Ramblings of a Graduate Student

Not much time to blog tonight as today got away from me.  (I spent about an hour and a half with reporters from South Korea doing stories on meteorology in the United States).  However, I thought a nice view of the western hemisphere from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) 12.  This image is valid 8:45 PM CST 2 March 2010.  The white (clouds) along the east coast of the United States are associated with the storm that brought snow to northern Georgia and portions of the Carolina’s today.  The good news for the northeast United States is that this storm should remain south and east of them, giving them a reprieve from all the snow of late!  (The storm that brought all the snow to the northeast last weekend is located to the northeast of the east coast cyclone.  It is the white speckled comma looking shape that extends westward toward the east coast cyclone.

This week continues to be a busy one for me, but hopefully in the coming days I’ll find the time in the next few days to discuss the possibility of late weekend or early next week thunderstorms in the central plains.  It is still a ways off, but severe weather cannot be entirely ruled out.  (I should also add that is cannot be entirely ruled “in” either!)