Tag: scwx

at 2:14 PM by Pierce Larkin

Southeastern Winter Storm Summary

As we all know, a snow event impacted the region on Thursday afternoon and into the evening hours, causing major traffic issues across the region. This was associated with the system before the main event to our south. A shortwave trough had been forecast for several days to propagate southeastward out of the northwestern US […]

at 12:12 PM by Pierce Larkin

WxOrNotBG Tweets of the Week

Twitter is a meteorologist’s best friend and worst enemy. Meteorologists send out hundreds of tweets per day, and it is such a useful tool for dispensing information. Many times, though, hype will begin and spread like fire on Twitter. Other times, it saves someone’s life. Therefore, Twitter sees the best and worst out of meteorologists […]

at 8:08 AM by Pierce Larkin

Tropical Storm Julia Forms…Inland?

For the past, oh say, week or so, we have been tracking a system traversing across the Atlantic referred to as “93L” by the National Hurricane Center (NHC). As it propagated eastward, it looked fairly terrible the majority of the way. It was disorganized and just kinda an amorphous blob. I citizens x’d this yesterday. […]

at 1:13 PM by Pierce Larkin

Hurricane Hermine Takes aim at Florida

Yesterday morning, Tropical Storm Hermine was born in the southern Gulf of Mexico as what looked like a big blob of convection. She has been classified as a tropical system, with an organized surface circulation, since Sunday morning; however, it took her a while to get the name “Hermine”. Early in her life she came […]

at 4:16 PM by Pierce Larkin

Stop What You’re Doing and Check out This Waterspout

In only the second coolest thing I have seen all week (the first was the Phoenix microburst), twin waterspouts formed off of the coast of Hilton Head, South Carolina this morning. Waterspouts this morning at Hilton Head SC… photo from Nicole Smith pic.twitter.com/urxay9pHtC — James Spann (@spann) July 21, 2016 These formed underneath of a […]

at 8:08 AM by Pierce Larkin

Tropical Storm Colin Forms Over The Weekend

Over the weekend, Tropical Storm Colin formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico. He was named yesterday afternoon, and became the earliest “C” named storm on record in the Atlantic. Much of the model guidance had been showing a system forming in the southern Gulf, and heading for the coast of Florida as we headed […]

at 11:11 AM by Pierce Larkin

Tropical Depression Two Forms Over The Atlantic

Yesterday afternoon, Tropical Depression Two formed off the coast of the Carolinas in the Atlantic ocean. The system was fairly weak, and still is. It currently has winds of 35 mph and 1009 mb, but is expected to strengthen into a Tropical Storm later today. When I saw that this was Tropical Depression Two, I was […]

at 12:12 PM by Pierce Larkin

Bowling Green’s 1000 Year Flood Numbers

Over the weekend, many of you saw the flooding and resulting devastation across South Carolina from the incredible amount of rainfall they had. A trough of low pressure dug deep into the southeastern US, and caught a stream of higher moisture values off of Hurricane Joaquin. This trained over the same areas for hours, and […]

at 8:20 PM by Pierce Larkin

Your Weather Week In Review

Here at WxOrNotBG, we have begun to implement a new post every Sunday evening previewing the week ahead. In light of that, I am going to begin posting a review of the previous week each Saturday night, highlighting the major events that occurred, etc. So, with that being said, here is your *cue awesome music* […]