I'm sure many of you know Sharyl Attkisson from her national Sunday morning news show,  Full Measure News .  She invited me on her podcast last week and it is now posted. We discuss the tragic Hurricane Helene disaster, my proposed National Disaster Review Board, and other interesting topics. I hope you will listen!

We have an updated rainfall amount forecast and it has increased amounts and expanded the forecast to the west.  I believe this forecast is right on the money as opposed to the earlier forecast posted below. I'll keep monitoring this situation.]  -- original post -- Finally, needed moderate to heavy rainfalls are in the offing. Below is the forecast 7-day rainfall. I believe there will be a little more rain than indicated on the west side of the rainfall area in the central United States. The long-range models tend to have a bit of an east bias.  Here is the latest drought map (please keep in mind that yellow ≠ drought, just dryness).  Beyond 7-days, the rain is forecast to continue in the central U.S.

I'm again complementing the Washington Post  for yet another outstanding story on a weather-related topic. I highly recommend this story about Hurricane Helene and its victims .

We've frequently talked about how global warming, while being a real issue, has been increasingly exploited for those seeking power and money.  On the international front, we've just learned that between $26 and $41 billion  dollars have gone missing .  The Washington Post  is hardly a conservative publication yet even it has had to cover the many billions that were appropriated for electric vehicle charging stations (top of page) that have purchased almost nothing . This is not to be confused with the $42 billion program for rural internet which has connected zero people .  Big Climate exists to skim as much money as possible from these programs and, since most reporters and asssignment editors are liberal, they don't wish to dig into this deep corruption because it would make "their side" look bad.  Regardless of politics, the United States -- once the "land of opportunity -- is increasingly being strangled by its federal deficit. We simply cannot afford to

National Weather Service web site While there is no official release, there is a report  -- from a person I know is quite reliable -- this evening that the Federal Aviation Administration is going to end the in-person support from National Weather Service meteorologists effective April 1, 2025 -- which, of course, is near the start of tornado and severe thunderstorm season. This is a mind-blowing decision by the Biden-Harris Administration.  The meteorologist support service was a result of multiple weather-related airline accidents in the 1970's, especially Southern 242 which crashed in northern Georgia. The pilots misread their onboard radar and the air traffic controllers, because they had almost no weather information, directed the flight into a violent cluster of thunderstorms. The volume of hail destroyed both jet engines.  The above map is the territory covered by the 21 FAA Air Route Traffic Control Centers. The dark green is where strong to severe thunderstorms are occur

Photo by Frank Carpenter - unretouched color - 6:30pm A line of thunderstorms continues to develop across the east half of Kansas. The photographs were taken at Tuttle Creek Res., northeast of Manhattan, looking east. Here's what the sky looked like about 15 minutes earlier.  Meanwhile, the storms on radar continue to blossom.  Fortunately, these storms will primarily be desperately needed rain than anything severe.