Severe Weather Season Is Here: Stay Safe with WeatherCall

For those who have been following this site for quite some time you know I have been discussing and promoting WeatherCall.  That is because I know how well it works and how it can SAVE LIVES during the most severe of weather conditions.  WeatherCall is an advanced weather notification system that provides you with timely, reliable and accurate weather warnings through multiple modes of notification.  From phone call messages to text messaging and email, too, you will never have to worry about missing a weather notification for your location.

Now, WeatherCall , The CouponCentsation and Doppler Dale are teaming up to provide you with this service with an added BONUS for just $9.95 a year. This new packaged deal, WeatherCall @Home, will not only provide you with the standard WeatherCall service (see below for additional details)  but also WeatherCall Wx Text, an additional $10 value. That is right, you will get both the standard WeatherCall service plus the WeatherCall Wx Text service for ONLY $9.95 a year!

This package deals is a BRAND NEW service and will provide you with additional warning notifications via text notification for three additional locations in addition to your set primary location, utilized for the standard WeatherCall service.  These additional locations can be your child's school location, your work location or a specific driving route. You will be able to set a central point. Around the central point you set,  a 5 mile warning monitoring box will then be drawn. When a warning is issued that crosses through the monitoring box a text notification will be issued to provide you with the notification you need to be safe. 

As a meteorologist, I can attest strongly to the accurate, timely performance of WeatherCall. It is how I keep my family safe and I strongly encourage you to get  WeatherCall and keep your family safe. Jennifer and I can sleep at ease when severe weather is in the forecast because I know my phone will ring when a critical weather warning is issued for our home. That is how comfortable and confident I am in this service.

Standard WeatherCall Service Details

•        Valid for (1) Location (You Define the Location Precisely to a Physical Address)
•       Register Up to (3) Phone Numbers to Receive Warning Notification
•       Register Up to (3) Email Addresses to Receive Warning Notification and/or SMS/Text
•       Choose the Warnings To Be Notified for (Tornado, Severe Thunderstorm and/or Flash Flood)

WeatherCall  WxText Service Features

• Register An Additional Phone Number (Total of 4 numbers Weather Call + WxText)
• Choose (3) Additional Location Points to Set Warning Notification Monitoring Box
• Receive Text Messages for ALL National Weather Service Warnings

Another BIG Winter Storm To Bring Heavy Snow/Severe Storms

Another very strong late winter storm system will be digging into the 4-corners late this weekend. With it will come yet another round of very heavy snow across many of the same locations that just saw 6"-12" on Wed/Thu. The snow will be falling first across the mountains of Utah, Colorado, Nevada, Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico, today/Sunday. The storm will begin to strengthen on Monday and as it does the intensity of the snow will increase across the panhandles of TX/OK and through Kansas into Nebraska.

On the southern end of this system, a wide swath of moderate to heavy rain will be found. By Monday morning, heavy rain will be found from southwest Georgia  into the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. Along the Gulf Coast is where we could find some severe thunderstorms. The primary threat will be for damaging winds and hail.

As Monday progresses, the precipitation shield will expand over Missouri. At the same time cold air will be crashing further east. I expect the rain to change over to heavy snow along the I-70 corridor from Topeka back into central Missouri. Additionally, the system will be deepening and that means strong winds will become a threat. Mixed with the heavy snow a blizzard is potentially setting up for this region. The colder air will make it to the Mississippi River by Tuesday morning changing over lingering rain to a wintry mix and then snow for the St. Louis Metro area eastward into the western Ohio Valley.

A Strong Push to End Meteorological Winter

Mother Nature is going to remind you that while the end of February brings a close to meteorlogical winter, the official end is not until the 20th of March. Today, we are seeing the first of several strong waves of energy that will bring wintry weather to much of the nation. The center of the nation is being whitened out with heavy snow from Kansas to Illinois. When it is all done a very large swath of 6" of snow will be on the ground including the areas around Wichita, Kansas City, northwest St. Louis and into central Illinois.

This is only round, one, though of a return taste of winter. The next storm system is already entering into the picture in the Gulf of Alaska. This upper wave will drop southeast into the 4-Corners region this weekend. More mountain snows will be possible with this wave of energy. The storm will progress into the center of the nation on Monday bringing another round of wintry precipitation possible from Missouri into the Upper Midwest. This round; however, will be much lighter but will add to the snow pack. This will help aid intensify the cold air that will be following in behind it.This shot of cold will follow all the way to the Atlantic coast and as far south as the Southeast.

The pattern that is setting up will have a large trough encompassing most of the eastern U.S. The center of the trough will be over Quebec/eastern Ontario Canada and this will help spin additional waves of energy ouf of the Plains of Canada through the Plains of the U.S. and into the Southeast through the next 10 to 12 days. That means a cold and active period is likely to occur from the Plains to the Midwest and even into the Southeast.

January Will End On a Wild Side

The end of this January is going to be full of all types of weather from rain, snow, warm and cold to some tornadoes, too. A full outlook is provided in the below weather briefing video.
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Where Was the FREEZING Rain?

Waking up this morning I was reminded that no matter how much education and experience one gains in the meteorological field that the weather will do as it wishes, rehumbling those of us in the field. I, like many of you, awoke expecting to see at least wet conditions if not a bit icy and chilly. But to instead find it dry and milder with temperatures no where near freezing, around 40, was a surprise. As a result, I decided a good work out was needed to regain my thoughts and disgust over my forecast.

I will admit, I believed, yesterday, this was a tough forecast in where we (TN Valley) were on the bitter edge of the icing issue. But the strength of the cold and dry air that had just arrived and was in place, I felt, was going to do its dirty work. My experiences over the past 16 years have shown how hard it is to erode arctic air in a "wedging event" when the flow remains easterly at the surface. I have also been bitten, this time not being the first, when the air is quite dry. I have been bitten in both directions. One in where the dry air is so that it keeps any precipitation from ever reaching the ground. One case in particular comes to mind. I was working the overnight shift and we had several inches of snow in the forecast (3"-7"). As the early morning hours ticked away we watched the radar light up brightly but nothing was reaching the ground. Every hour that passed we realized one less inch was going to accumulate. By sunrise, the echoes were diminishing. Nearly 6-8 full hours of solid radar returns had occured with just a flurry making its way to the surface. The other situation was in which no frozen precipitation was expected by the dry air instead created enough evaporational cooling that, SURPRISE, snow/sleet was falling. And yes, it accumulated and caused trouble. This was an event in which it was somewhere in the middle of these two.

Icy Start to Friday in The Southeast/TN Valley

A complicated weather situation is developing across the Tennessee Valley. An arctic cold front has slid through northern Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia with a sharp temperature spread from north to south. As of 10 AM, temperatures in central Alabama were in the 50s while along the AL/TN border temperatures were around 35. Additionally, much drier air is filtering in, too, with dewpoints down into the teens across southern-middle TN. This will come into play with regards to the weather expected Friday morning.

Southern Ice Today, Snow for Thursday?

The cold front that has brought much colder conditions back to the TN Valley has basically stalled from north-central Georgia into east-central Alabama down to near Mobile along the Gulf coast. Air still remains very warm ahead of the front with temperatures back into the 60s/70s while they quickly drop into the mid 30s across the TN Valley and into the upper 20s back into the Mid-South.

This frontal boundary will remain the focus to allow a couple surface waves to ride northeastward along. These surface waves will help bring yet more rainfall to much of South for another 24 hours. This continues to bring the concern for additional flooding and also icing. It appears that another 0.50" to 1.0" rainfall is possible across the Tennessee Valley. Flooding is already occurring on the Paint Rock River in Woodville and on the Big Willis Creek in Ft. Payne. Additionally, the Flint River in Brownsboro will likely climb out of its banks over the next day or so.