North and South America

After a brief respite from the cold over the Rockies, it’s returning big time now from California east to the Plains with a major trough returning to the West. A major storm, named Gandolf is now developing and is set to bring a night of heavy snow from the Four Corners up through Utah, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana into North Dakota. Very […]

This weekend will be exceptionally mild, even warm for mid-January as an upper ridge and strong southwest flow drives 70s all the way to central Virginia, perhaps even into the south suburbs of Washington DC. Expect mid-60s through Baltimore, low 60s for Philadelphia, Trenton and Newark. New York City should creep to 60 while Boston makes […]

A fair amount of welcome rain has already fallen over South Texas and Louisiana and not nowhere near over yet as a developing storm centre forms over the western Gulf and lifts north. This low will draw warm, moisture rich air onto the Texas coast with a warm front. As well as the heavy, flooding rains, isolated severe thunderstorms are possible, […]

A flatter flow across the US has forced the coldest air over the West back to the north but this Pacific flow will be short lived as the trough returns and significantly deepens over the next 7 days. An upper level storm pushing across the Southern Plains will bring big rains to Texas and the Lower […]

As you know, there is significant warming on the way to the Plains, Ohio Valley and East which will erase a lot of the snow covering the Lower Midwest and interior Northeast but the Upper Midwest and New England should hold on given the snow depth and this should keep temperatures cooler and mainly in the 40s. Where there is […]

Chicago has finally topped the 1-inch mark for the season after a pathetic 0.4 inches of snow fell Saturday night which raises the city’s total to 1.3 inches. However, while this is an incredibly low amount of snow for this far into winter, according to AccuWeather, the latest Chicago has taken to see 1-inch of snow was back in 1944 when it took […]

As you know I am vacationing in Tinton Falls, New Jersey. It’s been fairly chilly so far since my arrival on Friday with highs in the 30s, lows at or just below freezing. Following a passing upper system overnight, we awoke to a fresh dusting of snow here this morning. Here are a few shots I took at […]

There is plenty of weather to talk about across the US right now with a rare heavy snowfall which struck Texas on Thursday which broke records and even shut down major I-10 for a time while busy, Transmountain Highway which cuts through the Franklin Mountains on the outskirts of El Paso was also shut. The largest snow accumulation was […]

For a good week now, the models and particularly ensembles have been showing the turn from cold to warm over the Ohio Valley and East but their increasingly showing a flip back in the 8-16 day. Since Christmas and New Year, I’ve been watching closely the stratosphere and the warming taking place. Despite models not seeing […]

Sorry for the lack of posts during the day Wednesday, I was on the road much of the day and trying to get organised for my 2 week vacation which starts on Friday. I will be out in New Jersey for 2 weeks and I must say that I am very much looking forward to […]