National Overview The northward push of migrants east of the Rockies continued in earnest last night. More Trans- and Circum-Gulf migrants moved up through Texas, and Caribbean migrants on strong east winds came into the Florida Keys and western peninsula this morning, while some will arrive in the panhandle and points farther west later today. […]

National Overview Another night of heavy migration across the U.S. east of the Rockies last night and into this morning! If you’ve been reading over the last few days, you know about this frontal boundary that keeps pushing north and allowing more birds to make their way into the northern reaches of the country. Well, […]

National Overview The title of this post refers mainly to the two focal areas of my regular forecasts, the Upper Midwest and the Mid Atlantic. Both of these areas have been waiting for the big wave to eventually hit, and now I think it’s safe to say that the first one has crashed on our […]

National Overview Happy May Day! Two fronts with their associated surface lows continue to move north and east across the region. The boundaries of these marked the northern extent of the heavy migration last night as you can see below (just trace the line of storms from south Texas through the Plains, up the west […]

National Overview UPDATE: The NCAR radar feeds are back online now, so here they are with my original writeup from this morning. I guess we’ll have to wait for the NCAR folks to get into the office this morning, because the radar is STILL failing to be posted to their site. I thought that after […]