Michael Hosek

@metrmike.bsky.social

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Ph.D., Meteorology, amateur author, orange cat dad. I study drylines/severe thunderstorm forecasting, write science fiction/fantasy, and try to take cool cloud photos

spatial map of the southern great plains showing the average frequency of dryline days, severe days, and fraction of those severe days associated with drylines for March. Qualitatively similar to the plot in the first panel, but much lower counts of drylines and severe days, resulting in a less-smooth distribution of percentages of dryline-associated severe.
spatial map of the southern great plains showing the average seasonal frequency of dryline days, severe days, and fraction of those severe days associated with a dryline by grid point. Drylines are most common across the TX panhandle/SW TX, and the highest fraction of dryline-associated severe days stretches from SW TX through western OK and gradually tapers off surrounding that