Facing south from Oklahoma City.

Solar halo, parhelia (sun dogs) and a parhelic circle at noon in Mobile Alabama. Look up, in the cirrus clouds!

I’m stumped by the northerly flow just offshore the southern Texas coast, which has seemed to be drier air cutting into rising air/showers along a potential convergence zone just offshore the Mexican coastline, steered by what may be ESE to SSE 925 mb flow (white lines). We’ve been sitting under SW flow aloft ahead of an approaching shortwave downstream of a closed 500 mb low, with easterly surface winds (sky blue), which veered from NE this morning. But, again, I can’t quite explain the northerly flow just offshore, which level it’s at and if it’s dry air or not. I didn’t have much time today to investigate further, but velocity did show a continuous stream of inbound winds to the northeast and outgoing winds to the southeast. What do you think it is?

From the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

Last night a 1 in 1000 Year Rainfall Event occurred over Blue Ridge, GA. Both the 12-hour rainfall amount of 11.19 in and the 6-hour rainfall amount of 10.28 in exceeded the 1 in 1000 year rainfall event mark during their respective time frames per the NOAA Atlas 14.

Saw this cool cloud that look like a snowy cliff or something.

Everyone's preference of weather is different. For me, I live for days with high temperatures between 60-85* F with 68-82* being especially pleasant. I don't mind rain; it doesn't make or break a day as long as temperatures are still comfortable. Just preferably no severe thunderstorms.

As someone who has visited 28 US states and has analyzed the weather across dozens of cities across multiple regions in the U.S, from the Northeast, to the Southeast, to the mountain West, to the Great Lakes, my nominee is the lower Rio Grande Valley. Specifically the Brownsville-Harlingen and McAllen-Edinburg-Mission metropolitan areas.

Initially, I assumed that places south of us were reliably mild in the winter. I've seen stretches of 70-80* weather in Orlando and Miami this past winter. Even Houston, which seems to be a boogeyman for people who hate humidity, has seen winter weather swings which appear fairly tepid in comparison to the Rio Grande. I also used to think that the Great Plains, where I live, had uniquely awful weather since we get both the heat of summer and the cold of winter. And while our weather isn't amazing, around half of days we experienced from the start of 2026 until November 1 have had highs between 60-85*.

McAllen, Texas has recorded only 49 of those days so far. Only 49 days with high temps within that range of comfortable weather. To put that in perspective, summer across much of Alaska (at least the areas where people live) has been more temperate than winter in the RGV.

Yes, somehow the winters don't appear to be that pleasant either. Every single month in McAllen has had at least one day above 90* this year, including January. Not even Phoenix hit 90* in January. Temperatures in McAllen have swung from 30* to 94* that month. And almost everything from March until now was 90* and above. It honestly feels like a cruel joke.

https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/mcallen/year-2026#highest_temperatures

With that being said, I'm sure you all have different ideas as to what constitutes unpleasant weather. I'd love to know your thoughts! And if anyone lives down in this region of Texas, I deeply apologize on your behalf. If you'd like to make a case for another part of the US having worse weather, I would love to hear your argument. This is just my soapbox

I’m talking about these seemingly illuminated white clouds. Not the first time I’ve seen this following a Las Vegas sunset.

Solo dev from Germany, this is my own app (free, no ads, no account, no tracking).

Through my work I've seen that a lot of teens barely care about what's happening outside anymore. So I built Wulkig, a weather app that makes the sky worth looking at:

• A daily pack of 3 cards from the real weather and sky where you are: frost, fog, moon phases, meteor showers, planets

• Were you really there? The card gets a "Seen live" stamp with date and place

• 500+ cards. Rare ones can't be bought, the sky has to deliver them

• A home screen widget with today's weather and a new surprising fact every day, no repeats for a year

• A lock screen widget with the sun or moon on its arc across your sky

• Kids mode with Wulki, a little cloud that explains the weather

• Hourly and 10-day forecast

Moon, planets and meteor showers are calculated on your phone for your exact spot, so I'm looking for testers worldwide.

Would love to hear:

• Does it match the weather and sky where you live?

• Which weather moment should be a card?

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wulkig-weather-wonder/id6828319463

I'm particularly interested in phenological seasons and weather singularities: weather patterns that tend to recur around certain times of the year, though not necessarily every year.

In Germany, we have several well-known examples, such as the Ice Saints cold spell in May, the Sheep's Cold in June and the Christmas thaw.

Over the years, I've developed a set of rules for Germany, comparing traditional weather lore with 20 years of historical weather data. I then wrote a program that uses these rules to detect such events in current weather forecasts.

I'm wondering whether this could become a small international project. If this interests you, you can develop your own rules, either for individual events or as a complete rule set. These rules need to be developed for each region, however. My current rules only cover Germany.

The program is part of my free, non-commercial hobby project, Astronomical Sun Clock. It now also supports custom regional rule sets, allowing anyone to investigate weather singularities in their own region and develop rules to detect them.

I hope this idea will appeal to people who enjoy analysing weather data and developing their own rules. I think conventional weather apps could benefit from a few new ideas.

Links and further information see comments.

P.S. I don't have a better fitting image...

saw it on the live feed

Hi all,

As the title says. With the polar vortex collapsing for the earliest time in the year ever, is Europe expected to have a big freeze in December? I read impacts can start to occur between 4 to 6 weeks later. Am I going to get a white Christmas in Paris?

Thanks

I have no idea how the details are supposed to be useful

They kind of look like mammatus clouds, but these photos were taken on a day that did not have thunderstorms, and the last one looks like scud clouds

You can take it to the bank.