Jerry Jackson's blog

If someone were to ask you to document every single United States tornado of the past 150 years, you would likely raise your hands in despair.

Severe weather forecasting is one of the most important tasks for any meteorologist.

Any graduating meteorology student will tell you that one of the hardest forecast parameters is the "sky condition".

As you probably know, computers are here to stay. From bank machines to grocery store check-outs, it seems that we can't even buy a gallon of milk without using a computer.

After a relatively quiet start to the year, the last few weeks have been rather active.

Have you ever wondered about the color of tornadoes?

It's hard to believe that winter is almost over. At home, I think we still have a box of candy canes sitting in our kitchen (right beside the chocolate Easter eggs).

As I write this blog on this Monday February 18, I'm running on about 3 hours of sleep following a night of severe weather.

When I was very young, I remember watching the old National Weather Service film "Terrible Tuesday" in school.

Do you remember the first week of 2008, when we were enjoying high temperatures in the 70's? Many folks were wondering if winter would ever return. Well, it did.