March Update: Winter 2016-2017 has officially gone down in the record books as warmest on record (along with the month of February) and the Spring severe weather season is now underway as March roared in loudly. A tornado/severe weather outbreak unfolded from February 28 - March 1st leaving a trail of damage across every state in the Local 6 area (KY, IL, TN, MO). It was exactly 5 years to the date and hour that we were covering a tornado ravaging Harrisburg, IL and would later hear of its EF4 rating. The same night 5 years later another violent EF4 tornado in Perryville, MO and an EF3 in Crossville, IL from the same parent storm. One of the main reasons I wrote this particular post is to give us an idea of what we can expect for Spring/Summer 2017. Looking back through historical data it was pretty clear that 2012 was a correlation too close to ignore and might give us the best insight to what may come this season. A weak La Nina episode continues dissolve and a trend toward a
The views and expressions of Meteorologist and Storm Specialist Jennifer Rukavina in Paducah, KY.