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[warning] EXPECTED SNOW TOTALS: PORTLAND, ME 23-26″, BOSTON, MA 24-28″, PROVIDENCE, RI 24-25″, HARTFORD, CT 23-26″, NEW YORK, NY 12-18″, PHILADELPHIA, PA 1-4″ [/warning] Northeast: Playground For Extreme Weather Geography plays a huge role in making the Northeastern US a wild place to live sometimes. The climate is classified as MARITIME CONTINENTAL. Despite being situated right on the Atlantic Ocean, temperatures can […]
We have a weather situation evolving over the Lower 48 which is likely to bring an historic blizzard to the Northeast. It’s a textbook scenario with arctic air over southeast Canada drifting into the Northeast US while two branches of the jet stream are active with both northern and southern branches having a storm which will converge. The first, riding the northern branch across […]
There are two systems the models are picking up on over the next 3-6 days, both of which remain out over the Pacific ocean right now but as the pattern shifts towards late week with a trough returning to the West, so these storm ride in on a strong Pacific jet. These systems will bring big snows […]
A strong jet tearing across the Pacific, like we’ve seen here in the UK, will once again alter the upper level pattern across the Lower 48 once again by late week, the next major winter storm will bring more big snows to the Intermountain West including Salt Lake City and Denver where it has been mild over the […]
It has been a decent weekend for snows stretching from North Dakota down through Chicago and into the Mid-Atlantic and even southern Appalachains with some potent lake-effect bands bringing 6-10, locally 12-18 inches of snow to parts of Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Upstate New York but another TWO systems will make an impact tonight into […]
Last night was in fact the coldest night of winter for North Dakota and western Minnesota while cold extended all the way to New York City and down to the Sunshine State. Northern North Dakota and Minnesota endured the coldest air in the nation once again with lows in spots hovering at between -25 and -35 by daybreak but air temperatures were […]
It really hasn’t been much of a winter this year across Chicago although, while snow has been sparse, it is colder than last winter at least. This morning marked the 2nd subzero low of the season at O’Hare International Airport and according to WGN-TV Chief Meteorologist Tom Skilling, the low of 0 and wind chill near -20, makes […]
Tonight may very well be the coldest of winter up in North Dakota and over parts of Northern Minnesota as temps dive into the -20s and 30s but it won’t be for the Arrowhead region as they’ve managed to get down to -42 already. For Chicago it’s heading for 0 by dawn, single digits all the way […]
As we look out into the longer term, there appears to be a swaying towards an up and down temperature profile through the first 15 days of February. The NAO and AO are going negative in the 7-10 day and with the PNA currently positive, the snapper in the works’ may be that it returns […]
Boy what an incredible turnaround we are seeing across the Midwest over the past 24 to 48 hours as long standing warm records fell but now that the front has barrelled through Iowa, Illinois and adjacent areas, these same areas are now enduring a major winter storm with parts of Iowa receiving 1-2″ per hour snow rates, powerful icy winds accompanied by blowing and drifting. Nearly […]
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