Weather Nerds

[KennyPowers2]

Do any of you guys know a good site to get extended forecast information? Im talking 2-3 weeks out and I'm mostly concerned with temperature. Thanks

 

[MetEdDawg]

You looking for exact temperatures or just a general overview?

James Spann's website www.alabamawx.com is pretty good if you just want a general overview of what temps look like long term as well as the weather pattern in terms of rain, severe weather, snow, etc. He puts out two videos every day, one early morning and one late afternoon.

If you want to go super nerd, here is a website by the CPC where you can see expended temperature trends weeks or months in advance: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/forecasts/

Having a meteorology degree from MSU and having taken Dr. Wax's classes, I would fail in my duty as a College of Geoscience student if I didn't tell you that more than 5 days out is "pure magic". As far as specific temps go, you really aren't going to find that. I would look more for places that show long term expected temperature trends, and James Spann does a great job of showing that and I highly recommend it. It's a very useful 6-10 minutes in the morning and 6-10 minutes in the afternoon. He shows trends, general temperature expectations, and does a good job of explaining patterns in terms easy for most to understand. He also gives updates throughout the day as snow events or other interesting weather things take place during the day.

Here are a couple of extra links:

http://geosciences.msstate.edu/weatherlinks.htm This is our department weather links site.
http://www.alabamawx.com/?page_id=35890 This is James Spann's Weather Toolbox on his website. Has tons of extra links to things.

Hope this helps.

 

[drofdirt]

MetEdDawg is on point with the 5-day observation. Another site you may wish to consider is http://weather.unisys.com/ , especially if you like looking at graphical weather projections of the various factors that come together to generate the conditions in the atmosphere on a day-to-day basis that we experience on the surface as our weather. Good luck!

 

[KennyPowers2]

James Spann's website www.alabamawx.com is pretty good if you just want a general overview of what temps look like long term as well as the weather pattern in terms of rain, severe weather, snow, etc. He puts out two videos every day, one early morning and one late afternoon.

If you want to go super nerd, here is a website by the CPC where you can see expended temperature trends weeks or months in advance: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/forecasts/

Having a meteorology degree from MSU and having taken Dr. Wax's classes, I would fail in my duty as a College of Geoscience student if I didn't tell you that more than 5 days out is "pure magic". As far as specific temps go, you really aren't going to find that. I would look more for places that show long term expected temperature trends, and James Spann does a great job of showing that and I highly recommend it. It's a very useful 6-10 minutes in the morning and 6-10 minutes in the afternoon. He shows trends, general temperature expectations, and does a good job of explaining patterns in terms easy for most to understand. He also gives updates throughout the day as snow events or other interesting weather things take place during the day.

Here are a couple of extra links:

http://geosciences.msstate.edu/weatherlinks.htm This is our department weather links site.
http://www.alabamawx.com/?page_id=35890 This is James Spann's Weather Toolbox on his website. Has tons of extra links to things.

Hope this helps.

Honestly I'm watching the temperature because I'm strategically planning how I'm gonna win a bass tournament on Feb 9th. Air temperature is going to determine water temperature which will either put the bass on bed or hold them off. I for one need the water temp to be below 64 degrees for feb 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th. I am in south ms.

 

[WrapItDog]

Since you brought up bass fishing. Did you see the 17+LB bass that was caught at Davis Lake a couple of weeks ago.

http://djournal.com/view/full_story...-s-catch-pushes-state-record?instance=popular

 

[State82]

I really can't see any mid 60's water temps in the next few weeks, even in the southern parts of the state. I would think pre-spawn patterns, if that. Lake or riverine waters?