Weather Tidbits: The Air Quality Index
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the air quality index. The air quality index, or AQI, is a scale used to report daily air quality with associated health effects. An AQI of 0-50…
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Weather Tidbits: The Heat Index
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the heat index. The heat index is a temperature value when taking into account the dew point and air temperature. The heat index is also known as…
Weather Tidbits: Tornado Safety
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the safest places to be during a tornado warning. Firstly, a dangerous place to be is a mobile home. If you live in a mobile home, make…
Weather Tidbits: 2024 Hurricane Season Timeline
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the tropical timeline of the 2024 season in the Atlantic basin. This timeline includes the peak intensity of each storm. The 2024 season saw a total of…
Weather Tidbits: Hail Size vs. Updraft Speeds
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the relationship between thunderstorm updraft strength and hail size. Hail stones form via the suspension of rain droplets by the updraft within a pocket of cold air…
Weather Tidbits: The 2025 Hurricane Season Outlook
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the 2025 Hurricane Seasonal Outlook from the National Hurricane Center, also known as the NHC. The NHC predicts an above-normal season with tropical activity, though not as…
Weather Tidbits: What is a Nor'Easter?
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing what a nor'easter is. When the public hears the term nor'easter, most may think that it is related to a potent coastal snowstorm. However, precipitation type does…
Weather Tidbits: The Rarity of Different Hail Sizes
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the rarity and severity levels of different hail sizes. On May 16, 2025, Delmarva experienced a damaging severe weather episode that produced hail up to golf ball…
Weather Tidbits: How a Tornado Forms
In this edition of Weather Tidbits, we'll be discussing how tornadoes form. A proper environment for tornadic development features an unstable airmass and vertical speed and directional wind shear, or the change of wind speed…
Weather Tidbits: How Official Temperatures Are Recorded
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing why your thermometer against a house may differ from an official temperature recording. It all has to do with the surrounding environment of the thermometer. Against an…
Weather Tidbits: Hail Formation
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing how hail forms. Two critical factors for hail formation is the strength of an updraft within a thunderstorm cloud and the height of the freezing level. Hailstones…
Weather Tidbits: The UV Index
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing the UV index. The UV index is an ultraviolet scale showing how intense the UV radiation from the sun will be for a given time during the…
Weather Tidbits: Excessive Rainfall & Root Rot
In this edition of Weather Tidbits, we are going to be discussing excessive rainfall and its potential effects on a plant's root system. Rainfall is obviously important for plants and trees. However, too much rainfall…
Weather Tidbits: Elevated Thunderstorms
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing elevated thunderstorms. Elevated thunderstorms are storms that develop within a pocket of warm, moist air aloft a layer of cooler and more stable air at the surface.…
Weather Tidbits: Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds
This edition of Weather Tidbits is going to be discussing pyrocumulonimbus clouds. Pyrocumulonimbus clouds are thunderclouds that are created from intense heating of the Earth's surface. The process is similar to that of a cumulonimbus…
Weather Tidbits: Mesoscale Convective Systems
In this edition of weather tidbits, we are going to be discussing mesoscale convective systems in this edition of Weather Tidbits. Mesoscale convective systems, or MCS, are a collection of thunderstorms that merge and act…
Weather Tidbits: Easter Climatology at Salisbury
This edition of Weather Tidbits will be discussing Easter Sunday climatology at Salisbury. Easter in Salisbury has featured a wide range of temperatures since records were kept back in 1906. April 18, 1976, recorded the…
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