Gabe Garfield (@WxGabe on Twitter) is a research meteorologist for the National Weather Service. In the video below he talks about the May 31, 2013 El Reno tornado the widest tornado …
Back to Part I: Some Like It Cool: The Rise of AC in the South Air conditioning now dominates and our ability to cool our indoor climate may have radically changed Southern culture. …
Southerners love, and I do mean LOVE, air conditioning. When a heatstorm, a term that only became part of the meteorological jargon in the mid-1960s and describes a few days …
Pecans trees are water loving. In 1578 when Spanish explorer Cebeza de Vacas shipwrecked on Galveston Island the local Native Americans befriended him. De Vacas noted that the Native Americans …
Great article at my new favorite blog United States Tornadoes addressing the question on my mind. “Tornadoes don’t happen in mountains.” Have you ever heard this statement? It is a common …
Having grown up smack dab in the middle of Tornado Alley, my wife and I consistently have “Tornado Dreams.” Simply put, they involve being chased by or being inside a …
My scattered, smothered, and covered heart has been intrigued by the idea of the Waffle House Index (WHI) every since I first heard of such a metric. Internet lore is …
