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Who’s watching this in 2024?

Insightful as always!

Was there a part 2?

Rich Thompson explains these various concepts -of varying degrees of difficulty- very nicely! I love this series.

Another fantastic job!

I'm learning a ton from this series. Thank you!

Can anyone actively watching this series please come back to this video and tell me which one and at about which time Rich goes over mesoscale/local features and how they make forecasting finnicky? Thanks.

This is such a fantastic lecture series! Watching it again ahead of storm season 2022!

I absolutely love this lecture series! It really lays down the basics and helps you to understand them. Rewatching them all this winter in preparation for springtime 2022 severe weather forecasting.

Speaking of Illinois you always chase a warm front in Illinois no matter what lol

I should have done my homework

My left ear learned a lot lol 😂

QUESTION for Anyone? Does anyone know where meteorological software(s) & gear for measuring can be obtained? Things that would be helpful in a car as a newbie enters the field of spotting? I've already got a high end laptop ..... that might be all I need but please let me know? thank you for this video

one thing i never understood was the EF scale..... and how it has to destroy something to be considered a strong tornado isnt that "putting the cart before the horse"... sorta? . like.... you may have 300mph wind speeds..... but unless it hits a farm house (or a pop center).... its an EF0 at least to my LIMITED understanding . TO ME!, that seems like a TON of data is overlooked..... because "its just an EF0" . and your saying "these conditions make for higher % of EF4+" but if the scale is based in damage..... VS measured wind speeds how can you predict how strong the TOR will be??? . i do think the EF scale has its uses..... to the normal person, they can look up the EF scale, and see how much damage they can expect . but to a forecaster..... the EF scale doesnt mean anything you may have the PERFECT conditions.... you know its going to be an F 4 or 5..... . HOWEVER!...... if it hits a city....EF5 if it just hits a wheat field....EF0 . ive seen examples of noodles rated at EF2..... that had radar wind speeds of an EF5 and you can look at how it sucked up crops and dirt.... and tell it was VERY strong but because it didnt hit a building..... its an EF 1 or 2 . idk.... that just doesnt make sense to me . like..... you crash your car at 110mph...... drunk driving but you missed the school bus.... its a minor crash, and the cops dont measure your blood to booze ratio (BAC) you might spend 1 night in jail, and loose your license for 10 days . yet you hit a school bus at 5mph..... and its a major crash you were completely sober.... but the cops sentence you to death.... . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TLDR . what im trying to say is.... . how can you forecast "sig tor....EF4+"..... when you KNOW its going to have 270kt+ winds (if thats possible to predict...looks like it SORTA is) when you also think its not going to hit a pop center? . would you have to forecast it as a possible EF0/1? . also..... in NE montana, we get 50-60 mph winds, gusts to 70 or 75mph a few times during the summer..... even with no storms nearby yet, not even a roof shingle gets blown off . however, in other places (with way more strict building codes...EX Cali)..... homes get blown off their foundations in a 70 mph wind my guess is that the building codes focus more on earth quakes....VS high plains winds . so, i know the EF scale looks at the "average" building . but would that mean the EXACT SAME tornado in NE MT would be rated weaker on the EF scale.... than if it happened in cali (or similar states)??? .

5:59 the crazy part..... NE montana has no wind.....thats UNHEARD OF! . could it be that Noodle outbreaks are caused by NE MT not having any wind? i sure think so ;) . but seriously.... in 365 days.... glasgow MT.... my home town.... might get 20 days where the wind blows under 5 mph . its kinda a joke around here when you see a forecast of really nice weather..... AND no wind you know the forecaster was probably hung-over that day..... and messed up the forecast . because instead of "85, sunny, 10% clouds, winds light" its probably gonna snow.... in mid July..... . and yes.... its snowed EVERY month in NE MT..... besides August.... (iirc) in August.... its just 105F every day.... and the wind is blowing 55mph, gusts to 70 . instead of wind chill..... we have wind heat the wind makes it feel hotter..... some how........................... . PS i dont understand how houses get blown off their foundation in 80 mph winds (in states like cali, NY, etc) MTs building codes are not as strict as cali/NY . but we get 50-60mph sustained, gusts to 70-80........almost every other week in the summer . i had to rescue my friends off fort peck lake...... when the wind went from ~5mph to 75 SUSTAINED! . was literally calm all day..... then, as i was in my yard raking up dog poo..... WOOSH.... out of the blue, huge winds . the lake instantly started to white cap..... . anyway... my friends 5HP outboard was pointed into the wind.... full throttle....and was moving backwards they got pushed into the rocks on the face of the dam, and their little fishing boat started to sink . got in my car.... drove to the dam.... and gave them a ride back to my house to wait out the winds the boat ended up being smashed into bits.... largest piece was the motor it self (which snapped off the lower unit) . HOWEVER IIRC..... again.... IIRC.... KGGW did forecast the wind would pick up and issued a lake wind ADV for like 6pm..... and said it would ramp up quickly . but they didnt think it would LITERALLY go from "light and variable" to sustained 75mph winds.... in about 2 seconds . still one of the craziest weather events ive witnessed

I agree with other comments, knowledge in this series of lectures is incredible. I am from Poland, i knew very little before watching this and after first watch I still knew almost nothing (you know, this is pretty high level of entry, especially if youre not studying meteorology and have some kind of a language barrier for specialised terms), but It was already so interesting and captivating that i was determined to find out more. And after several months, I'm watching this whole series again, with much bigger knowledge, ale all this stuff starts coming together... Like for example soundings analysis - it was so exciting to actually see incredible conditions visible on those outbreaks for myself instead of Rich assuring me they are good ;) I'm just really sad that I have much less opportunities to put that in use (although we have some severe weather in Poland as well). Thanks again!

I seriously cannot thank whomever was involved for putting this up enough. The fact that Rich took the time to share his lifetime of knowledge like this is just incredible. I've learned stuff that I'll have for my entire life, and when someone takes time to share their knowledge with me I value that above all else. I know I'm a nobody in the scheme of things, but thank you.

Could you briefly explain the air mass modification that occurred over the gulf? 16:30 in the video

Do American meteorologists actually still use the fahrenheit temperature scale?

Amazing!!!!!

this playlist will hopefully provide a nice little review for me. easy to forget the finer points of QG, tornadogensis eqns, etc.

What is the name of the software he is referencing at 33:19?

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I know this is late to ask a question but when you are talking (26-27 mins in)about the case study of 4/15/12 you mention that the moist layer in Brownsville is not that deep because mixing was limited because the airmass moving offshore was that cold. I am confused since there is SW flow advecting moisture inland and a tropical airmass inland as well. Could you explain what you airmass is moving offshore. Maybe just a brain cramp..thx

The storm that they're talking about on April 8th (the day after this was filmed and the subject of most of the first part of the video) dropped a tornado in my back yard, literally. EF-1. Rich didn't predict that. ;)

This kind of makes me wonder if cloud seeding in or near the RFD could weaken, or destroy, a very strong tornado? Seeding would cause more rain, which would bring more cool/cold air down from higher-up in the storm, ultimately cutting off the storm's energy. We know that RFD which is too cold can kill a tornado. As Rich said, it worked to the disadvantage, possibly, in the El Reno tornado, the rainy, cooler air from the storm following the El Reno storm may have caused its erratic motion and forward surges, but if there was a way to weaken a very strong EF-5 tornado, it's certainly something that should be looked into. It probably wouldn't make a lot of difference in relatively short-track tornadoes because getting a plane up there would be too slow, but in a long-track, EF-4 or EF-5, or a strong tornado moving toward a major city, it could potentially save a lot of lives. Of course I don't know anything about what it would be like to fly that close to a supercell, it might not even be possible.

Hey shout out to the guy checking his Facebook at 18:40 lol. Jokes aside: I love this series. LOVE it.

Leigh Orf has a youtube channel and presentation, here on youtube, that will help people understand the part around 45:00-50:00. He has a very detailed computer model that he built and he releases squibs in both the forward flank and in the rear flank and you can see the vorticity changing with height. You can also see the vorticity in the forward flank of the supercell when he shows a top-down view of the temperature and pressure. It's really a fantastic presentation. I don't know if Rich uses that later on, I'm only on class 4, but if he ever does this again, he should definitely use that model to drive home some of the things he's saying, that way people could actually SEE it happen and not have to try to imagine it in their mind.

Thanks for making all these classes available online.

Thank you so much for posting this series!

Rich Thompson for president! Thanks for making this information readily available!

Pretty poor audio quality, and not because it's mono. Some of the words were just completely gone.

FYI, SREF will go from 21 members + mean to 27 members + mean soon.

Where can I find the water vapor map shown in the beginning? It looks like water vapor + 500mb vort or 500mb heights, speed, vort? Not sure?

Thank you for this.

Starts at 11:16

Nice work. Could you do 5/31/1985 for the NE US folks?

What are typical w speeds just ahead of a dry line and also just ahead of a cold front?

thanks! Now my right ear knows a heck of lot more about tornadoes than my left ear!

Really enjoyed watching this. Quick question though, is this only in mono? It was weird using a headset to listen to this.

OU SCAMS #torcast I am a little curios just how upper level vorticity is measured/calculated? It obviously plays a big role in cyclonegenesis, but how is it determined? How can I view vorticity through upper air charts, instead of just looking at the models? Thanks! --Grant

Interesting but valuable information, enjoying these workshops. Keep it up!

great, looking forwards to the next sessions. Would appreciate a sound quality fix, Thompson is inaudible sometimes.

Great simple review of basic meteorology. Really enjoyed the hodograph explanation, a lot more straightforward than I remember from school! Thank you!

it starts at 19 minutes for some reason

This video had no sound. Only shoes for 2 hours a white board about if you have questions. Where is actual video??

Thank you very much for this!