Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Heavy snow expected today, already snowing pretty good in Bartlesville. Broken Arrow roof cam is on but setup still has a few bugs so not sure how long it will work.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
First time I have ever seen one of these!
934 PM CST WED JAN 30 2008
...SNOWSTORM IMPACT ALERT...
DANGEROUS SNOWFALL AMOUNTS ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS PORTIONS OF
NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA AND INTO FAR NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ON THURSDAY.
THE LATEST DATA SUPPORT TOTAL AMOUNTS OF 4 TO 6 INCHES NORTH OF
INTERSTATE 40 AND SOUTH OF THE KANSAS OKLAHOMA BORDER...WITH A
NARROW CORRIDOR OF 8 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE. THIS HEAVY
BAND OF SNOW IS POISED TO IMPACT THE TULSA METROPOLITAN
AREA...INCLUDING SUCH CITIES AS SAND
SPRINGS...JENKS...BIXBY...OWASSO...AND BROKEN ARROW. THE MAJORITY
OF THE SNOW WILL FALL BETWEEN SUNRISE AND SUNSET ON THURSDAY.
Update: 615pm
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TULSA OKAs of now seems 2 to 4 inches seems to be the common thinking although some are going with the 4 to 5 range.
603 PM CST WED JAN 30 2008
.4 INCH ACCUMULATION A GOOD BET FROM
ABOUT OKEMAH TO FAYETTEVILLE NORTH. GIVEN THE IMPRESSIVE THERMAL
STRUCTURE OF THIS SYSTEM A SWATH OF 8-10 INCHES SEEMS LIKELY...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Still a little uncertainty with this system because they still have not issued and watches or advisories, should be some out later today. Graphic below shows expected snowfall totals but as with any snow event you won't really know until it happens. Roof cam will be activated Thur AM.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Winter weather is the very difficult to forecast so basically you never really get a good picture on what will happen until about 24-36 hours out. The GFS did pick up on thurs event back around Jan 20th which is pretty good but it is still unclear as to how much snow we will get. Graphic below shows eastern Oklahoma getting dumped on pretty good with snow but still have several more model runs until then.
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Its not very ofter you get fog when temps are below freezing but when you do it makes for some cool photography. Went out early to shoot some video and ended up taking a few stills also. A couple of more photo's posted here.
Looks like tomorrow storm chances won't amount to much so attention turns to the possible snow event for the end of the week.
Looks like tomorrow storm chances won't amount to much so attention turns to the possible snow event for the end of the week.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
I got a little excited when I saw the graphic below, nothing better than a dryline slicing through Oklahoma with storms out ahead of it. But....after looking over things my excitement went away pretty quickly. Snow still looking possible by the Thur/Fri timeframe.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Big snow event still showing up on the models for the end of the month, so far we have not had any real snow this winter but we usually don't get our good snows in Oklahoma until Feb.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Slight chance of thunderstorms SE of here on Monday night. Ft Smith is close enough to drive when there is a chance of anything and hopefully this will shift back a little to the west.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Long range model hinting at an active pattern for the end of Jan and first part of Feb. Looks like there might even be a possible chase in there around the first.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
With not much really going on weather wise I will occasionally look at the long range models for entertainment purposes. These usually change with every run but every so often they will pick up on system and it may not happen on the exact day that it is showing at the moment but something could happen around that time frame. This morning while looking I noticed around the end of the month the GFS is showing a chance of storms with a chance of some big snow right after, will be interesting to watch how this pans out.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Only received a small dusting from this last system and looks like a few more just like it will come through over the next few days. I installed a different roof camera which is an old sony camcorder in a modified pelican case to protect it from the weather. I used an old satellite dish mount and attached it to the back of the chimney so it is out of view and it is looking towards the NW which it towards Tulsa. I am interested to see the bandwidth it requires and will probably only have it available during weather events.
LiveCam
LiveCam
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
So far we have had a pretty mild winter here outside of the ice storm and temps really have not gotten to cold. Looks like next week we will finally be getting some or the really cold air.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Weather picture for Wed. becoming a little clearer now as this system will not have much moisture to work with. One to two inches is still pretty good though and should not make that big of a mess after it is over.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
With this still being a few days out there is a chance this could be a non-event or it could turn out to be a big snow producer. Won't really know until it happens.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Below is a short video clip of lightning hitting the towers that sit of the NE side of Oklahoma City. This video is from June 19th 2007.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
posted by Charles at 9:00 AM ____________________________________________________________________________________________
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Yesterday turned out a little better than I expected and we actually had several tornado warnings issued for NE Oklahoma. All the tornado's ended up being in others states, most of the tornado's in Missouri were storms that fired in Oklahoma and started dropping tornado's once they crossed the border. I was able to get several live streams back to the station during the event, nothing to exciting but it worked great and even looked pretty good for streaming at night. Caught the lightning below looking south from Broken Arrow. This storm went tornadic a few seconds after I got these shots so I had to stop shooting and go after it.
Video Clip of the same two strikes above.
Video Clip of the same two strikes above.
Monday, January 07, 2008
Update:4:00pm
Tornado Watch for the Tulsa area until 10pm. I don't expect to see any tornado's out of this but I am hoping we at least get a good lightning show!
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Update:3:00pm
Two separate tornado watches to the northeast of Oklahoma with tornado warnings in central Missouri but nothing here yet. Looks like storms could hold off until dark which is fine with me because that makes for better lightning.
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Update:10:30am
With what the RUC is showing I am going to have a hard time leaving Tulsa. Image below shows storms firing west of Tulsa and if there is even the slightest chance of that I need to stay here.
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Will be heading out later today for what will probably be a Tornado Watch that should be issued later this afternoon. Not really expecting to see any tornado's but might be able to catch some lighting, wind and hail. Updates to follow.
Tornado Watch for the Tulsa area until 10pm. I don't expect to see any tornado's out of this but I am hoping we at least get a good lightning show!
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Update:3:00pm
Two separate tornado watches to the northeast of Oklahoma with tornado warnings in central Missouri but nothing here yet. Looks like storms could hold off until dark which is fine with me because that makes for better lightning.
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Update:10:30am
With what the RUC is showing I am going to have a hard time leaving Tulsa. Image below shows storms firing west of Tulsa and if there is even the slightest chance of that I need to stay here.
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Will be heading out later today for what will probably be a Tornado Watch that should be issued later this afternoon. Not really expecting to see any tornado's but might be able to catch some lighting, wind and hail. Updates to follow.
Sunday, January 06, 2008
Just like I guessed in my Jan 2 post this stuff has shifted out of the area and it looks like at this point Ft Smith would be a starting point for a chase. These early systems almost always do this and even by tomorrow Ft Smith may not even be an option. Even though my last storm chase was Oct 24th I not sure if that is enough to get me to go to Little Rock. If I feel like I can get a good lightning show out of it though it would be worth the drive.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
Still looking a some type of chase Monday, right now it looks like I will go to a Sallisaw/Ft Smith line and wait for a fast moving squall line to run over me. It has been a few years since we have seen a good squall line with damaging winds in Oklahoma. I am just going to hold out hope for the bare minimum of some good lightning to shoot! If things start to look really interest toward the Little Rock area I may even venture over that way, it has been a long time since my last storm chase so seeing anything would be worth the drive.
Friday, January 04, 2008
Looks like Tuesday is out and the only shot we have looks to be late monday night and it might be east and south of Tulsa. I think I actually heard a Tulsa TV met say the possibilty of tornado watches being issued!
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Still looking like there might be a shot of storms around on Monday. Tuesday is also looking interesting and it would be really nice to be able to get some lightning photo's this early in the year.
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Still messing around with some of the website code to try and get it to look the same in IE and Firefox. I have everything correct in Firefox but IE seems to be a little messed up which it is usually the other way around.
I have seen storms in January before but I don't ever thing I have seen chances for them this early in the the month. Will be interesting seeing how this pans out but if I were to take a guess all of this potential will shift to the SE once the weekend gets here.
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
I decided to try a new web design and two things I wanted to try was a dynamic web template (dwt) and have the ability to update my front page using Blogger. I like bloggers interface and how easy it is to upload photo/video plus the ability to view compose and html modes at the same time. It took a while to figure out how to get blogger to work with a (dwt) but I eventually figured it out and it seems to be working pretty good. Some of the video clips and the Live Cams are not working right now but I wanted to get the site up to see how it worked and most things will be updated and corrected over the next few weeks.
