Todd Yakoubian, meteorologist with KATV, Channel 7, envisions a future with more accurate modeling that can predict the path of a tornado hours in advance.
Meteorology professor Victor Gensini says increased drought conditions in the western U.S. are pushing more powerful storms into the mid-South. “Arkansas is in the footprint of this change," he said.
Gene Lyons writes that Barack Obama is Tom Cotton's real opponent in his race for Senate, a factor that overcomes Cotton's manifest shortcomings as an Arkansas political candidate.
Sixteen people died in Sunday night storms in Central Arkansas. Searches of the disaster areas continue this morning. President Obama acknowledged the disaster during a foreign trip and promised all federal help.
A reader reminds me that a Republican-supported House budget plan — thanks Reps. Tim Griffin, Rick Crawford and Steve Womack — would take $450 million out of the hide of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.