Here is the likelihood of flash flooding between now and 8 am Monday.
Where the tornado threat is greatest.
Updated watches and warnings as of 6:40pm:
As of 10:25am, here is the flood threat area we've been forecasting for the past week.
This includes Dallas, Sulfur Springs, Isabel, Texarkana and Arkadelphia.
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| Dockum Sit-In Memorial |
Two of the most important milestones in the civil rights movement occurred in Kansas. They were Brown v Board of Education in Topeka and the Dockum Sit-In in Wichita. The former is well known and well documented. The latter was the first civil rights sit-in but is barely known nationally. I've often wondered if that was because it was both non-violent and successful. Not only were the Dockum Rexall Drug Stores in Wichita opened to blacks, the entire Rexall Chain (a big deal in that era) in Kansas desegregated. I highly recommend this piece on the sit-in.
The building that contained the lunch counter is pictured above. The memorial is in a "pocket park" a few steps to the west. Next time you are in Wichita, it is well worth a visit.
The great news from NASA continues: The world continues to green.
The Sahara Desert has shrunk by 8% over the last 30 years. The bottom line? More food for a hungry world.
The flood threat continues in the Mid-South region. This is the radar at 9:45am.
Because of COVID, we are just getting a chance to meet our new grandson. Blogging may be less frequent than usual the next few days. I invite you to scroll down because there is a great deal of content the last week.
I grew up in a Ford family. My grandfather, father, and brothers and sisters were part of my family of Ford dealers. Ford was one of our major clients at AccuWeather Enterprise Solutions. I was very happy with my Taurus sedans. Unfortunately, Ford decided to stop making sedans so I shopped elsewhere. After test driving cars all over Wichita, I decided to purchase the Genesis.
Now, to answer the questions I have been asked, in no order,
This data is for the week ending January 19. While some rain occurred, the drought west of the Continental Divide continues with only slight improvement. Unfortunately, below normal precipitation is expected in the West the next seven days.
Extremely wet conditions continue from Delaware to the Carolinas and then west to the Ark-La-Tex region. I'm sorry to report that forecast rainfall continues to be heavy over the next five days and likely beyond.
The Wall Street Journal used to know better than this.
We being told there are more virulent versions of the coronavirus threatening to spread across the United States. The best way to damp them down is with vaccinations but the effort continues to badly stumble. Per NBC News:
Pharmacists at Inova Health, one of the largest hospital systems in the Washington, D.C., area, say they started noticing significant amounts of leftover vaccine in almost every vial, even after they used the additional sixth doses in Pfizer's vials. But because of the FDA's regulations, they are being forced to throw out any extra vaccine.
"It's heartbreaking for us," Massiah-White said. "We've had multiple team members that rotate through here, and at least daily somebody says, 'Why can't we pool the waste?'
The Inova pharmacists did an experiment, taking 100 vials that had residual vaccine. Eighty of them had significant amounts left over. The pharmacists found that with the vaccine left in the 80 vials, they could make 40 additional full doses. That meant that on a typical vaccination day, when the hospital will typically give more than 4,000 shots, it could give an additional 400 vaccination shots with the same supply.
"Ultimately, when there are enough vaccines, wasting some at the bottom won't matter," Jones said. "But right now, we are millions of doses short. So a few extra doses from each set of vials will make a difference in literally hundreds of people a day."
This exchange sums up the situation well.
The forecasts continue to indicate excessive rainfall in the already wet Southeast.
Seven Day Forecast
15-Day Forecast
It is hilarious to me that Oprah, who has spent a great team of time over the years instructing us about cutting our carbon footprints. Here is just one example from her magazine.
The hypothermia death toll continues to mount.
Today is the 50th anniversary of the worst blizzard in the history of Wichita, Amarillo, Dodge City, Woodward and a number of other Great Plains' cities. I have an article for meteorologists in the current issue of the National Weather Association's newsletter.
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| For two weeks, the Air National Guard in three states frantically dropped hay to stranded cattle |
This afternoon is the 50th anniversary of what some call the 6th worst tornado outbreak in U.S. history.
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Now, John "I'm Too Good to Fly Commercial" Kerry is telling us the Texas cold was caused by global warming and that we just have nine years to save the planet. The entire piece, including his video, is here.
Given his Alaskan-sized carbon footprint, his yachts (yes, plural), his multiple homes, John Kerry lecturing us about Co2 gets this week's "Sunday Fun."
If you'd like to get a taste of the book, you can read the first chapter at no cost, no obligation and no credit card number, here. It is the first chapter.
If you would like to know more about the book or to purchase Warnings: The True Story of How Science Tamed the Weather just click on the turquoise link.
Evidently, sophisticated California doesn't know that calling a woman with a degree in meteorology is not a "weather girl." Nor, is it a "weather woman." Like a male with a meteorology degree, that person is a meteorologist.
I'm getting increasingly concerned about the potential for major flooding in the Southeast
The Palmer Drought Index (below) shows shows extremely wet conditions from eastern Oklahoma to 
Some terrific news today in the fight against coronavirus.
If you are a certain age, you remember the anti-littering campaign, Don't Mess With Texas. Well, as we learn more and more about the simultaneous catastrophe and fiasco of the past six days, we can conclude that Texans can mess up Texas without any help from those of us in the other 49 states.
I wrote about the organized campaign to make you think the collapse of wind power as the wet and extremely cold weather was a trivial concern, here. Since then, two important pieces have been published that shed light on what will likely be (when all costs are tabulated) among the top five natural disasters in the history of our nation:
