You know you're a meteorologist when...

You know you're a meteorologist when...

1. All your photos on your phone are of clouds, the sky, and or anything that relates to weather... (pictures at the bottom)

2. When you have 3 group me groups that are with your weather friends...

3. When you talk about/ look at weather for more than half your day...

4. When the magazines you read are AMS magazines...

5. When your idol is James Spann...

6. When people follow you on twitter to get daily updates about what the weather will be like that day...

7. When people yell at you across the drill field to tell you they wore that particular outfit today because they read your tweet...

8. When people ask you why the weather is doing what it's doing...

9. When you dream about weather every single night...

10. When people text you during bad weather to ask of a tornado is on the way...

All of these have happened to me and it makes me happy that I am on my way to being an official meteorologist! So close!

This year I'll be using this blog to take you through my final year of college that will lead me to pursuing my first job as a official Broadcast Meteorologist. I will soon be posting videos of myself forecasting and also I will be updating you on the weather in either the Starkville, Mississippi area or the Memphis, Tennessee area.

I am so excited about this year and seeing what God has in store for me. I am going in to this year with my mind open to anything that comes my way. I am willing to go anywhere and to do anything to pursue this career for my life, but it is all in God's hands.

Here we go. :)

April 23, 2012- April 27,2013

Beautiful weather this week for Starkville, Mississippi- temperatures are moderately low though with cold temperatures moving in from the Northern part of Mississippi. We are going to warm up as we head through the week.

These are surface temperatures- and also the winds are shown.  You can see the prevalent wind coming from the North.

On the two day out look the winds change and start heading out of the South. This will bring us warmer temperatures as we head into the rest of the week.  This map is for WEDNESDAY. Wednesday our temperature will be a HIGH of: 82! So a beautiful day in store.

The image below shows moisture content throughout the United States. We are particularly dry today as you step outside you can tell this. Also much cooler. You can tell where that dry air is pushing into our area. There is a pronounced trough sitting over us.

The trough is well shown on the GFS vorticity model below.

The trough is over the North East and a large ridge has set up to our West.  This is allowing for our cooler temperatures and our strong winds throughout Mississippi today.

FORECAST FOR THIS WEEK!!!!

This Afternoon Sunny Hi 65 °F Tonight Clear Lo 40 °F Tuesday Sunny Hi 73 °F Tuesday Night Mostly Clear Lo 52 °F Wednesday Mostly Sunny Hi 82 °F Wednesday Night Partly Cloudy Lo 60 °F Thursday Mostly Sunny Hi 85 °F Thursday Night Partly Cloudy Lo 62 °F Friday Partly Sunny Hi 84 °F

I hope you all go out and enjoy it especially as those temperatures are on the rise!

Weather Forecast for April 11-April 15, 2012

Starkville's Five Day Weather Forecast 

Tonight: high of 47F- possible isolated thunderstorms

Wednesday: high of 70F SUNNY

Wednesday night: low of 40F- clear

Thursday: high of 73F- clear and sunny

Thursday night: low of 49F- clear

Friday: high of 77- some clouds, but mostly sunny

Friday night: low of 53F- partly cloudy

Saturday: high of 79F- MOSTLY SUNNY!!

This week looks like a pretty good set up.  Today I believe will be the most we will see rain and or thunderstorm chances.  As we head into the night the possibility decreases as a high sets up above Mississippi and Tennessee, brining in cooler and drier temperatures throughout the northern part of Mississippi.  The next frontal passage looks like it will come through around Friday, but only to bring us partial clouds.

Weather Forecast for March 23- March 26

Hey everyone. I hope you have been enjoying the rain we've been having.  Haha. Do not worry it will soon be gone.  Right now we are under a system that has been stalling over the United States now for a few days. It is a cut off low that has kept the southern region predominately moist and cooler.  Cooler temperatures are on their way towards us here in Starkville and you can actually feel them right now.  This system will finally push out though, through the night and head Eastward.  Behind us though it looks like a little bit more precipitation on the way, but that should head North bound. Only bringing us clouds and maybe a little bit of rain tomorrow morning/ afternoon. Higher moderate temperatures should be in our future becoming more spring and summer like throughout the region.

Currently this is what the precipitation looks like over our region. Also you can see where the predominate clouds are located.

As you can tell from the image the precipitin is headed to our East as I said and is now lingering over all one Alabama.

As we head into our weekend our temperature are looking wonderful.

Friday:
Possible few scattered showers in the early morning. Clouds will linger and a high of 78F and a nightly low of 51F
Saturday:
The sun will be prevalent with a high of 74F and a nightly low of 51F
Sunday:
Again a beautiful sunny day with a high of 17F and nightly low of 52F

Monday- the beginning of our work week also looks very beautiful with a high of 80F!


Thank you for reading and I will be updating soon! So come on back!

March 6, 2012- March 10,2012

Well I hope everyone had a good weekend. There was a ton of crazy weather around this weekend, for those of you who did not know. There were 128 tornado reports all on Friday. Most of the tornadoes were in the Northern areas, including Ohio of all places.

Here is SPC's data from Friday. http://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/120302_rpts.html

The cold front that came through Friday, brought in much cooler temperatures that we have not really seen throughout the winter months we've had so far.

For your week, it is looking very nice, until we reach Thursday night, when rain and thunderstorms arrive. Definitely not as severe as we've seen.

YOUR FORECAST FOR THIS WEEK:

Tuesday: 67F CLEAR AND SUNNY! :)

Tuesday Night: 45F some clouds start to make their way into our area.

Wednesday: 69F partly sunny.

Wednesday Night: 55F mostly clouds.

Thursday: 74F Slight chance of rain in the afternoon 20% chance.

Thursday Night: 62F Stronger chance of rain.

Friday: 71F also a chance for some rain along with some thunderstorms.

Friday Night: 50F Cloudy with a 40% chance of rain.

Saturday: 67F Cloudy with a 40% chance of rain still. 

Saturday Night: 51F Cloudy with 50% chance of rain.

I hope you all take advantage of this beautiful weather outside! Have a great day and come back for more weather updates!

If you have any suggestions of what you would like me to write about please let me know! Email me at katie.burch7@gmail.com

Historical Facts For Your Entertainment

Thought it would be interesting to give you some history facts about TODAYS (February 26) weather from 1910-2004. Some interesting stuff and interesting trends. 


Ten years ago February 26, 2002 the Weather in Starkville looked much like today high of 68F and a low of 53F.  BELOW is the annual average precip for 2002.

1910 - Parts of Washington State were in the midst of a storm which produced 129 inches of snow at Laconia between the 24th and the 26th, a single storm record for the state. A series of storms, which began on the 23rd, led to a deadly avalanche on the first of March. By late on the 28th, the snow had changed to rain, setting the stage for disaster. (The Weather Channel)

1972 - The Buffalo Creek disaster occurred in the Buffalo Creek Hollow of Logan County in West Virginia. A coal slag dam on the Middle Fork of Buffalo Creek burst sending a fifty foot wall of water down a narrow valley killing 125 persons and causing 51 million dollars damage. Three days of rain atop a six inches snow cover prompted the dam break. (David Ludlum) (The Weather Channel)

1987 - A slow moving storm in the southwestern U.S. spread heavy snow from the southern and central Rockies into the Central High Plains Region. Totals in Colorado ranged up to 62 inches at Purgatory. Colorado Springs CO reported a February record of 14.8 inches of snow in 24 hours. Lander WY received four inches in one hour, 13 inches in seven hours, and a record storm total of 26 inches. High winds created near blizzard conditions at Colorado Springs. Fairplay CO reported 43 inches of snow, with drifts ten feet high. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1988 - Eight cities in the central and western U.S. reported new record high temperatures for the date, including Lamoni IA with a reading of 67 degrees. Temperatures in North Dakota were as warm as those in Florida. (The National Weather Summary)

1989 - An upper level weather disturbance brought snow to parts of the central U.S. which just one day earlier were enjoying temperatures in the 60s. Snowfall totals in Missouri ranged up to nine inches at Rolla. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

1990 - Unseasonably cold weather followed in the wake of the winter storm in the northeastern U.S. Ten cities reported record low temperatures for the date, including Syracuse NY with a reading of 10 degrees below zero. Freezing temperatures in southeastern Virginia caused considerable damage to plants and fruit trees. The barometric pressure reading of 30.88 inches at Wilmington NC was February record for that location. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data)

2004 - A major snowstorm dumps up to 20 inches of snow in the Charlotte metropolitan area. Charlotte's third largest snowstorm on record accumulates 11.6 inches at the airport.


Some beautiful weather pictures-

I hope you all have enjoyed your weekend! Have a great week! I'll be updating on Starkville's weather tomorrow! (Monday)

LA NINA

Things I didn't really understand about LA NINA that you may find interesting!! We are currently in a La Nina winter for those of you who did not know. 

"La Niña is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific, compared to El Niño, which is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific. "

"In the continental US, during El Niño years, temperatures in the winter are warmer than normal in the North Central States, and cooler than normal in the Southeast and the Southwest. During a La Niña year, winter temperatures are warmer than normal in the Southeast and cooler than normal in the Northwest."

So I would say our weather this year, even though it is not very characteristic of "winter weather", is actually very common for this time of year. 

I'll be updating on our weather for this upcoming week if you want to come back later! We are going to have a pretty good week except for a maybe a few pop up showers on Tuesday and Wednesday! I hope you all have a great day!

Used site: www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov