, we have more weird stuff like a west coast storm into California in the summer, and extensive frost and freezes in ND, MN and WI tonight. When do you see normal June weather returning to the USA, or should we just never use the words normal and weather in the same sentence?
Comment by Rick — June 2, 2009 @ 11:08 pm