{"id":2337,"date":"2011-03-09T21:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/is-dixie-alley-spreading.html"},"modified":"2011-03-09T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:36:38","slug":"is-dixie-alley-spreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/is-dixie-alley-spreading.html","title":{"rendered":"Is Dixie Alley spreading?"},"content":{"rendered":"So today we have a report of a tornado at\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/tornado-warning-you-would-have-heard-this-on-noaa-weather-radio.html\">Poulan<\/a> (west of Tifton),\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/03\/a-new-tornado-alley.html\">tornados in Alabama and west<\/a>,\nand right now the storm is sitting on top of Tallahassee in a circular pattern:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/weather.weatherbug.com\/GA\/Hahira-weather\/local-radar\/doppler-radar.html?zcode=z6286\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5135\/5513896576_39006abdb5_o.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nMore maps of Dixie Alley from\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.ametsoc.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1175\/2010BAMS3102.1\">\nIs Dixie Alley an extension of Tornado Alley?<\/a>\nby P. Grady Dixon, et al.:\n\n<!--more-->\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5098\/5513264223_a68e795c4a_o.jpg\">\n<p>\nThe one on the left aggregates over many miles.\nThe one on the right shows much more local detail,\nincluding what looks like a blob over Lake Park\nand another one somewhere between here and Tifton.\n<p>\nHere&#8217;s a version with intermediate aggregation:\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5297\/5513268675_79b3d6a2da.jpg\">\n<p>\nLooks like northwest Lowndes County is somewhere near the edge of Dixie Alley.\n<p>\nBut that paper used data from 1990 through 1999.  This is 2011.\nJudging by today&#8217;s weather, we have to wonder if Dixie Alley has\nspread farther to the east, where we are.\nFor that matter, it doesn&#8217;t take tornados to cause a lot of damage.\nA few years ago we drove through Darien just after a storm blew down\nquite a few pine trees.\nAnd that&#8217;s way over on the Atlantic coast.\n<p>\nSure would be nice for people around here to have\n<a href=\"\/blog\/category\/noaa-weather-radios\">\nNOAA Weather Radios.<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So today we have a report of a tornado at Poulan (west of Tifton), tornados in Alabama and west, and right now the storm is sitting on top of Tallahassee in a circular pattern: More maps of Dixie Alley from Is Dixie Alley an extension of Tornado Alley? by P. 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