Weather for the weather community

7000 meteorologists and atmospheric scientists (like me) have converged on Austin Texas for the annual AMS meeting. I’ve seen some great talks already and met a lot of students interested in UNC Charlotte and many others that were pleasantly surprised that UNC Charlotte has Masters and PhD programs related to atmospheric sciences. but the big fun is that the weather gods are smiling on the weather community. Check out the image from NOAA SPC.
I don’t have a good sense of the chances, but it’s always exciting to be in “slight risk” region! right now, middle of the day in Austin, the visibility is about a mile so i can’t look out my hotel window and see anything. Radar suggests that downtown Austin should get some convective precip shortly. Embarassing to say this, but I wish i’d brought an umbrella!