Social Networks were alive all night long, and twitter was actually down for a moment either for maintenance or because it's servers were overloaded. I did not stay up to see the reports but I tried to follow numerous reports by Meteorologists, Public Safety Workers, Skywarn, etc. Up to around 21 tornadoes were spotted overnight and this makes one feel happy that we live were we do and we don't have to wake up in the middle of the night worried about our family and if we need to run to find shelter. Here is an overview by weather.com explaining the many reports that occurred since yesterday. Looking online there is an unconfirmed report of 4 fatalities in Alabama from Tornadoes.
Please open the link below to read the report written by folks at the Weather Channel.
http://www.weather.com/outlook/weather-news/news/articles/january-outbreak-damage-reports_2012-01-23
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Showing posts with label Skywarn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skywarn. Show all posts
Monday, January 23, 2012
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Skywarn
There is a volunteer group of storm spotters, trained to document specific information that is vital for Meteorologists to study evolving weather events. These weather events may show signs that they could become a severe storm or maybe even a Tornado. These storms need to be identified and documented by trained weather spotters, this way multiple sources of information are sent to the local NWS office. These storm reports are called in to the National Weather service, where Meteorologists combines these reports with doppler radar data.
Skywarn started in the 70's as a national volunteer program, that has helped the NWS to provide more accurate and early storm warnings to the general public.
The author, (Me) has completed the basic course and will work to provide reports to the NWS office in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. I will be documenting flooding, storms, storm damage and snowfall amounts.
Skywarn started in the 70's as a national volunteer program, that has helped the NWS to provide more accurate and early storm warnings to the general public.
The author, (Me) has completed the basic course and will work to provide reports to the NWS office in Mt. Holly, New Jersey. I will be documenting flooding, storms, storm damage and snowfall amounts.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Happy Halloween!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!
Besides being Halloween tomorrow, there are several events that have or will occur soon.
On October 28th we saw the successful launch of the NPP Satellite;
Last night we witnessed a historic storm which left us with over 2.5 million people without power in the surrounding area. As mentioned before, there were black ice conditions which led to a fatal accident overnight on I-95. Channel 6 news also reported a few other pileup accidents on other major roads in PA and in NJ. I am actually looking to order a full set of snow tires and wheels, maybe next month myself.
Just a reminder that November 6th is the hour change for Daylight Savings Time, Fall back which to set the clocks one hour back.
Coming up on November 8th, there will be a very large asteroid that will pass by us at a closer distance from us to the Moon. It is called 2005 YU55, which is about the size of an Aircraft carrier! Thank goodness that Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is stating that there should no chance that this asteroid will hit the Earth.
A final note, I have signed up to take a Skywarn class on Tuesday. I will meet up with a class that teaches how to report storms to the National Weather Service. I will volunteer my time and hope to help others by reporting storms.
Besides being Halloween tomorrow, there are several events that have or will occur soon.
On October 28th we saw the successful launch of the NPP Satellite;
Last night we witnessed a historic storm which left us with over 2.5 million people without power in the surrounding area. As mentioned before, there were black ice conditions which led to a fatal accident overnight on I-95. Channel 6 news also reported a few other pileup accidents on other major roads in PA and in NJ. I am actually looking to order a full set of snow tires and wheels, maybe next month myself.
Just a reminder that November 6th is the hour change for Daylight Savings Time, Fall back which to set the clocks one hour back.
Coming up on November 8th, there will be a very large asteroid that will pass by us at a closer distance from us to the Moon. It is called 2005 YU55, which is about the size of an Aircraft carrier! Thank goodness that Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is stating that there should no chance that this asteroid will hit the Earth.
A final note, I have signed up to take a Skywarn class on Tuesday. I will meet up with a class that teaches how to report storms to the National Weather Service. I will volunteer my time and hope to help others by reporting storms.
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