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Severe Weather 2024

My 2024 Rain total: 55.68 inches. Just above 2023 total at 52.86, but lower than 2022 total at 59.81. Yearly average is right at 60 inches.

2024 Severe WX Stats:
1,832 tornadoes per SPC (as of Dec 30th) (Highest total since 2018)
726 total watches (6 of those PDS TOR Watches/1 PDS SEV Watch)
(highest total watches issued since 2019)

General Severe Wx Stats:
Grand Total Watches (2000 thru 2024): 18,694 (291 PDS TOR Watches/44 PDS SEV Watches)
Total Watches (2000 thru 2009): 8,694 (206 PDS TOR/27 PDS SEV)
Total Watches (2010 thru 2019): 6,299 (64 PDS TOR/11 PDS SEV)
Total Watches (2020 thru 2024): 3,134 (21 PDS TOR/6 PDS SEV)
 
Longtime SPC forecaster Roger Edwards signs off with today's 13Z outlook:

...Epilogue (RE)...
This is my final SPC outlook, forecast and shift. With a
cyclonically swirling storm of memories, I retire mourning the end
of a rewarding era, yet ever grateful, blessed with a career of
public service devoted to excellence. For a poor kid from
inner-city east Dallas, carrying a passion for tornadoes from
earliest awareness, and a relentless drive to research and forecast
them, it has been everything the dream promised, and more. I hope
the American taxpayers have found my time worth their money.

Even through this autumnal transition of life's seasons, I'll stay
as inspired as ever by the tempestuous sky above -- to observe,
photograph and study it, and keep giving back to the science in some
way, as long as physically and mentally able. It just won't be on
rotating shifts. The forecasting baton passes to another generation
of sharp minds, just as the lead crew in the 1990s did for us "young
pups of SELS" in Kansas City. The SPC is in great hands.

There isn't enough room here to thank everyone from early childhood
through OU, NSSL, NHC, NSSFC/SELS, and SPC -- family, friends,
instructors, mentors, students, and colleagues -- but be assured I
do. Nothing has granted greater career fulfillment than to deliver
severe-weather forecasts with detailed, science-based insights,
customized for each situation, shift after shift for over three
decades, and to write related research papers. Thanks for reading
and using them, any or all. Stay weather-aware!

..Edwards/Grams.. 12/31/2024
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