Archive for October, 2009

> Image source: http://www.ecmwf.int/products/forecasts/d/charts/medium/deterministic/msl_uv850_z500!Geopotential%20500%20hPa!72!North%20hemisphere!pop!od!oper!public_plots!2009101900!!/ As the East Coast is not enduring hurricanes, what other ways can we see offshore waters cool enough that allows an Arctic High to weaken less in winter? Nor’ Easters would do the trick!Gales, heavy rain and even snow created horrible conditions over the weekend across the Northeast with inland snows. […]

>Check this out!http://www.iceagenow.com/2009_Other_Parts_of_the_World.htm and this.. http://www.iceagenow.com/Record_Lows_2009.htm and this… http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/10/18/a-cold-start-to-fall-over-4500-new-snowfall-low-temp-and-lowest-max-temp-records-set-in-the-usa-this-last-week/#more-11803 Thanks for reading. -Mark

> Nendaz, Switzerland Scott Base, Antarctica Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California, currently 57 degree, partly cloudy Aruba, currently 89 degrees, sunny and tropical! Lloret De Mar, Catalonia, Spain, currently, 66 degrees and sunny Gnadenalm, Austria Glasenburg, Austria, Currently: 46 degrees Jerusalem, Israel, currently 93 degrees and sunny George Square, Glasgow, Scotland, currently 53 degrees and […]

>Tomorrow I shall post more on State College’s record snow, I haven’t updated since yesterday since despite the continued snowfall there, they haven’t added much to their totals of between 6-10 inches. Tonight, it’s already cold outside here with another starry, clear night, another frost is on the way! I also will cover some global […]

>This morning I looked through the curtains this morning at 4.30am to a frost. Brilliant clear skies and calm winds allowed enough cooling overnight for the first frost of autumn 09 to occur after a day which under high pressure and brilliant blue, cloudless skies drove the thermometer towards 58 to 60 degrees for a […]

> – By Mark VoganWith all the heavy snow falling either out West over Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado or over the Midwest with 4 inches of snow falling at Minneapolis and even the 20% snow cover across America and it’s only mid-October, Is there anything more to all this than just a wacky pattern that […]

>Here are some photos I took this afternoon. It was a beautiful fall afternoon with mild temperatures into the upper 50s! A little warm for mid-October but it does happen. These photos are of wilderness and solitude, the silence of a forest and lake with not a breathe of wind or sound… I also have […]

> Jesse Ferrell’s webcam, looking out over the parking lot at AccuWeather HQ.. UPDATE: Glasgow, Scotland currently 57 degrees, State College, Pa currently 32 degrees with snow showers! Big Contrast between unusually mild and unusually cool across the Atlantic today! STATE COLLEGE, CENTER COUNTY, PA GETS HAMMERED BY OVER 4 INCHES OF SNOW, WHICH BREAKS […]

>Nearly 1″ of snow has fallen on State College, which is almost bang slap in the center of Pennsylvania. Center County is getting hit hard with heavy, wet snow which on the valley floor, snow has accumulated to 1″ (perhaps more by now), surrounding mountains are likely seeing perhaps 2-3 inches and the big concern […]

>Thoughts and Ideas on the Long Range, not my forecast! That’s coming on October 31st!After one of the coldest October outbreaks on record from the American West and the brutal chill and crippling snow for central and eastern Europe, a warm, zonal flow will flood much of the Northern Hemisphere at the same time Arctic […]