Wx Learner

New post up on the blog! 👇👇

Why Dew Point Tells You More Than Humidity - Wx Learner You check your phone and it gives you a number for the humidity. It doesn't look that bad. Then you step outside and it feels like you can drink the air. What happened?

My latest blog post

Boundaries are a big influence in weather, especially in NOLA. I wrote a quick explanation. Link in comments.

Update:

I am fully moved and settling in down in NOLA. I am sorry to inform all of you that I won't be forecasting for Erie. At least not right now, learning the weather down here is tough and I am dedicating my energy to that.

I will still post my blog articles here if you want to follow along.

Thanks for all the support!!

There was a severe weather outbreak yesterday. I wrote a recap:

Severe Weather Recap: April 17 Across the Nation — Wx Learner Last night was the kind of night where radar in half the country was worth watching. I stayed up way too late flipping between radar scans and storm chaser streams on YouTube, and honestly it was one of those nights where every few minutes something new was happening somewhere else. This was not som...

2026 hurricane names: The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season starts in just 50 days. Here are the 21 names that meteorologists will use for storms. https://bit.ly/4c2CL3G

Wind Shear can make or break a storm, but what exactly is it?
I wrote about it:
https://www.nolawx.com/wxlearner/the-wx-journal/what-is-wind-shear-and-why-does-it-matter-so-much

Watching baseball and the radar.

In the spring, the radar really lights up. What is going on in the atmosphere? I wrote about it:
https://wxlearner.com/the-wx-journal/why-do-severe-storms-happen-so-much-in-the-spring