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Hurricane Francine Makes Landfall in Southern Louisiana

Francine has officially made landfall along the Louisiana coast as a Category 2 hurricane. Life-threatening storm surge, considerable flash and urban flooding, hurricane force winds and tornadoes are expected along the Louisiana, Mississippi and portions of the Alabama coastlines. Francine will continue to track across west-central Mississippi into the Mid-South Thursday and Friday. Read More >

 

EDUCATION

 

Thank you for visiting our education page. On this page you will find links to resources provided by our office as well from our national headquarters. In addition, we are begining something new here, creating videos that will highlight different aspects of weather forecasting and meteorology in general. Enjoy and we hope you learn a thing or two!

Also note the national education page is here.

 

 

VIDEOS
 

    All About Weather Maps

    Doppler Radar

    Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere: using Excel to graph trends

    Winter Weather

 

Brief Tutorials

    Inversion with tutorial 

    Jet Stream with tutorial

    Pineapple Express/California Rains and Flooding

 

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