Published on: December 31, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Frightening night in the Jackson MS area. JB is doing a great job keeping everyone informed.
I wanted to post this radar capture of what might be a possible debris ball showing up on the WSR-88D radar from Jackson. The storm is passing just south of Brandon. It will cross I-20 west of Forest shortly.
A debris ball is a round area of high reflectivity on Doppler radar at the end of a hook echo. It can indicate large items in the air, typically debris like trees, insulation, parts of houses, etc.
September 20, 2026 at 7:14 AM
We have to endure a few more days of summer-like weather here in Alabama before a pattern change to cooler and drier weather occurs later this week. The upper-level ridge responsible for our extended hot temperatures will keep its influence over the Southeast through Tuesday, then upper-level troughing from the northeast will dig into the Southeast, pushing a cold front through the region Tuesday into Wednesday. Continue reading
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September 19, 2026 at 7:12 AM
The weather over the next week will be slightly rainier than it has been recently, and although this weekend and early next week will be hot, we’ll start to see a cooling trend toward the end of next week. Higher rain chances this weekend are due to an upper-low in the Gulf increasing moisture and the upper-level ridge moving westward some. The “cooldown” next week is thanks to an upper-level trough that will dig into the Southeast. Continue reading
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