Winter 2014/15
It was, as expected, a truly bone-chilling morning from Ontario to Washington DC. In fact it was colder than expected for some spots including a -32 in Chandlers Valley, PA (according to NWS of Stat College) and -30 at Smethport NW PA. Smethport, PA webcam from this morning. Note the temp at the bottom. It was not just the […]
We know the Atlantic is set to fire on all cylinders this week, fuelled by an extreme cold pool developing over North America. The trouble for us was that last week, the models had a stronger than normal Azores high. A strength and position which would direct Atlantic lows predominantly to our north thus keeping us mild. [s2If […]
Blizzard conditions are currently affecting Atlantic Canada while the powerful offshore system begins to pull out of the Northeast US with Boston digging out from an additional 16. Check out these latest incredible scenes from New England and New Brunswick! Boston, MA Moncton, New Brunswick. In 3 weeks, Boston has seen more snow than all but TWO […]
As stated last week, the Atlantic storm train is ready to get much more active as the cold builds over eastern North America. This cold pool forces a stronger trans-Atlantic jet and with greater thermal gradient comes deeper lows. The problem I’ve had is the Azores ridge strengthens but there does appear to be change. Week […]
2 weeks ago while the UK did a little shivering, so Greenland was balmy under a blocking high. Now that the blocking high is over Europe, so Greenland shivers beneath the strongest cold pool/trough of winter and the UK enjoys relative warmth. Temps took a dip to -62C or -80F this AM at Greenland’s Summit Camp […]
The CFSv2 continues to show the same thing, a cold end game to winter and start to spring over the Midwest and East. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] As for the nearer term, the ECMWF continues to see the more southern snow event next week. This weekend sees another significant snow dump in hard hit New England with […]
In the near term, i.e. this valentine’s weekend, we do have some wet and windy weather to talk about, however, high pressure looks to remain stubborn and stronger than initially thought to our southwest over the Azores next week. A strong positive over the Azores means an increasingly active Atlantic wave train gets directed towards Iceland and therefore we’re […]
Snowfall spreads south along with the arctic air next 10 days. I’ve talked enough about the intensity of cold coming but what I haven’t spoken as much about is the duration of this VERY COLD pattern. It should be equally as impressive. TOP IMAGE CREDIT: Bill Gonzalez [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] GFS 7-day MEAN 2m temps/anomalies through next 2 wks. CFSv2 […]
I’m hitting the road very soon so this is just a quick write-up unfortunately. There’s a full discussion on today’s video. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] VALENTINE’s WEEKEND Looking blustery with showers across England and Wales Saturday. More settled the further north you go. ECMWF surface for 14th GFS surface In short, we’ve got a battle setting up […]
Check out these latest images of the Boston snow pack captured today by resident Chris Faulkner! According to the NWS, Boston tied the all-time record snow depth following the latest dump which dropped 22″ and this quantified as the city’s 7th biggest snowstorm in history and amazingly the 2nd top 10 snowstorm in the last 10 days. Boston’s seen the most […]
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