Tweet #3000.
Instability/wind shear look capable of supporting severe wx by early afternoon in E NY, then push E. Radar sim: rapidrefresh.noaa.gov/hrrrconus/jslo… #NEwx
— Corey Pieper (@Geostrophic) May 16, 2012
S. Texas Severe Potential Today
Though not a terribly exciting set up for far South Texas today, the area will have the potential for isolated severe weather by early this afternoon.
Model data indicates the likelihood of the influence of a weak mid-level vorticity lobe advecting into the area by early afternoon (note the area of 20-22 10E-5/s to the NW of Brownsville in the image below).
HRRR 500mb Vorticity Field at 19Z (2pm CDT)
This bit of energy has the capability of driving the development of convection, in an area of at least marginal shear and instability.
SREF Probability of Craven-Brooks Significant Severe >=20000 (a severe t-storm threshold)
Spider Man Memory
My memory is terrible, and going back as far as my single digits age is pretty tenuous, but one memory I do have is seeing Spider Man being played on an Atari 2600 by my baby sitter's son when I was likely around 4 or 5 years old (I was born in '78).
They'd kept the console hidden up until the day that I witnessed this amazing event. I was in "morning kindergarten", which meant I normally never saw this son of her's, but this must have been a special afternoon. Here is a video of the game...keeping in mind, how REAL the action on the screen seemed to me then, and still seems in my memory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hvlQrME5g4&feature=youtube_gdata_player