Spring Flooding, Severe Weather & Speculation on El Nino VS La Nina - Tornadoes Possible Today

I could pretty much say "Nuff Said"

Fronts moving West to East across the nation are not a stimulus for tropical development. Sometimes, an early season storm forms at the tail end of a cold front. Not the current front that faded away just before making it to Miami, but the one behind it might be worth watching as it gets further South than the last. We are on a roller coaster still with cold fronts, a carousel in the atmosphere pulling each up and down over and over. Tornadoes are possible today in several places.

http://www.weather.gov/

Put your Zipcode in and find your weather.

Spring Flooding is still the main news with concerns for more severe weather that is typical this time of year as warm air from the GOM slams into fast moving cold fronts. The big question is if the fronts are moving fast or if they slow down enough to mitigate potential problems. This is Spring still and every year this time of year people begin to look to see if there is an El Nino or no Nino or maybe even a La Nina. I'm not sure what it is, perhaps the sexy name, but it captivates bored tropical meteorologists into waxing poetic online about possibilities that are too far out to be certain. Note if TIME magazine has not put El Nino on the cover of their current issue it's probably not a huge issue and something meteorologists can argue over endlessly while throwing darts at empty hurricane tracking maps. Don't kid yourself... hardcore addicts still have hurricane tracking maps. They may not admit it in public, but in private they show them off comparing size, type and quality as if they are.... baseball cards and autographed bats. That said I have a magnetic one, a cork board one and some have much bigger shinier ones than me. 

An interesting article about La Nina:

http://www.weathernationtv.com/news/la-nina-blame-active-tornado-season/

Note when there is no hurricane to follow we enter into obsession and speculation on El Nino and La Nina.

Good discussion online.

We wait and watch.

Well I do.

And I'm still watching the EPAC.

Convection should eventually congeal into something.

Look at that huge complex over S America.

Bullseye over Lake Maracaibo

https://www.rt.com/viral/343819-lightning-capital-world-venezuela/

You thought it was Tampa Bay?

That moisture works it's way N into the Caribbean.

Or more often in May and June into EPAC.

Keep watching.

Add in snow melt and spring floods this month.

There's a lot going on even if there are no hurricanes.

Dust off those hurricanes maps hidden in the closet.

Check out those generators.

Start planning for 2017 Hurricane Season.

Bret will show up eventually.

BOC?

Subtropical Atlantic Storm?

GOM?

Keep reading... 

..and watching those loops.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter. Add me, tweet me your thoughts.

Ps Hey we all have addictions. 

Mine is weather.... 

;)

Not the song I wanted but close enough...

Chicago Gets 1st Snow of the Season. Storm Moving Towards East Coast

Just marking a moment in weather history for the Winter of 2016. No this isn't about the tropics. Well, I do have one fact I'm putting up but this is all about the first snowfall of the year in Chicago. I wasn't paying attention much to the weather this morning. Resting, a bit under the weather myself. Allergies and sinus nothing big and yet annoying. My son in Chicago messaged me and asked me when the snow will start. I smiled. He's on a long weekend trip with some friends to check out various buildings and well that's what architecture students like to see on vacation and he was hoping to catch some of "the seasons" away from Miami.

I checked the most reliable sites and many had icons for rain mixed with snow and a low chance of much if any accumulation. As I know that story from Raleigh I warned him he might not see much but maybe. I did notice the NWS was updating it's discussion and TWC took down their rain and snow icon for light snow with a few inches of accumulation. I smiled.

And then it began to snow and snow and snow. The snow stuck, the snow accumulated and the Miami kids got to enjoy a rare treat. I know this because I'm on Snapchat with him and they had fun out and about in the snow. Oddly, he and I were in NYC 2 weeks ago and we saw snow flurries. Maybe he's a snow magnet? He's coming for a visit, I'm gonna start watching for any chance of snow down the road. I can dream right?

So this storm has been an over producer was we like to say.

What will it do next as it moves East?

Up on www.spaghettimodels.com Mike has snow info up.

Seems winter is making it's presence known.

One of it's presents is beautiful photo ops ...

Beautiful. So beautiful. I want some.

I'm getting rain this week.

And that's good as we could use the rain in the SE.

And now that the hurricane season is over.

SAL has taken a vacation it seems.

Go figure. Nada.

Just the way it goes.

As for this coming winter.

Weathermen win some...

...they lose some.

Will be a while to see just what we will be.

So stay tuned and pay attention.

Besos BobbiStorm

@bobbistorm on Twitter

Ps Love it... 

Everyone loves the first snow of the Season ;)

Not just Miami kids on vacation.