I'll start off the bat and say it's been a while since I've written to the blog, and that's on me. I know I rarely posted beforehand but I hope to get some blog posts out more frequently rather then once every six months from here on out. There were two main reasons why I stopped writing after June. The first is that for much of the late summer and fall, there wasn't any interesting weather for me to write about. Obviously the tropics were record setting this year but with that being said, most of my thoughts were written on my twitter page where some longer threads were mixed in as well. The weather in the midwest was dry, warm with little storm system trekking through. Closer to home, there was nothing notable outside of the August 10th Derecho and a few severe weather busts to even really talk about. With the onset of winter and winter weather, I should be able to talk about a few of the more notable events and/or scenarios in the Midwest/Great Lakes region where I can add my own input and analysis. The second reason why I didn't write was that my time to do longer and more intensive research was interrupted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which killed my motivation for external activities. This was on top of doing my normal school work so I didn't really want to do anything. With my finals for the first semester over, I should have much more time over Winter Break to write a few more blogs. Some upcoming blogs that I plan on having done either by the new year or soon after should be my retrospective view on my hurricane season prediction that I wrote at the season's begin. Another blog would be my season in review for my severe weather chasing adventures in my first year. I have some other blog ideas but I'll definitely put out those two aforementioned blogs along with some more in-depth analysis of some teleconnections that I've kept an eye over the past few weeks. For the future I hope to be able to balance my writing with everything else better so that these long breaks aren't seen again. Here's a couple images from the snowstorm this past Saturday that dropped 5-8 inches of snow over parts of the Midwest. Here in Madison we received upwards of 6 inches of snow with snowfall rates approaching 1 in/hr at times.
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AuthorHello, my name is Kaylan. I'm currently a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin studying Atmospheric and Oceanic Science. I have had a passion in the weather for as long as I can remember and hope to continue it into the future. Archives
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