Haiti Help

Christian Reformed World Relief Committee is helping people in Haiti!

You can help relief efforts in Haiti by donating to the CRWRC.

Donate $5.00 by texting "support crwrchaiti" to 20222 or donate $10.00 by texting "crwrc haiti" to 20222. You can also donate online by clicking HERE

American Red Cross helping the people of Haiti!

You can help relief efforts in Haiti by donating to the American Red Cross.

Donate $10 to the American Red Cross by texting "HAITI" to 90999. You can also donate to the International Response Fund by visiting the ARC HERE



Please help the people of Haiti in any way you can. No matter how small or large the donation you are helping people in need.

FCST 1-22-10 Through 1-24-10

Currently we are sitting at the calm before the storm. This storm is a very interesting one as our temperatures are sitting above normal for mid January temps. There is a low pressure system brewing off in E CO right now that is heading our way and will be centered over E SD by tonight. This low pressure system will be pulling upper level moisture and allowing that moisture to condense into rain ahead of the system. This low will be moving right along with a cold front so behind the low there will be colder air that will change the precip chance to a mix of snow/rain instead of what will be falling infront of the low which will be rain. At 9:00AM 1-22-10 this is what the radar/surface is looking like. You can see the counter clockwise wind already even when this low is still in CO. That usually means it's going to be quite strong. I'm calling for 0.2" of ice and 3" of snow in RV IA. 

The Blue and green are probabilities of ice - (Green = .25" or greater - 40%-60%) (Blue = .25" or greater - 10%-39%) Another cool thing is the light brown is a convective outlook issued from the Storm Prediction Center, we are in a low probability which is unusual for Janurary, could mean some convection leading to T-storms around our southern neighbors. Hope they have fun watching that unfold for them while we are sitting up here "iced in" HAHA.

Crazy January Weather

First to start out locally, this week we are looking at a week with solid precipitation, starting tonight with freezing rain on into Thursday. Then Th into Th night we are looking at snow, up to 2". It's not much but with the 40" we've already had and with the freezing rain that will create a blanket of ice we are looking at a pretty serious situation.

Next we go to CA, there are a number of systems brewing in the Pacific as the Polar & Subtropical Jets are closing in on each other in the upper Pacific. These systems are creating rare severe storms (El Nino systems) over the state of CA. They are experiencing flooding, severe T-storms, water spouts, tornado warnings, winter weather advisories, and cloud to ground lightning at the same time.

Last but not least AR & LA. Later on in the week the systems that have impacted CA are moving on to the mid south region and going to create some severe storms. Any storms during this time frame will tend to be elevated; that is, they will develop over a stable layer near the ground (updrafts feeding the storms will not be surface based). This greatly reduces the odds of damaging winds or tornadoes. They will however create  heavy rain in some areas and a lot of lightning. The CAPE is only supposed to be 750 J/Kg  (very low considering most tornado potential CAPE should be at 2000+) so tornado potential is almost non existent.