Richard Heatwave Berler
I love weather! CBS Duluth, MN May 23, 1976-80, KGNS Laredo, TX Feb 14, 1980-now. NCEI/NWS coop site 415060 June 10, 1985 to December 31, 2023. NWS Jefferson Award. AMS CBM#18
- Friday 5:14 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: Arctic air is moving south through the northern Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes on a course east of our area. A cool airmass reaching the Texas/Oklahoma border will stall out to our north. A cool high 40’s at dawn, mid 80’s Saturday pm.
- Friday 10:44 am: More cool air through the Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica and Bermuda, Not as cold as last system. Warm air aloft from the western Great Plains has moved south into Texas, and will bring quickly rising temperatures to near 80F mid/late afternoon.
- Friday 8:12 am: Warm dry air has arrived above our razor thin layer of chilly air, it is ~60F just a few hundred feet above the ground. This will support near 80F warmth with very low humidity, bright sunshine mid afternoon.
- Thursday 9:40 pm: Many spots in Montana and western South Dakota topped 70F today, warmer than all except far south Florida. Laredo was 71F. Average high on February 5 is 36F in Great Falls, MT and Rapid City, SD, 73F in Laredo, 77F in Miami.
- Added weak boundary on Georgia/South Carolina border.
- Thursday 3:49 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: Exceptionally warm air has moved across the Rockies into the western Great Plains, unusually cold air over the southeast Atlantic states (note temperature map). A chilly low 40’s dawn for Laredo area, 80F warmth arrives Friday afternoon.
- Thursday 8:34 am: Very warm air has become quite pronounced over all of the western U.S., and will expand southeastward into our part of Texas beginning Friday. Bright sunshine, 70ish today (70F today in western South Dakota to central Montana!). Chilly Friday dawn, 80F pm.
- Wednesday 2:49 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: An airmass has moved southeast from the Rockies into Texas. It will be our weather provider through Thursday. Mostly clear skies, low humidity, low 40’s at dawn, low 70’s Thursday afternoon.
- @ginamyhill-jones.bsky.social Fond memories when I began in Duluth, MN in 1976 was taking the Greyhound to Hay River, NWT in December, and through blowing snow across Saskatchewan. I forecasted for 32 stations of the CBC northwest Ontario network Dec 1977-Feb 1980 Went to Iqaluit in 1978. Grateful.
- Wednesday 7:42 am: A very dry airmass from the Rockies will bring plenty of sunshine with very low humidity today, thin cirrus clouds high above. Temperatures will be close to average for an early February day, low 70’s.
- My January 27 Virtual American Meteorological Society talk. I begin ~14:45 into the recording, speak for ~15 minutes plus some comment/question. Enter Berler for last name, 4JNCTR8T635 for talk ID. ams.confex.com/ams/106ANNUA...
- An argument could be made to extend the mid Mississippi Valley boundary west through Kansas...
- Tuesday 3:56 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: A dry airmass crossing from the Rockies through north and central Texas will lower temperatures by ~10F. It is not an arctic airmass, temperatures will still reach ~70F Wednesday/Thursday afternoons.
- Tuesday 8:35 am: Warm air from northern Mexico will bring 80F warmth today. A dry airmass from the Rockies will bring sunshine, low humidity, ~70F Wednesday afternoon.
- Monday 4:02 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: Warmer air has quickly returned. We have been to at least 78F with the benefit of plenty of sunshine. May reach 80F Tuesday ahead of cooler air from the Rockies, now entering the Texas panhandle.
- Monday 8:24 am: Large scale overview of polar air reaching well into the Caribbean:
- Monday 8 am: Mild air is replacing the cold air moving to the east where the entire Florida peninsula froze, 40’s into southern Cuba, front now reaching northwest Puerto Rico. Kingston, Jamaica with 44 mph gusts. Cancun reached 48F. Partly/mostly cloudy, sunnier late pm, low 70’s
- Sunday 4 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: Warmer winds are returning from the south as the cool airmass exits to our east. A thin layer of moist air at ~3,000" altitude may bring some low cloud early Monday, mixing away into scattered afternoon cumulus. Mid 40's dawn, mid 70's pm.
- Sunday 9:29 am: Curious about heavy amounts of precipitation reported with none falling at NYC area airports. Is this related to the cold temperatures impacting the sensors? I don’t remember similar wintertime issues with other locations with 10F temperatures…
- Sunday 8:16 am: We are on the west edge of the cold airmass over the eastern U.S. A thin layer of moist air at ~2,500’ altitude will bring partly to mostly cloudy skies today with high 50’s this afternoon.
- Saturday 9:21 pm: Barometer readings are falling quickly of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Far to the south, Melbourne, Florida has had snow flurries.
- Saturday 6:54 pm: Big Picture Weathermap: Cold air is plunging south into Florida south of a snowstorm over the Carolinas. The storm will move east away from land into the Atlantic. We are on west edge of the cold airmass, could touch freezing tonight (close call), 60’s Monday.
- Saturday 1:32 pm: Snow flurries now as far south as Tallahassee, Florida on south side of intensifying storm over the Carolinas (will deepen quickly as it moves offshore this evening into the Atlantic). The arctic chill will surge south through the Florida peninsula tonight.
- Worthy interview.
- Saturday 10:20 am: We are on the southwestern edge of a cold airmass plunging toward the southeastern U.S. We will be sunny and cool with high 50’s to ~60. Significant snow is occurring over the western Carolinas. Storm will intensify quickly off the North Carolina shore tonight.
- Friday 7:56 pm: Cloud deck is exiting Laredo, clear skies tonight, mid 30’s at dawn.
