James McCormick

Every once in a while, the weather surprises. 10/6/2010 in Arizona was one of those days that even though the atmosphere said what was going to happen, it was still weird to see happen in real time.

The mammatus field in northern Kansas on October 6th, 2016, was among the best that I have ever seen.

Darn near perfect supercell picture, Simon. Well done.

Hug your parents if you still have one/both of them. A lot fewer people have both parents at 40 than at 30.

Travel while you have your health, too. You won't quite be able to do everything (Like a Canyonlands backcountry) when you're 40.

Don't let stupid people control your spirit.

For the intense detail of essentially creating a *new* damage indicator, many weeks is pretty common. The new DI created for the Joplin tornado was done in a few days because, though nobody would say it, there was an urgency to make sure that tornado was not left as an EF4+.

No surprises here. That day looked, smelled, and felt like Coleridge '03 from the start.

No this will make it worse, because it will embolden the idea that if you just look hard enough (as if money is not an object), you can find a truer estimate of wind speeds.

I would hope this, like joplin, would underscore how terribly hard associating wind speeds with tornado intensity is.

It's so rare that we get to do a deep-dive on the damage that rural tornadoes cause, and I'm glad this one got it.

It doesn't diminish Mayfield, New London, Pilger, Rolling Fork, Elkhorn, Minden, Greenfield, or a host of others whose true intensities during the "drought" forever lies unknown.

Elkhorn Tornado Series: Pastor Brad Zook Interview Pastor Brad Zook of Elkhorn-Brookside details his experience during and after the Elkhorn, Nebraska tornado of April 26th, 2024.

Brad Zook, campus pastor at the Elkhorn campus of the Brookside church, discusses the afternoon of April 26th, 2024 and the aftermath of the violent tornado. #newx
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4.35" in southern Gage County, Nebraska overnight. Beatrice (a few miles north) has 3 Octobers since 2000 with more than 4.35" for the entire month.

Oh it’s definitely trivial especially compared to laughing at texas.

Kinda circular because that implies Cincy isn’t a good win.

Cincy being above Nebraska is a choice I suppose, but they did play…

This game was a little bit of a one off game with the heavy rain and the FSU motivation and Simpson's first road start and the fact that FSU nearly loses a player to a shooting a couple of days later, but that game was also more telling about the SEC this year than ESPN wants it to be.

Accumulating hail forecast verification!

The wind here today is FABULOUS

I thought there was a pretty good fire with one of the Greenfield IA turbines, too.

Graphic showing details about a mountain tornado that occurred on 09/13/25 along the northern slopes of sawtooth mountain.

Sentinel satellite data showing the “tornado scar” left behind from damaged trees from the sawtooth mountain tornado.

After a bit of data analyzation, confirmed a mountain tornado that occurred earlier this month across Sawtooth Mountain. This tornado was at about 11,300ft and is only the third confirmed tornado in Saguache County since 1995! #cowx

I mean, they are just midterms.

Best voice in sports nailed this one.

Python image showing visually how many different names Imelda held over a short period of time while nearing the Bahamas and threatening the Carolinas:

Ooof.

Congratulations!

Going to the Sun road... upper 30s and low clouds, in the middle of summer.

No submission from me this year, but I did always kinda like "my check cleared" day.

Hurricane Imelda: What's in a Name? The tropical system that came to be known as Hurricane Imelda transitioned through each stage of the Hurricane Center's naming process in quick succession. Let's take a look at that process.

Today's blog discusses the challenges of communication that Imelda created as it developed and repeatedly changed monikers within sight of the United States coastline.
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In honor of the impending closure of the Going to the Sun Road for the season, a reminder that it's an absolutely breathtaking drive:

*This* will be the time people remember elections going forward! Totally different than 84, 86, 88, 90, 94, 00, 02, 04, 10, 14, 16, 22, and 24!

I feel like MLB got involved here.