North and South America
As per usual there is a lot of confusion, excitement, anticipation, even hype perhaps about the potential snowstorm next week along the East Coast. The uncertainty will remain up until Monday of next week AFTER the system and it’s energy crosses the Rockies and Plains, a key area in which we’ll be able to gage both […]
After a bout of heavy rain, wind and heavy mountain snow at the start of last week, the pattern flips around once again across Southern California. Today through Saturday, it’s all about the warming Santa Ana winds and record warmth. Downtown Los Angeles is currently 84 degrees with several surrounding communities way up in record-breaking mid-80 degree territory and […]
It sure has been a wild February across a large chunk of the country with the recent focus being particularly on the southern plains extending north into the central plains and Lower Midwest. Wichita has just experienced it’s snowiest month while Kansas City saw it’s second snowiest February on record. Down in Amarillo and they endured their largest single day […]
Very briefly this morning I wanted to show you what the Jamstec long range model was showing for the upcoming spring (March through May) and the summer (June through August) was saying. If you’ve been reading in recent days I think you’ll have gathered that I’m clearly linking now the current ‘dry spell’ to a potential longer term […]
The current winter pattern across the US has been particularly fierce this February with two historic blizzards slamming the southern plains just 4 days apart. The first storm which hit at the close of last week brought Wichita, Kansas their 2nd biggest snowstorm on record while Kansas City, MO endured their biggest in some 20 […]
As the powerful winter storm sweeps northeastwards through tonight, it left behind an astonishing 19 inches of snow across Amarillo, TX which is a record for the day and 2nd biggest calendar day snow accumulation on record. Strong and gusty winds will continue across this region and this will make it tough for crews to clear blocked roads […]
A raging blizzard has dumped a record 17 inches of snow across the Amarillo area of the Texas Panhandle with gusts in the area topping 77 mph. Snow drifts have been measured at 3-6 feet widely and this is considered one of the worst blizzards to strike the area in living memory. Winds have gusted to 75 mph at Rick Husband […]
The next in a series of powerful winter storms is now crossing the Intermountain West and heading for New Mexico before crossing out onto the Plains tomorrow. While as much as 2+ feet of snow fell above 6,000ft from Washington to the Wasatch Range, below 5,000ft as much as 6 inches of snow fell in Salt Lake City, 8 over the eastern Benches and there is a possibility of a […]
The very active winter weather pattern continues across the Lower 48 as phase two of the most recent Plains storm takes shape along the Eastern Seaboard and is set to bring New England it’s 3rd weekend snowstorm in a row. So, while the Northeast gets into stormy weather once again, yet another storm system will sweep into the West […]
The storm which has been tracked all the way from the Gulf of Alaska, brought it’s first batch of rough weather to California and the Southwest during the early and mid part of the week with spells of heavy rain, wind and heavy mountain snow as far south as Los Angeles and San Diego with teacherous driving conditions across routes […]
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