Drew Burden

A nerd showers you with his opinions.

Entries Tagged ‘Severe Weather’

Whirlwinds and whirling winds: TriStateAlerts so far

The pace my life has taken, even after tax season has pretty much ended, is enough to bring Chuck Norris to his knees. I keed. However, I’m managing to stay busy. Check this out: During last year’s ice storm, Nathan and I started a little Twitter account we called TriStateAlerts. We mainly just used it [...]

A model day

Today was a good severe weather day for the area. Lots of action and I saw the pinnacle of all things which is a TV station getting a tornado live on the air. Before today, that was the kind of stuff I could only see on YouTube. Hopefully this is a sign of things to [...]

Tracking

I just told Nick this, but there’s a hell of a line of storms on the way. This is how I look at what’s coming. I have KML files of the NWS warning polygons and several assorted radar images loaded into Google Earth, including storm relative motion and wind velocity data. (Download here.) This is [...]