Weather Hazards Fire in Clinch County near Okefenokee Swamp 21 Apr 202621 Apr 2026 If you're on the GA coast and wondering why the sky is reddish-brown and it smells like something is burning, it's due to smoke from a fire in Clinch County…
Geophysics… Big earthquake near Japan, no tsunami (20 Apr 2026) 20 Apr 202620 Apr 2026 There was a mangitude 7.4 earthquake off the coast of Japan this morning ET ... The big fear from events in that location is another tsunami like the 2011 Tohoku…
Administrative… Cold front dries up as it approaches the coast 19 Apr 202619 Apr 2026 As expected, the cold front is looking to bring clouds and not much else to coastal GA/SC. Here's the rain rate maps for the next three days animated using QGIS,…
Tropical Cyclones… Major Typhoon headed to Guam? 10 Apr 202610 Apr 2026 We're getting an early start to the West Pacific hurricane season, with a potentially bad scenario shaping up. Tropical Storm Sinlaku has formed just north of the Equator, and is…
Doomwatch!… Doomwatch 3 April 2026 3 Apr 20264 Apr 2026 Most of the doom we're watching is of the "humans acting like Betta fish instead of sentient beings" kind than from nature. Heat signatures including ongoing fire at Qatar's huge…
Remote Sensing… Drought continues, fires in Georgia. 22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026 If it seems smoky outside, it is. I don't know if some stupid with a flare gun was involved, but there is a wildfire at Fort Stewart ... and several…
Weather Hazards Drought watch, cooling off 13 Mar 202613 Mar 2026 The front that passed through the Southeast helped in some places, but overall we're still way below normal for rainfall over the last six months. Here's the current drought map…
Severe Weather… Doomwatch for Sat/Sun, 21/22 Feb 2026 21 Feb 202621 Feb 2026 Doesn't look like much yet, but big storm system is brewing in the south today, and will be evolving into a powerful nor'easter tomorrow. Visual band from GOES East of…
Research!… This cold night? 19 Feb 202619 Feb 2026 It's late winter verging on spring, so that means random swings in the weather as the climate system tries to roll over and balance the changing amount of energy received…
Severe Weather… Valentines day storms? 10 Feb 202610 Feb 2026 It feels like I spend a lot of time here debunking weather dooming and hype. It's gotten really bad lately. A growing problem is that anybody can take model graphics…
