Central Ohio

Posted by: Buckey2745, 11:54 PM GMT on May 18, 2013

While this weekend has been projected to be a relatively quiet weekend in terms of truly severe weather, I did spot an absolutely beautiful Thunderhead developing just southeast of Canal Winchester, OH. Perfect structure, classic anvil top beginning to develop. Just a picturesque scene on a spring evening.

Here's to hoping this produces some lightning to photograph after dark!

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TornadoQuest: Unsettled Weekend, Severe Unlikely

Posted by: Buckey2745, 10:43 PM GMT on May 16, 2013

A stalled frontal boundary parked near the I-70 corridor this weekend will be the focus for afternoon convection on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately for the TornadoQuest, none of these storms are expected to be tornadic.

What we should expect is what we saw this afternoon... storms fire south of the boundary and move east to eventually southeast:

Most of these storms will probably stay south of the Columbus are...

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From Rain to Frost

Posted by: Buckey2745, 3:08 PM GMT on May 11, 2013

Yesterday's heavy rain threat never materialized in to a flood event, but we did get our biggest single day rain total of the year here in Canal Winchester with 1.21", crushing the previous high of 0.95" from April.

The rain added to an average year of rain so far, putting us at 11.17", only about 1.64 below average.

The real story will be the cloudy lull today that will lead to a second cold front in 24 hours smashing through our area tonight...

Updated: 3:09 PM GMT on May 11, 2013

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May 10th: Heavy Rain Threat

Posted by: Buckey2745, 5:28 PM GMT on May 10, 2013

Yesterday it appeared that today's risk could be severe weather. The risk was small, but high winds and small hail could have been a possibility. But now, instability is off to our east, shear is almost non-existant, and WBZ is up around 10k feet. So the focus has been turned to heavy rain.

A large MCS is approaching from the southwest, and should overtake our area by late afternoon:

PWAT values will be approaching 1.4 with this system t...

Updated: 7:14 PM GMT on May 10, 2013

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A Rainout

Posted by: Buckey2745, 7:42 PM GMT on May 07, 2013

A relatively warm, dry and beautiful stretch of weather has come to an end for us here in Central Ohio, and May showers have set in? I guess I always thought it was April showers. Oh well.

Clouds started poring in to the region Sunday afternoon as the cutoff low over the southeastern US slowly made its way toward the east coast. By yesterday rain actually set in, with 0.15" falling throughout the day... just enough to make things damp. While that may have...

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