Georgia Firestorm & Looking Ahead
The news for residents of Georgia and northern Florida isn't looking too good. Two large fires are still burning. The larger one SE of Waycross appears to have erupted again into two different fires. A report I heard on TV was that this is the largest fire event in Georgia's history. They need rain down there badly, and the forecast isn't looking good for any help there at all. Us southern plains residents feel their pain as we were enduring the same conditions last year. I hope that the exhausted and heroic fire crews there can contain it and get it under control. A little help from mother nature would be nice. Here are a couple of radar images of the fires. The green pixels are the fire hotspots where the densest concentration of smoke is occurring.
Here are some links of interest:
Waycross Georgia Newspaper
WSAV-TV Savannah
WTOC-TV Savannah
WALB - TV Albany
Current/Live Satellite:
RAMSDIS High Res Loop
Radar :
NWS Moody AFB
NWS Jacksonville
COD Moody AFB
COD Jacksonville
High resolution event analysis:
APRIL 20
APRIL 17
Keep up to date: High resolution event page.
Back here at home, a little action appears to be in store for the Rio Grande Valley, Trans Pecos and Big Bend areas today. Tomorrow, appears to be the Edwards Plateau into South Texas. Wednesday/Thursday really bears watching for my neck of the woods as a potent little impulse comes across the area. Timing is uncertain as is the track and intensity. Moisture and instability will be more than sufficient, so I think somebody somewhere is going to get a round of severe storms. Stay tuned as we get closer and the models latch onto it better.
All eyes are on the system advertised for next weekend. Here, the models really diverge on solutions. Again, I'm siding with the ECMWF because of it's consistency as well as keeping in theme with a very energetic southern stream pattern for the past several months. Given that, then Friday starts getting my interest with Saturday/Sunday appearing to be big severe weather days. Things will of course become clearer over the next few days for this event.
The GFS has been quite persistent in advertising a pretty active pattern starting this weekend and all of next week. It wants to carve out a resident western US trough....just what a stormchaser wants to see in May. :-)
I'm also cleaning up my stormpage data page. Look for some updates starting this evening with the Radar and Satellite stuff.
Here are some links of interest:
Waycross Georgia Newspaper
WSAV-TV Savannah
WTOC-TV Savannah
WALB - TV Albany
Current/Live Satellite:
RAMSDIS High Res Loop
Radar :
NWS Moody AFB
NWS Jacksonville
COD Moody AFB
COD Jacksonville
High resolution event analysis:
APRIL 20
APRIL 17
Keep up to date: High resolution event page.
Back here at home, a little action appears to be in store for the Rio Grande Valley, Trans Pecos and Big Bend areas today. Tomorrow, appears to be the Edwards Plateau into South Texas. Wednesday/Thursday really bears watching for my neck of the woods as a potent little impulse comes across the area. Timing is uncertain as is the track and intensity. Moisture and instability will be more than sufficient, so I think somebody somewhere is going to get a round of severe storms. Stay tuned as we get closer and the models latch onto it better.
All eyes are on the system advertised for next weekend. Here, the models really diverge on solutions. Again, I'm siding with the ECMWF because of it's consistency as well as keeping in theme with a very energetic southern stream pattern for the past several months. Given that, then Friday starts getting my interest with Saturday/Sunday appearing to be big severe weather days. Things will of course become clearer over the next few days for this event.
The GFS has been quite persistent in advertising a pretty active pattern starting this weekend and all of next week. It wants to carve out a resident western US trough....just what a stormchaser wants to see in May. :-)
I'm also cleaning up my stormpage data page. Look for some updates starting this evening with the Radar and Satellite stuff.
posted by Steve Miller TX at 4/29/2007 08:33:00 AM
2 Comments:
Yes it is bad. I chatted with a paramedic this weekend and he gave me some insight to this monster! Posted on my the blog about it. Forget storms. I just want rain now!!
Wow, great loop... really makes me appreciate being on the west side of it all... for now. We are having some side fires popping up a lot closer to home. Waycross is about 65 miles from me. We desperately need rain, desperately.
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