Meanwhile back home ... it's dryPosted May28, 2006 at 01:30 PMAdjusting to everyday life back home again after the daily energy and motion of a storm chase trip is difficult. We returned to Southwest Virginia Friday night after an amazingly succesful storm chase trip that defied one of the least conducive May weather patterns for severe weather in recent memory. We drove long hours and clawed and fought for some interesting storms, and the good attitude and enthusiasm of everyone on board was priceless. Our best catch was in Illinois ... but we also scored some interesting storms in North Carolina (click here and here), South Dakota and Wisconsin. The tornado count, as is often the case, is murky ... could be anywhere from zero to 5. I'll have more about that in the future, along with some other photos/video as we dig into what we captured. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, it's been plenty dry here. We've had about half of our normal May rainfall to date, and Roanoke Regional Airport is running nearly 8 inches below normal in precipitation. The lack of severe weather in the Plains states and the dryness here are related to the same progression of weather patterns that resulted in the Gulf of Mexico being scoured clean of deeply moist air at mid-month. It's having a hard time recovering. It may take something tropical to turn our rainfall fortunes around. Hurricane season officially begins Thursday. |
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Kevin Myatt works on the copy desk for The Roanoke Times and is its principal weather geek, writing a weekly weather column and advising the newsroom on weather topics. He helps guide students on a storm chasing trip to the central U.S. each May and was an editor for "Hurricanes and the Middle Atlantic States." .....Advertisement.....
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