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Migrants head north and begin the next big wave
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 […]
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Heavy migration, fallout potential in Great Plains (UPDATE: RADAR BACK ONLINE!)
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 […]
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More migration into the south (radar restored!)
National Overview UPDATED: The radar feed went back up this morning but it looks like all the data prior to 2am was dropped, so here are the loops from 2am – 5am Central Time. The good news is that things should be back to normal for tomorrow’s post. You can still check out the loop […]
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The southern half of the U.S. continues to stack the deck with new migrants
National Overview With this cold-warm-stationary front draped across the country, the bulk of heavy migration east of the Rockies continues to be concentrated in the southern half of the U.S. Heavy trans-Gulf and circum-Gulf migration continued from yesterday afternoon through early this morning across the entire Gulf Coast from Texas to the western Florida panhandle. […]
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Birds pouring into the south with some movement up through the Plains and Midwest
National Overview The big story for last night lies along the Gulf Coast, so I’m just sum that up in a few words before moving on: GET READY. With this latest trans-Gulf and circum-Gulf flight we should expect many new Neotropical migrants to be making their way into the continental U.S. which will eventually mean […]