Next Severe Threat Staying Well North, Not Done With Cold Fronts

I was driving around running errands this afternoon listening to the "Scoot on the air" radio program on WWL radio. He got into a discussion about how the last two severe weather events turned out to be nothing for those of us south of Lake Pontchartrain.  Scoot acknowledged that there was some severe damage & deaths farther to our north, but he felt all the local broadcasters just followed computer models and all looked the same.  Even mentioned how Nash would use his grease pen to draw arrows explaining what was going to happen and perhaps maybe somebody might try going back to that (Not going to happen!)  Let's just say, given the amount of sounding the Alert for this recent severe event, the weather under preformed the hype.  But not everywhere.  Here is a map showing a very destructive & deadly tornado that started in Louisiana.

The drone video showing trees snapped off like matchsticks certainly detail what was at least an EF-3 tornado strength around Tylertown.  For those folks, the severe threat was not over-hyped.  Still 3 died in Tylertown despite what I thought were excellent warnings that is was coming.  Reminds me of the Xenia tornado (April 1974) that killed 36 in ONE TOWN!  Warnings were out 15-20 minutes ahead of time, people sheltered in their basements, yet many died under the debris field that buried them.  Fortunately these super tornadoes don't happen that often despite what the media might say.  As a matter of fact, the last EF-5 strength tornado hit Moore, Oklahoma on May 20, 2013 some 12 years ago. Yes there is another severe threat (level 2) coming for this Wednesday, but it's well to our north

The energy for this threat is hitting California today with more rain & snow.  It appears this will be three years in a row where their rainy season is above normal.  For us, Tuesday will be another delightful day before some clouds and a few showers arrive late on Wednesday.

Look at the warm-up coming on the back side of the surface high over us.  80s have soared into Kansas.

We should be 75-80 on Tuesday with lower 80s on Wednesday.  Behind the front, Thursday morning will be chilly.  Finally, can you believe the National Hurricane Center is watching a system in the Atlantic?

NHC says they don't expect this low center to develop since it is moving into upper-level shear.  So why mention it?

C'mon, don't make us nervous BEFORE the season even gets here!  Stay tuned!