December 10, 2014: Have you signed up for the AWARE emails? I have been sending these out since 2003. Emails are sent out before high impact weather events. This is NOT the same as the blog updates (that you can also sign up for on the right hand side of the blog posts - you can also sign up for the blog posts here on Facebook). NOTE: If you sign up for the AWARE emails YOU MUST reply to the confirmation email sent to your inbox IMMEDIATELY after you sign up. If you do not respond to the confirmation email then you will not be added by the system. I will repeat that below :) 1. I try to send these emails out several days in advance of a high impact weather event. 2. I sometimes will send 1 email per day leading up to a high impact weather event. 3. I do not send out watches and warnings. (You should own a NOAA Weather Radio and weather APP for your watches and warnings) 4. These emails should be used as a Heads Up Thousands of you have already signed up for the emails. But, I know many of you may not even be aware of them. If you sign up for the emails YOU MUST reply to the confirmation email sent to your inbox IMMEDIATELY after you sign up. If you do not respond to the confirmation email then you will not be added by the system. I use a company called Vertical Response to send out my emails. They are very picky about the confirmation email. Again, if you do not reply to the confirmation email then there is no way for me to add you to the list. Their rules. Examples of what you might read in the AWARE emails... These are PAST/OLD emails Before the November 17, 2013 Paducah and Brookport tornadoes... You would have read (AGAIN THIS IS AN EXAMPLE FROM NOVEMBER 2013) The current forecast projections indicate that a line of thunderstorms and/or super-cells will form later this afternoon over parts of Indiana and Illinois (perhaps as far southwest as eastern Missouri). These storms then would continue to develop and eventually form a line of thunderstorms. Some questions remain as to how far south and west this line will develop. Certainty is higher over Indiana and Illinois vs far southeast Missouri and far western Kentucky. Confidence rises as you move further east in west Kentucky (say Kentucky Lake to Evansville, Indiana and then eastward. Bottom line – pay attention to severe weather watches and warnings today. The atmosphere is unusually primed for tornadoes. The potential exists for a few tornadoes to become strong and long lived. -------------------- END of that example I also send emails out before winter weather events. Here is an example from last December Confidence in this forecast: Medium confidence. Remember that potential does not always make reality. Winter storms are notoriously tricky to forecast. Expect a wide range of weather conditions across our region. Some areas will remain rain longer than other areas. Subject: Rain will spread into the area on Thursday afternoon. Rain will change to freezing rain, sleet, and snow on Thursday afternoon and Thursday night. Precipitation will continue into Friday. Another winter weather system is possible Saturday night and Sunday. Significant accumulations of ice may occur over portions of the Tennessee and/or Ohio Valleys. The exact placement of the front will determine where precipitation falls and the amounts. Forecasters are struggling with where to place the 32 degree line. That 32 degree line will obviously make all the difference in who ends up with the greatest amount of freezing rain. I do believe that a damaging ice storm is possible later this week. Moderate to heavy ice accumulation could bring down tree limbs and power lines. Bitterly cold air will mean lows in the teens both Saturday and Sunday morning. Single digits are possible in areas that have snow on the ground. Monday morning will also be bitterly cold. ---------- End of that example Those are just two examples of dozens of emails sent out since 2003. The emails were started after the deadly Tri-County tornado that swept through Pulaski, Massac, and Pope Counties on May 6, 2003. To sign up for these emails (and remember you must respond to the confirmation email sent to your inbox) visit this page below weatherobservatory/newsletter.htm
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:49:43 +0000
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