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The system pushing out of the Dakotas and diving into the Ohio Valley tonight will end up bombing out later tomorrow into Wednesday off Virginia Beach and will likely be DC’s biggest snow producer in a few years. It’s been 2 or 3 years since the immediate Washington DC area saw a decent snowstorm and this upcoming […]
The arctic wolf is ready to come roaring back into the Continental US after a 7 day vacation back up in the source region. The return of bitter cold comes via a series of clippers which are riding the northerly jet. While we’ve got a system currently snowing on the Ohio Valley, interior Northeast and […]
After some respite across the US from the extreme cold to start January, the pattern is resetting and going back to where it was to start 2014. The Pacific high is intensifying once again and so the cold now over the Plains and Midwest will grow deeper next week. The current ridge-trough set is such that the […]
What a difference a year makes for the US with the mean ridge-trough positions opposite to last winter. CHICAGO: January 2013 Was Least Snowy In 12 Years Last January saw a weather pattern which saw the focus of cold Out West while it was persistently mild across the Midwest and East. Chicago endured record low amounts of snow […]
Well the push of mild air has come at a cost with flooding caused by both heavy rainfall and snow and ice melt. Even severe weather impacted the Southeast yesterday. Wind gusts clocking 86 mph at Raleigh Airport, NC set a new wind record there while temperatures shot up to 61 at Philadelphia which is a major […]
The very air mass which dove south into the United States from the wastes of the arctic last weekend into early week, has crossed the North Atlantic and brought snow, freezing rain and ice to parts of Scotland this morning in it’s far weakened state. A direct discharge of intense Siberian/Arctic air crossed the pole and […]
The frigid air may be off the playing field and being replaced by MUCH milder, moister air tomorrow but winter is far from over. In fact, there’s firm indication of yet more arctic air as dropping south as early as mid next week with a serious of disturbances (clippers) riding an increasing northern flow into the N Plains. First the surge […]
While the brutal cold lifts, we have some decent moisture pushing into pretty dry Pacific Northwest. That system drops into the Southern Plains tonight and as it does so, we will see Gulf moisture get pulled north, setting the stage for a decent rain maker up the East Coast over the next 48 hours. A front running system […]
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