North and South America
Given both the pattern that remains over the Lower 48 and the suggestion that the AO and NAO will remain well into negative territory through pretty much the remainder of March, potentially extending into April now, suggests spring is a long way off.I showed the AO ensemble in my European post earlier and it’s astounding how […]
As we progress towards true spring and warmer weather, precipitation become more important as evaporation rates increase. There has been a decent start to 2013 up and down the Mississippi and Ohio River Valley in terms and even for areas such as Chicago where fall and early winter was exceptionally dry with warmer than normal temperatures, the second […]
While one storm exits the Northeast, the next sweeps into Southern California where it’s bringing disruptive rain across low lying areas, heavy snow to the mountains as well as strong, gusty winds. Further east and thunderstorms are causing flight delays in and out of Las Vegas McCarren Intl Airport. In Phoenix and it’s blowing dust along with a hailstorm that’s causing problems. There’s a lot […]
The storm began early this week with thundersnow and 60+mph winds across Montana, the following 36 hours saw over 14 inches of snow fall over parts of North Dakota then over 9 inches in both Minneapolis and Chicago, this was both cities largest snowfall of the winter. As the system crossed the country, as much as 8-12 inches fell across Indiana, Ohio and […]
As the storm now sets it’s sights on the Northeast, we look back at what fell from the Dakotas to DC and we certainly have seen some very impressive totals with both Minneapolis and Chicago receiving over 9 inches, record-setting for Chicago. Snow totals generally ranged from 8-13 inches from North Dakota to Indiana (14″ fell […]
Boy, what a storm this has been across the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin and now through Illinois, Indiana this evening with as much as 7 inches now down in Chicago. An impressive 9 inches of snow fell up in Minneapolis from this system and well over a foot came down up over North Dakota. This powerful winter storm […]
As of 5pm CT, Chicago’s official recording station at O’Hare Intl Airport has recieved 7 inches of snow now, comfortably breaking a daily record and also making this the biggest snow event for the city since the infamous Groundhog Day Blizzard back in 2011 which dumped an incredible 21.2 inches, stranding motorists on Lake Shore Dr. Nearby Belvidere […]
After so much talk of this storm, it is now unravelling and while there has been such uncertainty over especially the Baltimore-Washington corridor, it’s now looking more and more likely they are going to get hit hard by this. My advise would be, think seriously before attempting a Wednesday AM commute into either city! As for […]
North Dakota blizzard of 1977 (Image courtesy of kcorliss.areavoices.com) Right up until the very last minute, things can change for better or worse with the storm system that will dive out of the Northern Plains into the Midwest with an eventual secondary low developing just off the North Carolina coast. This is a very complex […]
All week on the models we have been watching the trough drop all the way to South Florida and sure enough, it has delivered this weekend with many seeing their coldest weather of the winter. Atlanta’s high of 39 on Saturday was coldest since last winter and this morning, temperatures dipped to freezing or slightly below, […]
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