My storm chasing tour guest come from all over the world and to a person who is visiting Tornado Alley for the purpose of chasing storms, they sometimes go home with the feeling that a person must be mad to live here. From their point-of-view, if the weather cooperates with the tour during their visitation – they’ll see extreme weather at its best, or sometimes at its worst. But, in reality most people that live throughout the Great Plains have never seen a tornado and most never will.

Global Warming is big business. And no matter which side of the aisle you stand on you can point your finger at various companies and industries about their influence in shaping policies in regard to Global Warming. If you’re a believer then you’re going to point your finger at the oil and automobile industry and say they are trying to prevent the truth from getting out. If you’re a non-believer than your going to point your finger at the carbon credit and “green” industries and companies such as GE and say they are trying to use fear-mongering techniques to scare us all into buying their products.

Get ready for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs from Columbia Pictures and Sony Picture Animation! It will be the most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children’s book by Judi Barrett, the film focuses on a town where food falls from the sky like rain.

A slow moving system centered over Texas appears to not be in a hurry to go anywhere fast. The lingering system is bring rain and flooding to much of the southern states and even into the central plains. The Norman, OK WFO has issued Flood Watches for most of central Oklahoma as periods of heavy rain are dumping up to an inch per hour in some areas.

While at the bookstore that bares my family name the other day I picked up an interesting book that has been published annually in September since 1792 – The Old Farmer’s Almanac (OFA).

NASA’s TRMM Satellite is providing meteorologist with a lot of unique opportunities to study tropical rainfall rates, and tropical cyclones. TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) has an on-board radar that can scan storms with incredible accuracy from space.

BUENOS AIRES – A violent storm described as a freak “tornado” killed at least 17 people in the southern part of South America and punched hundreds of houses off their foundations Tuesday, officials said.

Tropical Storm Fred strengthened into a hurricane over the east Atlantic Tuesday. The National Hurricane Center’s track forecast will quickly push Fred to the north allowing the hurricane to steer clear of any land.

At 5:00 PM AST, the National Hurricane Center named Tropical Depression Seven – soon to be Tropical Storm Fred. Fred however is going to remain at sea and very likely won’t even get anywhere close to the western Atlantic.

A strong tropical wave is showing increasing organization and convection and according to the National Hurricane Center this system is likely to become the seventh tropical depression of the 2009 Atlantic Basin Hurricane Season.

The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Erika to a tropical depression, and it is expected that the storm will be further reduced to a mere low within a day. NHC’s wording is pretty straight-forward in that they do not believe that Erika will be able to regain any organized activity and restrengthen. And, kudos to NHC forecasters for going against the hurricane model guidance and getting it right.

I’ve probably just about wore out the life of this video, but there are some chase days that you’ll probably remember forever. I have many, but May 29th 2004 stands out for me. Particularity because of the shear ‘quality’ of the first tornado of what became a significant tornado outbreak across central Kansas.

The National Hurricane Center has played Erika very cautiously and with good understanding. There are a lot of inconsistencies between various forecast model guidance. The latest official forecast track issued by NHC shows that narrow black line move in a west-northwest direction, but Erika has decided once again to play by her own rules.

The title is a bit misleading, this post couldn’t obviously provide a detailed analysis of the entire tropical climatology for September.

The National Hurricane Center in Miami just issued Tropical Discussion #2 on Tropical Storm Erika and its pretty much a repeat of the first discussion. But really interest me is the official NHC forecast verses the HWRF and the GFDL model forecast (which have been fairly accurate so far this season).