Easily visible with the naked eye in Elgin, South Carolina right now 😍

Vibrant northern lights display over Lake Murray this evening. Photo: Bryan Sharpe

Newberry County (South Carolina) Sheriff explains why he sounded the tornado sirens for a severe thunderstorm warning on Saturday. Questioning every NWS decision because Helene went worse than you expected isn't a good way to operate, Lee.

As things stand tonight, I think the coast and the Pee Dee region have the highest chance of experiencing tropical impacts (wind, rain, tornadoes) from future Imelda. Timing looks to be Monday-Tuesday next week.

My alma mater, the University of Nebraska, has proposed eliminating the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. This department provides the only undergraduate meteorology degree program in all of Nebraska. nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/09/13/u...

Another fun day on X

Erin is on track to become a hurricane tomorrow, then track east of the U.S. next week. wach.com/weather/hurr...

Can't wait for another whack job to try this on a NEXRAD

Highly recommend you give this a read theeyewall.substack.com/p/making-sen...

SPC’s severe weather database is now QC’ed and updated for all of 2024. It was quite the year, coming in 2nd place for number of confirmed tornadoes since 1950, trailing the prolific 2004 season and overtaking the historic 2011 season. 2024 did see the most Sig Wind (65+ kt) reports since 1955.

The research arm will be replaced with John's Weather Forecasting Stone.

National Weather Service employees were encouraged to take early retirements at an all-hands meeting Thursday. The union believes as many as 1,000 could leave in the coming months - out of a workforce of just over 4,000. With @weathersullivan.bsky.social (gift): www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Pretty serious situation developing in Upstate South Carolina this evening. Residents along nearly 100 roads in Greenville and Pickens Counties are under mandatory evacuations due to the ongoing Table Rock Fire Complex. It's 0% contained, and more elevated fire danger is expected tomorrow.

Of note for South Carolina: "An EF-1 tornado in Cordova, South Carolina is now the widest documented tornado (1,100 yards) in the entire U.S. tropical cyclone tornado database, which goes back to 1995."

I'm happy to report the new Jason Isbell album is #good

A multi-day severe weather outbreak is likely for late this week from the Mississippi River Valley to the east coast.

Got word from a broadcast meteorologist buddy in Oregon that management is forcing them to show a 14 day forecast because a consultant thinks it's a good idea. TV consultants have a lot of big ideas - because they wouldn't have a job if they didn't - and they're mostly bad.

Of all the things that are pissing me off today, this is the part that's pissing me off the most.

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

Bad, bad timing and bad, bad look from Accu on this. The old rules no longer apply. We're either in this together to fight on behalf of NOAA or we're intentionally putting our own self-interest first, consequences be damned. Sorry, but I'm not sorry.

*Whispers* All of these AMG mets should take the severance and leave anyway www.wtva.com/news/local/w...

Who wants to see an airboat in snow?? (Video from Chase Businelle on Twitter)

It's gonna snow. Back to you.

Here's what I'm fairly comfortable saying at this point: 🔵Potential snow or wintry mix would move through Tuesday afternoon through Tuesday night 🔵 Snow is the most likely precipitation type for the Midlands 🔵 Wintry precipitation will be most likely south of I-20

Another winter storm next week? It's possible. wach.com/weather/skyw...

A Hall-of-Fame snow forecast for Mt. Marcus Baker.

This is the general idea of what we are expecting late this week. A Gulf low moves toward South Carolina and brings a lot of moisture with it. I think temperatures aloft will be above freezing in the Midlands, so snow is unlikely locally. I'm not ruling out ice though.

What I know: - Friday and Monday are going to be windy - Sunday night and Monday morning will likely be rainy - Most of next week is going to be about as cold as it gets around here

Sunday is a Weather Warn Day for the threat of severe thunderstorms from the late morning through the afternoon. There's some uncertainty if all the severe ingredients will come together at the same time. If they line up, damaging wind gusts and a tornado or two will be possible.

Stuck in the 40s on Friday thanks to cold air damming.

The Christmas Miracle Snow Storm has been canceled. I am shocked.

The view below and the satellite image above

The area that created the #earthquake in N California is a transform boundary, meaning the two plates are moving horizontally against each other. These regions do not produce the extreme tsunamis that subduction zones do, but if you are in the #tsunami warning you need to move away from shore.

Just bought a shirt from Publix. My transition to a middle aged man is complete.

We have a shot at a dusting of snow along the SC-NC border tonight. Perhaps a few flurries around Columbia, but nothing that will cause any trouble.

I - and pretty much everyone else - refers to central South Carolina as the Midlands. Karen doesn't like it. So I'm going to keep doing it.

Hey so next week looks kind of cold.

New study finds climate change boosted maximum wind speeds for more than 80% of Atlantic hurricanes from 2019-2023, by an average of 19 mph. wach.com/news/local/c...

If you're cold, they're cold. Bring them inside.

The current scene at the top of Beech Mountain Resort

The early outlook for Thanksgiving around the region favors rain to the west and dry weather near the coast.

I love how much Sean McDonough HATES officials

My 6-year-olds soccer game was just cancelled because parents and coaches were yelling at each other. Good work, everyone.

Early advice for next Thursday and Friday: Buy some chapstick.

The content you definitely didn't follow me for but are getting anyway. My short reviews of famous movies I'm finally getting around to seeing. First up... A Few Good Men: ★★★★½ Tom Cruise Tom Cruised very hard in this film. Also, I'm going to have nightmares of Colonel Jessup screaming at me.

By my count, there are still 34 road closures in Orangeburg and Calhoun Counties, SC from last week's floods. Many of these are washed out roads.

NWS Greenville-Spartanburg released their wind assessment from Hurricane Helene today. Here's how that compares to NWS Columbia's assessment. Gusts up to 100 mph in the Carolinas from a Gulf landfall are extremely rare.

I don't know exactly what's going to happen next week, but I know it's going to be weird.

The fact a police officer reported this is...something...

The 1st 10 days of November have by far been the warmest on record for Columbia.