Author Archives: Jon Wahl

Bowling Green, along with much of the Mid South, continues to experience abnormally dry conditions.  Since the first of the year, Bowling Green is experiencing a rainfall deficit of 3.42 inches, 2.44 of that deficit being since the first of … Continue reading →

An overall quiet weather pattern has been in place for the past few days, with the jet stream over the northern tier of states in the Contiguous United States.  In general this pattern reflects what is normally seen sometime around … Continue reading →

On this date fourteen years ago, April 16, 1998, the city of Bowling Green was devastated by a very potent supercell thunderstorm that produced baseball-size hail.  The storm developed in Logan County, and very quickly produced a tornado that would … Continue reading →

Both the NAM and the GFS seem to be in better agreement for 36 hours out from the 12Z run. Both are forecasting a widespread rain event, with the only difference being the GFS is wanting to soak the Deep … Continue reading →

While the Winter of 2010-2011 had a La Niña, it also saw anomalously negative NAO and AO throughout much of its entirety.  Winter 2011-2012 has seen La Niña as well, only as anomalously negative as NAO and AO were last … Continue reading →

The mild winter influenced by La Niña and very positive NAO and AO continues as a ridge of high pressure is in place over the East Coast providing solid warm air advection into the Mid South this morning. The day … Continue reading →

Monday evening began a pattern of continual precipitation throughout the Mid-South, and the rainfall amounts for the past 24 hours have been rather impressive in the Mid-South, with the bulk of the precipitation having fallen from thunderstorms at around 2am. … Continue reading →

The severe weather threat has diminished dramatically.  The lack of instability from diurnal heating has clearly taken its toll on the squall line, and the decay is quite evident in a recent radar image.  What can be expected from this … Continue reading →

Some breaks in the cloud cover have been occurring, which was expected based on earlier runs of the RUC showing a patch of drier air at 700mb moving through the area.  However, the limited amount of sunlight that has been … Continue reading →

With a decent ridge in place over the Southeastern CONUS and a deep positively-tilted long wave trough axis over the Western CONUS, today looks very mild once again.  Ridging over the Southeastern CONUS similar to what is in place currently … Continue reading →