United States of America

Quick update on next week’s cold surge, Of course it’s turned chilly over the Plains and Midwest now with the first sub-freezing temps this morning all the way to Texas but in stark contrast, it’s warm up and down the East Coast where it may it into the mid and upper 70s from DC to […]

Up until now it’s been cold from the western Plains/Rockies west while very warm in the East but we have a major flip in the pattern for the second half of October. Despite the early start to winter for some and one western system after the other with two snowstorms within 10 days for the […]

It’s been a warm October from the Plains east while cold from the Rockies west but we’re set for a big mid month flip and that’s largely down to the PNA flipping positive while the NAO and AO takes a second dip. Check out these departures from normal. Temperature Departures From Normal Oct. 1 to 13, 2013 […]

It’s all eyes on the next system which sweeps into the West this weekend in what has been just one system after the next for the West. The -PNA has kept the trough in the west with more ridging further east and next week is not any different but in a sense it is. In […]

As well as for Europe, we have some significant changes coming to the North America upper pattern as the NAO is heading negative along with the PNA finally shifting towards positive. The last -NAO did not deliver a typical eastern trough and in fact the warmth which was over the East, was outstanding really for the […]