Tricia Clarke stood on a Lakeway hilltop, winds threatening to snatch the ball cap from her head, and pointed across miles of rolling, scrub-covered limestone countryside, past the distant blue line of Lake Travis, to a spot nearly 55 miles …
Churning, angry cloudscapes tinged with green and purple; panoramic long exposures crackling with streaks of lightning; it was the pictures that first caught David Patterson’s eye. He found himself noticing storm photos in a friend’s online gallery about three years …
High-tech radar may provide a good sense of what the day will look like, but radar alone isn’t always good enough. Sometimes weather spotters are needed to help with warnings and to verify radar data. Over 300,000 certified SKYWARN spotters …
With spring approaching, so is storm season in Louisiana and Mississippi. National Weather Service meteorologists are out on the road, training storm spotters to understand what they see in clouds and on the ground – and to call it in. …