by Jason Cooley | August 9, 2017 7:21 pm | Texas Weather
Hello everybody and happy #WeatherWednesday! Last week we discussed the concept of the monsoon. Today we will talk about a type of storm called a “derecho”. The word is Spanish for straight and it has to do with straight line winds! A derecho isn’t...
by Jason Cooley | July 24, 2017 10:49 pm | Texas Weather
Happy #WeatherWednesday everyone! I hope the lesson on RFD cleared up any confusion you had about its meaning! We will return to talking about supercell characteristics at a later time. With the recent weather business going on in the southwest USA, I would like to...
by Jason Cooley | July 11, 2017 11:38 pm | Educational Content, Texas Weather
Hello and happy #WeatherWednesday everyone! I hope you found the last write-up about atmospheric instability and stability useful and interesting. To change things up we will switch to a mesoscale meteorology lesson today. We are going to discuss what the term...
by Jason Cooley | July 10, 2017 10:57 pm | Educational Content, Texas Weather
Happy #WeatherWednesday guys and gals! Have you always wondered what the meteorologists on TV or weather websites really mean when they say the atmosphere is stable or unstable? We will discuss what that means and how “the cap” or “CAPE” relate...
by Jason Cooley | July 5, 2017 12:18 pm | Texas Weather
Happy #WeatherWednesday everyone! I hope you liked the astronomy infused refresher lesson on solstices in our last discussion. This time we’ll go back to qualitative meteorology today and talk about fog. Fog development and sustenance follow simple thermodynamic...
