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There is going to be increased interest in the warmth over top of the chill across North America through this week and into next as a ridge takes over much of the northern half of Canada but it’s as this warmth takes over, that the typically chilly early August air gets forced south underneath and […]
It was a cool start to Sunday morning across the Upper Midwest extending into the interior Northeast with 36-38F readings recorded over northern Minnesota. As we progress through August, each shot of cool air that comes down will begin to turn cooler and before we know it, it will be lows into the upper 20s and […]
There is little change in the models from recent days with the continued hot, dry weather pushing north from the Southwest all the way up into Western Canada while on the other side of the continent, a cooling northwest flow is drawing Canadian air into the Midwest and East. This weekend into next week looks […]
What a difference a year makes for the Chicago, IL area with more than half of July temperatures staying below normal. According to WGN’s Tom Skilling, the past 9 days have been below normal, in fact some 8.1 degrees below normal. There are other very interesting facts regarding the cool spell Chicago has had. In the […]
Pretty much every model I’ve looked out shows a cool August for the United States with the CFSv2 showing the majority of the Lower 48 cooler than normal since the start of July. The ECMWF and GFS has a mean trough extending from Minnesota to the Mid-Atlantic over the next 7-10 with the ECM showing a deepening upper low over Hudson […]
It’s another chilly late July start from the Dakotas all the way down to the Mid-Mississippi River Valley with record lows extending all the way to Missouri and Illinois as well as Nebraska. As well as this morning’s chill, we saw a lot of record cold highs yesterday. The reason? An unusually strong and cold […]
Beneath laden grey skies and outbreaks of rain, temperatures yesterday only mustered 68 degrees in New York’s Central Park, the coldest July day in 8 years while the day started off at a chilly 33 degrees in Saranac Lake, NY and this morning it hit 36. As for the Big Northeast cities, well it was in the more comfortable lower […]
It has been rather quiet of late across the tropics as you would expect during the early part of the season, however we do now have a named storm on the charts and that name is Dorian. Dorian is a 50 mph storm heading west, northwest at 20 mph beneath the Mid-Atlantic ridge. Pressure is 1002mb. This […]
The pattern has become somewhat benign across the United States in the past week but what’s interesting is that we’re now seeing the evolution of a pattern which may take us towards fall. In other words the end game to summer is showing it’s hand with a trough returning to the East after the recent hot spell and there is […]
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