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SPC Outlooks and the Traditional School Year 26 Aug 2013 | 12:58 am
A couple of days ago I wrote about the Oklahoma School Year and Severe Weather. I had several requests to expand that analysis to additional areas. This is a fairly trivial task for determining the me...
Oklahoma School Year and Severe Weather 20 Aug 2013 | 11:00 pm
With the school year either already begun, or about to begin, for much of Oklahoma, I thought I'd write a post about the Oklahoma School Year and severe weather. For these results, I've identified the...
Why Should I Continue As An AMS Member? 12 Aug 2013 | 10:54 pm
Author Update: AMS has now added an editor’s note/disclaimer on the blog post. Earlier today on the American Meteorological Society (AMS; of which I am a member) blog, a post was published that advoc...
Updated Tornado Count Model 8 May 2013 | 11:30 am
Yesterday I published a post that attempted to model tornado counts in a manner that would allow insights into just how rare the current "tornado drought" and recent "tornado surplus" actually are. Th...
Which is More Rare? The Current Tornado Drought or the 2011-2012 Tornado Surplus? 8 May 2013 | 01:28 am
Anyone who is interested in severe convective weather is probably aware of the current tornado drought. For those who are unaware, this refers to the 12-months from May 2012 through April 2013 having ...
Acknowledgements 6 May 2013 | 03:05 am
Below is the acknowledgements section of my dissertation…which is scheduled to be deposited tomorrow afternoon at 1PM. The journey is coming to a close… “We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders o...
A Fork In the Road 1 Mar 2013 | 01:18 pm
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go So make the best of this test, and don’t ask why It’s not a question, but a lesson learned in ti...
Population Affected by Tornadoes and Tornado Warnings 20 Feb 2013 | 06:08 am
I have been curious as to the number of people warned for tornado warnings during the Storm Based Warning Era for awhile. Today I needed a mental break from my dissertation so I spent 20 minutes and c...
Radar Animation of A Heavy Snow Band 12 Feb 2013 | 03:22 am
Anyone who looked at radar animation of this past weekend's nor'easter would have quickly noticed an intense precipitation band that stretched from Long Island northward into Connecticut. This band, a...
The End of an Era… 10 Feb 2013 | 04:12 am
For the last 3 years I have been using the WordPress blogging platform to run my website. Unfortunately, as my website has grown over the course of the past three years, so has the time it takes to lo...
