Sorry about the delay on this post! I was intrigued by the fantastic weather we were experiencing!.

A very intense cold front is what caused the devastation yesterday and the damage was very widespread and more devastating that some of us might realize. As I was watching the news at work tonight I overheard that three people had been killed (at least that's all we know of so far. Hopefully it's not more than that). One senior at UNC was in her car when a tree came down and smashed into it on Franklin Street. Another man, age 76, was in his yard when the tree came down on top of him. The third was a firefighter who was on his roof when the power lines fell down and electrocuted him. Not a good day at all from that standpoint.

As a meteorology student though, this storm was fascinating. Not only was it a very strong cold front, but it was moving very fast across the continental United States and it was very long reaching from D.C. all the way down to South Carolina. The temperature gradient across the front was about 30 degrees which is part of the reason some counties, such as Person County, North Carolina, experienced winds topping 70 mph. Power lines were taken down across the state and thousands of people are without power, but the power companies are working hard to fix that as soon as possible.

In all honesty, I'm amazed we did not have a tornado warning in some parts of the state. The conditions were right and the storm had a fantastic amount of CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy) which is essentially the amount of energy a storm has.

We should see some beautiful weather these next couple of days making for a wonderful Father's Day weekend as the High Pressure Center will be directly overhead tomorrow afternoon.