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It was one heck of a cold start from Canada all the way to Florida this morning and this afternoon is not much better with temperatures running 30-45 below normal. When encompassing the entire Eastern US, this morning was likely the coldest start since 1994. This blast from the arctic had been forecasted for over a week now and it sure has materialised […]
The Central Plains and Mid-Mississippi Valley endured quite the snowstorm today with 8-14 inches falling widely and the heavy snows continue tonight over the Ohio Valley. Following 3-6 inches in Kansas City, 10-14 inches in St Louis and Chicago, the snow has moved out and as skies clear, so it’s turning fiercely cold tonight. As the arctic front sweeps south through […]
The much anticipated even hyped Midwest and Northeast snowstorm delivered as promised late week with as much as 18 inches falling in Chicago’s northwest suburb of Gurnee while up to 21 inches fell north of Boston. 6-9 inches fell within the Philadelphia-New York corridor. The cold during as well as after the storm was brutal with snow falling while […]
Well it continues to snow this evening across the rather snowy Chicago area this evening with 10.9 inches now down at at Midway and 8.9 inches at O’Hare, Chicago’s official recording station. According to WGN-TV’s Tom Skilling, it’s been snowing more or less continuous for the past 43 hours and a further inch or so is likely. […]
Lot’s of talk about the major snowstorm coming to the Northeast later tomorrow into Friday but we don’t want to forget the first phase of this two part snow event which is currently affecting a large swath extending from Kansas all the way to Lower Michigan, even Pennsylvania. That snow band has already lay down a good […]
It’s been said all along that the cold pattern this year meant business over North America with a cold November, colder December and potentially an even colder January. The past 2 years have seen warm or mild winters with last January being mild in the East with the cold and snow arriving late in the game. I guess this […]
A nice warm Pacific flow will give those that have been shivering of late a well earned break from the bitter cold through the first half of this weekend. Check out these highs from today. Most noticeable is the lack of cold air which has been kicked up to the international border TEMPORARILY and this […]
We saw one very cold start to Christmas Eve throughout the Northern Plains down into the Lower Midwest with many experiencing the coldest start yet. The latest in what has been a series of arctic plunges, dove south over fresh snow cover, brought by the past weekend storm system. Temperatures yesterday morning dropped to -38 […]
With blocking now showing up over the arctic and extending down over Greenland, the stage is set for a cold or very cold January across the Lower 48. Up till now, the main driver of what has been a cold December, has been the Eastern and Western Pacific Oscillation (WPO and EPO) with no guidance […]
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