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23 April 2010

Update: Deadly Tornado Outbreak More Likley Now

A deadly weekend tornado outbreak is becoming more likely this evening. Conditions are coming together for potentially violent long track tornadoes across much of Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday. Tennessee, Arkansas and Louisiana are also threatened. It is quite possible conditions may reach the threshold for a rare High Risk outlook from the Storm Prediction Center (NOAA) in Norman. Several of the tornado watches tomorrow will be PDS watches. (Particularly …

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Deadly Tornado Outbreak This Weekend??

It may sound crass and I do not mean it to be that way, but there are likely to be deaths from tornadoes in the next 48 hours. If only we could only say exactly where! What we can say is that conditions are coming together to make the development of a few strong tornadoes and they will likely be in Mississippi and Alabama on Saturday. Here in Alabama there …

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22 April 2010

The Photo That Started it All!

It is one of the most famous photos of all time. On Christmas Eve 1968 the crew of Apollo 8 reached the Moon for the first time. As they came around the back side they snapped the Earth rising over the lunar surface. For the first time in history the people of Earth saw just how fragile their home in the cosmos was. How alone we are in the vastness …

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21 April 2010

The Baghdad 7 Day

Earlier this week I received an email from local Huntsville Police officer Michael Nelson. Here it is: Good morning I am Michael Nelson, I am a Police Officer with the City of Huntsville, and have been deployed to Iraq with the National Guard. One of my jobs here in Iraq is to report to my commander with the weather here from the Staff Weather Office. Unfortunately, their forecasts here don’t …

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20 April 2010

The Ash Is Thinning!

Great news for air travelers this evening. The eruption in Iceland is now putting out much less ash and the cloud is much lower. The low level ash is not headed toward the UK as the image above shows. The snow-cap that covered the volcano has melted away. This has reduced the steam/ash combination that was climbing to over 3,000 meters. Even more good news tonight. The upper level and …

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19 April 2010

Gorgeous NASA Shot of Iceland Ash Cloud- Heathrow Reopening?? (Updated 0230GMT)

There is actually some good news tonight. The ash cloud over Europe has diminished and begun to sink south of Paris and London. Here is the outlook for tomorrow regarding the no go areas. Late word tonight that the eruption has picked back up. The current wind flow will steer the new ash cloud toward the UK, Central England in particular. So the openings of the airports tomorrow may be …

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18 April 2010

Iceland Volcano Quieting Down??

The weather radar at the Keflivik Airport is not seeing a plume from the ash cloud this evening. The last report from the UK Met. Office is a plume height of 16,000 feet. This is much lower than over much of the last 72 hours. There is also good news on the flight restrictions. The lower levels are looking much better. It looks possible that flights could operate from Paris …

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17 April 2010

Ash Getting Worse! Flights Grounded Through Saturday

The UK has now grounded aircraft through 1AM GMT Sunday. The ash cloud has gotten worse and there is a new plume headed toward Europe as the image above indicates. Meteorologists from the Iceland Met Office flew o Friday near the volcano to check the height of the ash cloud and reported it is nearly 30,000 feet (10,000 meters). The upper level winds at this level will steer the ash …

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16 April 2010

More Ash Headed for Europe? Probably (Updated)

The Iceland volcano that has shut down the air traffic over much of Europe sent ash clouds high again today and the news is not good. The upper level winds are likely to continue to blow the ash toward the UK and Northern Europe. Most of the ash is in a layer from 20,000 to 35,000 feet. Since most aircraft fly around 35,000 feet across the Atlantic, it is impacting …

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15 April 2010

Global Temps in March- Warmest on Record.

The National Climate Data Center and NASA released the March global temps. today. March was the warmest on record. The Jan.-March period was the 4th warmest on record. The amazing warmth in Northern Canada and Greenland continues from last month.

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