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UPDATE: A storm total of 15.8 inches recorded at Minneapolis-St Paul Intl Airport between 13-16 April makes for the biggest April total in recorded history. https://twitter.com/JMichaelsNews/status/985898341572726784 https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/985919934525050886 The period between January 1 through April 14 is also snowiest on record now for MSP. https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/985696164006809600 First it was the coldest first 8 days and now coldest […]
A textbook powerhouse spring low is spinning over the Plains producing a full blown blizzard in South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas while a major severe weather outbreak is likely to unfold within the warm sector. Upwards of 2ft of snow and drifts in excess of 4-8ft courtesy of 60+mph winds is expected on the northwest […]
It’s been a truly historic opening week to April 2018. In fact there’s never been a colder start (in recorded history) for many cities in the Dakotas and Minnesota and for others, including Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana and Ohio, the coldest in at least 80 years. Amazing to see 20 to 25 below normal for […]
It’s a highly active rainy pattern for California and here’s a great article from Daniel Swain and the setup and more. Where do things stand now? The last blog post was about another incoming warm, wet Pineapple Express-style atmospheric river storm. That one did indeed end up packing a punch, but that punch landed a […]
What a brutal open to April for the North-Central US. Perhaps the opening week of the month will go down as one of the coldest on record for the Northern Plains/Upper Midwest. Yesterday morning observed the coldest April night on record for some. https://twitter.com/NWSChicago/status/981514513068515328 https://twitter.com/NWSAberdeen/status/981573833579749376 It bottomed out at 8 degrees which turns out […]
April has opened wild and doesn’t appear over yet either. It was one very cold opening day to April for the North-Central US. With a high of 31 and low of 12, Minneapolis not only endured it’s coldest Easter in a decade but it was the coldest April Fools Day since 2002. https://twitter.com/NWSTwinCities/status/980617115811053569 and there’s […]
Great piece from Chief Meteorologist Eric Fisher looking at the extreme ups and down of the Boston winter in 2017-18. March 30, 2018 at 10:13 pm Well, it’s just about in the books. We’re not done with snow chances just yet but the sun is about to win the seasonal battle and we’re slowly pushing […]
A system separating cool from arctic shall speedily sweep ESE this weekend reopening the door to winter once again despite it being April. Not one but two significant snow systems are poised to sweep across Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota into Wisconsin over the next 7 days with reinforcing shots of late season arctic air. https://twitter.com/NWSBismarck/status/979802596973084673 […]
Just in time for the long Easter weekend, if your out and about across the Southwest, water, sun cream and shades will be required but bundle up if your east of the Rockies as arctic air makes a return. Note in the below GFS 500mb height anomaly and 850mb temp anomaly charts the bulging West […]
March turned out colder than February for much of the Eastern US. Despite a cold month, March is ending mild but that doesn’t mean winter is done quite yet. It was certainly a cold March for the interior Mid-Atlantic. With recent days seeing a trough in both Southwest and Southeast, it’s turned early summer-like in […]
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