Whether you knew of it as the APRS station DW3809 or as Wunderground Station KNEBELLE12, this afternoon we disassembled the weather station and will set it up in a couple weeks in Navarre, FL. I’m in the process of deleting our Wunderground tags from this blog and our Vollmer Family homepage. I hope you enjoyed … Read more
Most of this text is stolen from a 21 November 2008 blog post about the crazy weather experiences we’ve had everywhere we’ve lived since we’ve been married. At the end of that blog post, I posed the question: “What will Bellevue, Nebraska bring?” Now that we’re wrapping up our Nebraska tour and headed toward our … Read more
Well, it looks like my flapping of the gums has once again made it into mainstream media…. For those unaware, I had written a blog post about the USAF’s “Above All” campaign of 2008. It was a positive discussion about it, a little tongue-in-cheek at worst. I think I make mention of videogaming teenagers perhaps … Read more
Greetings from Norway, I mean, Nebraska! On Thursday night, after a couple days of melting ice and cold nights, and after a weak cold front moved through, saturated air near the surface brought foggy conditions to our neighborhood. On Friday morning, I saw our trees covered in heavy frost. From 2010 01 15 Rime Ice … Read more
A billion years ago, in one of my meteorology classes, I was taught the temperature ranges at which snowflakes will form their different potential shapes. I remember getting tested on the information, too. “At what temperature ranges will capped columns form?” Heck if I know now, but I can now find out with the click … Read more
Now that I’m home, I’m slowly getting back to normal. One of the things that was on my mind while I was away was setting up one of our webcams (that we used to keep in touch during my deployment) as a weather webcam, that connects to our home weather station. So here you go. … Read more
This is my attempt to share a video I took about 1/2 hour after the first wall of dust and wind hit us here on the 11th. Visibility was about 1/10 of a mile and the winds were from the northwest at 35-40 knots. It takes a REALLY long time to upload a video to … Read more
The dust storm continues. It isn’t as windy as yesterday, only gusting up to about 25 instead of 35 knots. But the chalky goodness is still flooding down from Syria and Iraq.I’m usually the first to admit that I haven’t truly forecast the weather in a really long time and on this trip I tend … Read more
I sorta figured this would happen while I’m here. “What’s that?” A shamal. “What the heck is a shamal?” Well, let’s define it here. It’s a strong northerly wind that picks up dust from Syria and Jordan and carries it all the way down the Arabian peninsula. And it’s shamal-ing right now as I type … Read more