On Tuesday morning at about 8:30am when I let the dog out in the backyard, I saw a thunderstorm building towards the east near Hurlburt Field and Fort Walton Beach. The rising sun was behind the storm clouds and shining through some ice clouds, causing some pretty diffractions. This gave me some good opportunity to … Read more
“We interrupt Major Mom’s writings about road trips and being “basic” while we discuss more pressing issues….” When one lives on the U.S. Gulf Coast, and it’s hurricane season, you have to be ready to put your life on hold whenever a system is forecast to head in your direction. We learn to keep supplies … Read more
I haven’t done too much blogging this past week, things were crazy with Dave having a medical procedure last Friday. Then we were stuck in the house for 3 days straight as tropical storm conditions and tornado warnings dominated the Florida Panhandle. It was challenging keeping the kids entertained, but we came through it just … Read more
This is a representative forecast, click here for the latest! Our thoughts and prayers are with those preparing for the onset of Hurricane Irene. My family experienced the crazy 2004 Hurricane Season on the East Coast of Florida. We packed both cars, both kids, our dog, and our most valuable belongings and tearfully evacuated our … Read more
The route we planned from Florida to Pennsylvania took us right across some of the destruction paths from this past spring’s Tornado “Superoutbreak” of April 25-28. On this trip I crossed three of this past spring’s tornado paths, each are discussed below. While part of me as a “weather weenie” finds a fascination in getting to … Read more
The webcam on my HBTS Rexford St. Weather Underground setup is dead. I don’t think it’s the webcam itself, it’s most likely the laptop that was hosting the webcam. That dastardly “kitchen laptop” that I’ve kept alive all. these. years. Anyhoo, since the screen on the laptop isn’t working, I have to plug it into … Read more
….doesn’t mean I never have to see snow again, right? Or drive in the snow again? (As promised in my previous post, here’s the story of why I’ll never buy a Ford Mustang north of the Mason/Dixon line!) On last weekend’s trip to Omaha, I was fortunate to travel in between major winter weather systems. … Read more
It didn’t take long to realize that pointing the webcam south would be a big mistake. For starters, the best windows to use were set in some by a front porch — so the view was competing with a soffitt, plus the neighbors’ houses. Dave pointed out to me that we weren’t showing much of … Read more
We haven’t completely worked out where we’re going to put it yet, but we have our webcam back running. Like last time, we’re pointing it out the front of the house, through the window. It’s pointing SOUTH, so we should be able to see systems coming in from off the Gulf. It won’t work at … Read more
We re-assembled our weather station in our backyard over the weekend. We have plenty of fenceline to choose from, and you can’t see the equipment from the street (always a bonus in a deed-restricted neighborhood). You can see current conditions on the right-hand column of the blog now, or you can click on the “sticker” … Read more