SIGNIFICANT "Heat Dome" Tropo Event Forecasted DXers in the Eastern half of the US, be sure to keep an eye on Bill Hepburn's Tropo Forecast at dxinfocentre.com/tropo.html over the next 7-10 days. You are going to be hearing about a significant "heat dome" of high pressure building over the Eastern half of the US this week that will be exceptionally strong, putting triple digit air temperatures into places like Raleigh, Charlotte, and into the mid-Atlantic. These "heat dome" setups can produce very significant inland tropo events for FM DX. What makes this significant is the location of the tropo - much further inland than we typically see at this depth and intensity. For reference, the August 2023 heat dome event brought significant tropo of 800+ miles for many DXers. Now, it is still too early to say if this event will produce anything to that magnitude - it may produce no Tropo on FM at all!. However, the forecast is looking rather favorable for some moderate to strong tropo over a large area around the sides of the heat dome. You can actually hear more about that Fall 2023 historic "Tropocalypse" opening, what conditions were present to create it and the results that were observed on Nick Langan and Bryce Foster's VHF DX Podcast from October 2023: podparadise.com/Podcast/1582… Either way, should be fun to at least keep an eye on the Tropo, all while still in the middle of Sporadic Es season! Best of DX to you all and 73! @DXTVFM @AllanWeather @w2njl

My local WEWS channel 5 did a segment about e-skip! Thanks @AllanWeather for getting this featured on the 5 pm newscast today. news5cleveland.com/weather/w…

Yesterday's E-skip was incredibly strong at times. Here is 102.1 KDGE from Dallas-Fort Worth at 1,028 miles, completely overriding my local 102.1 WDOK, which is only 23 miles from me. You can hear the top of the hour IDs swapping back and forth. There were tons of strong signals from Texas all over the band.