Category: nowcast

AMS: Best Practices for Sharing Weather Information on Social Media

January 26, 2017

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Erik Proseus

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education, nowcast, social media

Earlier this year at the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) 2017 Annual Meeting in Seattle, the AMS Council adopted a set of “best practices” for publicly sharing weather information via social media. As most of you are aware, there are many choices when it comes to consuming weather information. From local TV, to national cable channels,…
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Rain in Arkansas – will it effect the Memphis metro tonight?

August 19, 2012

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Erik Proseus

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forecast discussion, nowcast

A shortwave (or impulse of atmospheric energy) is rotating south around the backside of a large upper level trough over the eastern U.S. mentioned in yesterday’s blog. This wave has combined with heating to force scattered thunderstorms and showers over western portions of the Mid-South and Ozark region. Below is the radar image from…
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Welcome new MWN team members!

August 5, 2012

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Erik Proseus

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intern, nowcast

As many of our followers and friends know, MemphisWeather.net (MWN) excels in providing precise and vital storm information via social media when inclement weather threatens or is ongoing. Called “nowcasting,” MWN was (and still is) one of the only organizations in the nation to provide this service consistently on social media, namely Twitter and Facebook.…
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Recap of Mid-South severe storms and MWN’s storm coverage – January 22, 2012

January 24, 2012

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Erik Proseus

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nowcast, severe thunderstorms

Contrary to Monday night’s lead story on ABC World News, severe storms moved into the Mid-South with plenty of advance notice (MWN Blog post #1, MWN Blog post #2) on Sunday night. The morning started like a typical winter day – cool and cloudy – but quickly changed such that by late afternoon, it felt like…
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The Top 11 of ’11: Mid-South weather stories from MWN (part 1)

December 27, 2011

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Erik Proseus

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aurora borealis, mobile applications, nowcast, social media, top 11

Everybody does Top 10 lists to end the year (or daily if your name is David Letterman), so MWN decided we should too. Only once we put together the list of Top 10 Mid-South weather stories of 2011, the list was 10+1, or 11 if you are up on your 1st grade math! So we…
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Isolated t’storm over the heart of the city

July 3, 2011

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Erik Proseus

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nowcast, radar

RADAR UPDATE, 7pm: MWN StormView Radar is now showing the storm to have completely dissipated. The airport reported a wind gust to 38 mph from the north as the outflow from the storms crossed over, though no rain was recorded. The temperature dropped to 88 degrees. No further rain is expected this evening for those…
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