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November 25, 2008 4:42 PM Subscribe
I miss Tom Skilling. I'm looking for some good regional weather blogs, specifically for Los Angeles.
I grew up in central Illinois idolizing WGN's meteorolgist-extraordinaire Tom Skilling. The weather readers in Los Angeles pale in comparison, and I can't find any other good sources of weather discussion, save for raw NOAA data.
But it's more than just current data that I'm looking for, I'm also looking for either a discussion, or an explanation, of basic weather patterns here. I grew up just knowing that storm systems move from west to east. That's it. If they were moving north or south, you were in the path of a rotating system, and you'd better head to the basement. But I was watching the radar in LA today (it's actually supposed to rain), the rain is just casually moving south to north. And that's apparently normal.
I grew up in central Illinois idolizing WGN's meteorolgist-extraordinaire Tom Skilling. The weather readers in Los Angeles pale in comparison, and I can't find any other good sources of weather discussion, save for raw NOAA data.
But it's more than just current data that I'm looking for, I'm also looking for either a discussion, or an explanation, of basic weather patterns here. I grew up just knowing that storm systems move from west to east. That's it. If they were moving north or south, you were in the path of a rotating system, and you'd better head to the basement. But I was watching the radar in LA today (it's actually supposed to rain), the rain is just casually moving south to north. And that's apparently normal.
Response by poster: Right, but who's the Tom Skilling of LA? I already know the one in Chicago...
posted by hwyengr at 5:43 PM on November 25, 2008
posted by hwyengr at 5:43 PM on November 25, 2008
Well, a good place to start is the NWS "forecast discussion", which comes out several times a day and provides a more technical overview of what's going on. One site that has it for your area is here.
posted by crapmatic at 6:04 PM on November 25, 2008
posted by crapmatic at 6:04 PM on November 25, 2008
I can't help you with your larger question, but I can tell you that the jet stream has shifted so far south in the last few days that it's curling under Los Angeles and heading NE, hence the storms moving south to north. A map.
posted by incessant at 11:41 PM on November 25, 2008
posted by incessant at 11:41 PM on November 25, 2008
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posted by timsteil at 5:39 PM on November 25, 2008