It was created as a way for the average citizen to report what they saw in their neck of the woods during a potentially severe weather situation. Because, despite the fact that we have this million dollar Doppler radar and all this technology at our fingertips, it still comes down to basically eyes on the sky. |
Mold is everywhere. There are 1,800 types of toxic mold ... Mold gets triggered by water and it needs food, like paper, wood, cardboard and fiberboard. |
Our coastline is subject to waterspouts, and that's one thing that's very difficult to forecast. Waterspouts are a phenomena that tend to not last very long. |
Sometimes a storm on Doppler radar will be so obvious that it's severe that you pull the trigger on it and issue a severe weather or tornado warning. But there will be some days where you look at a storm and it's kind of ambiguous. It may be severe, or it may not. |