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...
by Jason Cooley | June 21, 2017 12:18 pm | Texas Weather
Happy #WeatherWednesday, weather peeps! It’s the first full day of summer in the Northern Hemisphere! Today’s topic of discussion is an explanation of the solstice. The summer solstice was at 11:24pm CDT (0424 UTC) last night. For our friends in the...
by Jason Cooley | June 14, 2017 1:28 pm | Texas Weather
Happy #WeatherWednesday everyone! Last time we talked about 5/27/1997 as a 20th-year-anniversary special post. Today we get back to a more technical lesson! Radio Detection And Ranging, or “radar” for short, is our primary method of detecting precipitation...
by Jason Cooley | May 31, 2017 12:43 pm | Educational Content, Texas Weather
Happy #WeatherWednesday everyone! Last time we talked about outflow boundaries, which relates to today’s topic. Today we will do a little history lesson and take a look at May 27th, 1997, just a few days over 20 years ago! The photo above reveals what history we...
by Jason Cooley | May 10, 2017 8:20 pm | Educational Content, Texas Weather
Happy #WeatherWednesday everyone! You know what a cold front is, and normally can identify when one has passed. What about an “outflow boundary” passage? What is that? You may have heard the term. In most cases, they aren’t even noticeable to an...
