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Well it appears the warming trend is coming for the Northeast after a chilly past few days. The trough lifts out of eastern North America as Leslie now exits. Models continue to show a more impressive trough drop out of Canada and into the Upper Midwest, Lakes and Midwest around the 20th which could push […]
The fire threat across the Western US has continued to grow over the past several weeks and the above chart says it all. Persistently dry conditions, in fact record dry conditions all the way from Coastal Washington and Oregon extending over the continental divide has meant a a mere stray cigarette bud could be enough to start […]
The trough which brought frost and 32F readings to parts of North Dakota this morning and a few days of refreshing 60s and 70s across the Ohio Valley gets replaced by a ridge early this week and so the all too familiar heat and humidity returns to the east. Pretty much all of the US will be back […]
[error] MULTIPLE SIGHTINGS OF A TORNADO OVER QUEENS, NY THIS AM, WARNINGS EXTENDED TILL AT LEAST 11.30AM ET FOR BROOKLYN & QUEENS NY [/error] IF YOU LIVE ANYWHERE FROM BALTIMORE ALL THE WAY UP TO NORTHERN NEW YORK AND VERMONT, BE ALERT TO THE SKIES THROUGHOUT THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING! While the main line of strong to severe thunderstorms […]
Check out these current temperatures above. Upper 60s in the north while it’s 108 in the south, now that’s what you call a temperature spread and life on the Plains in early fall. This cold front has really cleaned out the air from the Canada-US border all the way down through the Plains and will continue south […]
While a significant trough drives autumnal air down across the Northern Plains, Great Lakes, Midwest and eventually the East Coast, ridging is pumping unusual warmth up the western flank of the continent and in fact we may see highs near 100 in Portland, OR and near 90 in Seattle, WA Saturday afternoon. This will be […]
An impressive storm system developed over the Bering Sea about 36 hours ago and during last night brought the system pushed hurricane-force winds onshore across southern Alaska as the central pressure from this winter-like monster plunged to 974 mb. Winds topped 70 to near 90 mph across Anchorage and surrounding hillsides. Power was cut to as […]
Following several days of fighting dry air and shear from an upper low to the west, now it’s shear from the north due to a high which continues to keep Leslie as a 992mb, 65 mph tropical storm. Over the next 2-4 days we are going to start seeing Leslie organise more as conditions over and around the […]
Surely, not… could we actually see Isaac regenerate back over the Gulf of Mexico? Ivan did it in 2004 after taking a big loop over the continental US and this may happen again with Isaac. If you’ve been following, Isaac’s remnant low first entered Louisiana a week ago, then headed north and took a hard […]
While it’s that time of year now when we see more and more cold front drops out of Canada, drawing down that cool, refreshing fall air mass, this time it should drive daytime highs and night lows down well into Texas as well as across the East. A substantial cool shot dives out of Canada starting […]
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