Tag: US Arctic Outbreak
This week isn’t going to be all that warm but there is undoubtedly a ‘warming trend’ following the frigid open to the month. Despite all the talk about warmer weather… here were this morning’s lows. 1044 high over MN-IA tomorrow. Here comes that warm-up. TOP IMAGE CREDIT: Eli Welson (@weird_kid_down) [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] As previously stated, the […]
The air mass that’s ready to drop out of Canada sure means business. On the charts certainly but will it deliver the kind of severity we saw last early/mid-January when Green Bay hit 18 below, Chicago hit 16 below, Cleveland 9 below, Charlotte and Atlanta 6? Snow cover has increased significantly in the last 5 days from the 1st of […]
Despite taking yesterday off, there’s no change in the medium and long range idea. The Arctic Oscillation is ready to go back negative as heights build north. A ‘bridging ridge’ between Alaska and Greenland towards the end of the month could lead to a major cold outbreak for the Lower 48 and not just a cold […]
The wild and exciting winter pattern we have currently and particularly in the upcoming 7 days supports the idea that yesterday’s surprise South Texas, Louisiana snow may not be the last. In fact a bigger event may be coming next week according to some of the models as the deepest trough of winter dives all the way to the Gulf […]
After some respite across the US from the extreme cold to start January, the pattern is resetting and going back to where it was to start 2014. The Pacific high is intensifying once again and so the cold now over the Plains and Midwest will grow deeper next week. The current ridge-trough set is such that the […]
The Central Plains and Mid-Mississippi Valley endured quite the snowstorm today with 8-14 inches falling widely and the heavy snows continue tonight over the Ohio Valley. Following 3-6 inches in Kansas City, 10-14 inches in St Louis and Chicago, the snow has moved out and as skies clear, so it’s turning fiercely cold tonight. As the arctic front sweeps south through […]
Lot’s of talk about the major snowstorm coming to the Northeast later tomorrow into Friday but we don’t want to forget the first phase of this two part snow event which is currently affecting a large swath extending from Kansas all the way to Lower Michigan, even Pennsylvania. That snow band has already lay down a good […]
We have a truly wild next 14 day period across the Lower 48 and the wild stuff has begun over the Pacific Northwest, Rockies and by tomorrow, the Dakotas with a low which is drawing on some of the coldest air not seen in some time. The combination of warm air flowing north up through the Rockies, […]
Beneath the core of a super cold arctic high, the temperature plunged to a bone-chilling -55 degrees at Rabbit Kettle, NWT this morning while many surrounding locales stretching from eastern Alaska to southeast Yukon dropped below -40. That’s a January-like air mass even by this typically cold, snowy region at this time of year and this […]
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