Amarillo Weather Map Provides Clues

May 30th, 2012

Being in Amarillo, Texas and watching the local weather map today provided some insight into my tornado taming efforts.  I was often curious as to why storms with tornadic potential will sometimes materialize in the nation’s heartland even though I have measured nothing abnormal over the prior day or so from my tornado taming snapshot of conditions relevant to incoming air masses from the Pacific Ocean.  Actually, as it turns out, the answer to such a question was obvious – and I have likely pondered such.  However, even the easy questions can appear as difficult until one knows the answer.  Anyway, the answer seems to equate to the fact that I probably will have to expand my monitoring efforts up the Pacific coast in order to really ascertain the true potential for the appearance of tornadic storms in the heartland areas of North America.  Unfortunately, to expand in such a fashion is likely to require some amount of funding, no doubt.   If I have the opportunity to pursue such in the future, maybe I will seek such funding.  But, then again, being as far outside the box of paradigms as my theory seems to be, one has to wonder about the possibility of getting any weather-related funding for such efforts from research-funding entities. 

AVT

PS.  The same reasoning probably explains why I saw no weather systems materializing out of the Four Corners region.

The Saints and the Angels were Singing this Evening – but not too strongly.

April 30^th, 2012

I went to see what I would hear this evening, as the signals of late have been on the weak side since yesterday morning. 

Btw, Western Kansas, Northern Texas, and Oklahoma, I figure it takes one to two days for anything I sense to make it to you (generally a day and a half, maybe), should such make it to you.  But there appears no hard and fast rules for travel time of what I attempt to measure.  (See:  Tornado hits small Oklahoma town, knocks out power, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/01/us-usa-tornado-oklahoma-idUSBRE84009E20120501  , Last accessed early AM of May 1^st, 2012).

My measurements, of course, not being nearly as “wind-centric” as the other more paradigm-laden tornado researchers.  (See:  Tornado scientists are surprised to find ‘ribbon’ in thunderstorm data, http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/tornado-scientists-are-surprised-to-find-ribbon-in-thunderstorm-data/2012/04/30/gIQAcx2AsT_story.html , Last accessed early AM of May 1^st, 2012).

But on the bright side, Saint Barbara seemed to be passing along her greetings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fiXkvsKpdk

AVT

Weak Signals April 25th, 2012

Today the measured signals have been weaker than what is typically normal of late.  However, I would likely dismiss these weak signals as misleading due to the incoming storm from the Pacific Ocean.  I plan to go and take a snap-shot measurement shortly after this blogging this entry.  I would also tend to suspect that the weakened signals may not manifest themselves into any concern for the nation's heartland as it would appear to me that the incoming front could expend its energy prior to reaching the other side of the Rockies.  Then again, of course, I could be wrong.  Unfortunately at this point in time, I can't say that I necessarily understand any ramifications of fluctuating measured signals.

AVT
April 25th, 2012

Barometer readings have fallen from 30.0 (0000 hrs) to 29.7 (1545 hrs, about when it first started raining a bit) back up to 29.9 in.hg. (2200 hrs, PST).  At the same time as the barometer was spiking downward, the temperature reportedly dropped 20 deg F - within the span of an hour or so.  This in addition to other weird weather occurrences (winds, etc.) at about that time around the SoCal area.

4/26/12 @ 0100 hrs PST

At the time of the snapshot measurements from the last hour or so, it seems the signals are somewhat weaker to the point of what would have been the norm a couple of years ago.  However, exceptionally odd signal patterns were detected; with St. B seeming to reach further and into locations where such had not been typically received previously.  St. D did not challenge those signals and accordingly appeared elsewhere. (Barometer is currently falling below 29.9 inhg with the dewpoint rising.)  I hope that I am not attempting to 'reinvent the wheel' here.  But even if I am, I can't help but to believe that they may have missed something of which they may not have been aware on the first iteration.

Weak Signals of Late, Swirling Energy as of now.

April 14th 2012, 0300 hours Saturday morning, Los Angeles Time.


Over the last couple of days, my snapshots of measured signals have displayed a weaker strength than what is apparently the typical signal strength of late. I am of the belief that the signal strengths that I measure seem to correlate to the possible appearance of tornadoes in the heartland of the U.S. nation. I believe this hypothesis worthy of investigation or I would not be bothering with such endeavors or related writings/blogs.

Regarding the weakened signals over the last two days or so, I haven’t felt the need to blog on the matter for several reasons. First, I sort of credited the weakened signals to the incoming early-spring storm. (The storm is currently passing on to/through the western portion of the North American continent from the Pacific Ocean.) Secondly, I believe these latest weakened signals to be sort of an exception to my prediction model – for further reasons I won’t go into now. And Finally, I have not had much free time to blog of late, unfortunately.

To be clear, I am only able to measure my readings in a ‘snap-shot’ format as I currently have no rich uncle to provide lucrative budgets to fund any continuous monitoring of the variables in question unlike folks in other portions of the nation – such as the tornado researchers in Norman, Oklahoma, among other places.

Anyway, tonight I went out to take a snap-shot of the measured signals. The energy in the atmosphere was definitely swirling at that time (at about 2 A.M.). At times during this snap-shot, I was able to receive clear signals from both of the saints concurrently with the angels as well. While the signals from the saints did not seem at full strength, they were not overly weakened. However, given the swirling energy in the atmosphere, a moment or two later of being able to measure all of the signals at once, I was not able to measure any signals.

AVT


Tornado hits Norman, Okla.; minor injuries reported



Norman, Oklahoma Tornado 2012: Strong Storm Hits Central Oklahoma

Weak Signals Yesterday, Tornadoes in Texas Today

April 3rd, 2012


Tornadoes rip through Dallas area, northeast Texas


This blog is for my records.

Though I didn’t create a blog entry to catalogue these facts beforehand, I was measuring considerably weaker signals than what I would consider to be the typical norm. I measured these weakened signals from approximately late Sunday through sometime mid-day/earlier today (Tuesday). Today, tornadoes touched-down in the Dallas, Texas area.

A couple of reasons existed as to why I did not blog ahead of time. First, I have been somewhat constrained for time, of late. Additionally, I thought the weakened signals were the result of a localized disturbance. Finally, I seem to be somewhat discombobulated of late with regards to the measured signals. It’s as if my calibration or correlation index has been slightly skewed. I don’t know what, if anything, has changed. But the measured signals have been significantly different of late.

It seems that often when I measure weakened signals, tornadoes may likely appear in the nation’s Heartland. However, there still exists times when I measure weakened signals and tornadoes don’t appear – not that I know of anyhow. I’m still not really sure what is going on with the whole thing or with the magnitudes of the signals. Yet, there appears to me to be a correlation between weakened signals here by the Pacific Ocean and subsequent appearances of tornadoes elsewhere in the nation.

Hopefully in the not too distant future, I may have the chance to study the matter in a more scientific manner.

AVT


Barometer dropped from 30.0+ to 29.9- inHg at noon on Sunday. Rising back to 30.0+ mid-day Monday and went down back down again a couple of hours later. Currently the reported reading is 29.97 inHg. I cant tell if the barometer is currently rising or falling.

Signals Seem to be Returning to Normal.

March 21st, 2012 (Just past 12 AM Wedneday, 00 hours PST day light savings time)



The somewhat weaker than usual signals of the last couple of days seem to be returning to what is the norm – at least for this evening. Worth noting, what is the norm seems to be much stronger than what was the norm a couple of years ago or so. I don’t know exactly what has changed in the overall scheme of things/signals measured.

Reported barometer readings:
Currently 30.1 inHg
For Mar. 20th bouncing from 30.5 to 31.5 and back to 30.5 inHg
For Mar 19 rolling from 29.5 to 30.5

See:

Satellite Sees 'Strongest Tornadoes in Years' Strike Texas

Tornado Hits San Antonio as Severe Weather Rattles South and Midwest


VIDEO: Tornadoes Slam Texas and Oklahoma

Weak Signals of Late, Mar. 8th, 2012

March 8th, 2012

Over the last two days - or so, and a few days after the massive amounts of tornadoes in the haeartland, the measured signals have been weaker than they have typically been in recent times. The signals seem to be more in keeping with how they were a couple/few years back. Not sure if the latest solar flare activity or passing cold front of yesterday has had any impact on the measurements. I'll try to go take a snapshot this evening.

AVT