Rain For TheWeekend

Submitted by Allison Chinchar, Meteorologist

Friday, May 17th, 2013, 6:01am

Mostly cloudy skies for today with a few isolated thundershowers, mainly for the northern half of the state. Winds from the SW between 5-10mph. High temperatures will be in the low to mid 80s.

Tonight, other than a few isolated showers, we will have mostly cloudy skies and mild overnight low temperatures in the low to mid 60s.

Saturday will an increase in rain chances, otherwise mostly cloudy skies. High temperatures will be slightly cooler in the upper 70s to low 80s. Winds will be from the southwest around 5-10mph, gusting up to 15mph.

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Atlanta Weather | Friday Forecast

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 7:11pm

Tonight - Partly cloudy skies with overnight lows in the lower 60's. Winds will be light from the south at 10-16.

Tomorrow - Partly cloudy skies with daytime highs in the lower 80's, chance of a few shower is around 20%

Saturday - Mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of showers, highs will be in the 80's.

Sunday - Mostly cloudy with a 30% chance of showers, highs will be in the 80's.

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Preliminary Tornado Survey From Texas

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 3:47pm

This incredible tornado video is from just outside of Milsap, TX and is one of the first of 13 tornadoes that touched down across N Texas yesterday evening! This is a blog about what the initial ratings are and why I think that the Cleburne tornado might have been stronger than the Granbury tornado!

As of right now, the National Weather Service out of For Worth, TX has conducted its survey and has the following:

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX

539 PM CDT THU MAY 16 2013

...NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 05/15/2013 TORNADO EVENT...

...UPDATED TO INCLUDE AN EF-1 TORNADO IN ENNIS. ALSO UPDATED

INFORMATION ON THE MILLSAP...LAKE AMON G. CARTER...HAMILTON COUNTY

AND CRESSON TORNADOES...

THIS INFORMATION IS CONSIDERED VERY PRELIMINARY. SURVEY TEAMS WERE

SENT TO JOHNSON COUNTY...HOOD COUNTY...PARKER COUNTY...ELLIS COUNTY

Cleburne had an amazing velocity couplet!

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Atlanta Weather | Deadly Texas Tornadoes

Submitted by Chesley McNeil, Meteorologist

Thursday, May 16th, 2013, 7:10am

Atlanta Weather | Deadly Texas Tornadoes

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Atlanta Weather | Thursday Forecast

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 7:22pm

Short Term

High pressure to the south will keep giving us SW winds and warming temps will continue to warm us up. At the same time we will see an increase in the humidity and a slim chance of rain as we head into the weekend.

The Weekend

It does appear that there will be an increase in the chance of shower and a few t-storms as we head into the weekend. The best chance of rain will be Saturday in the late afternoon.

I AM LOOKING FOR STORM SPOTTERS!!!

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Massive X-Class Solar Flare to Give Earth a Glancing Blow

Submitted by Mike Francis, Chief Meteorologist

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013, 4:17pm

Massive X-Class Solar Flare to Give Earth a Glancing Blow

A massive X class solar flare was realeased from the Sun last night and it could affect the Earth. An X class is the strongest of all solar flares and comes from the same sunspot that had 3 other major flares over the weekend! It did warrant an R3 radio blackout which is on a scale of 1-5, basically it is a strong solar flare that could disrupt radio transmitions across the globe, the warning has since gone away.

Here is more from Nasa.gov: