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With a western trough, eastern ridge this past weekend, we’ve seen unusually chilly and even snowy conditions from the Sierra to Wasatch with highs in north-central Nevada only mustering 45 degrees for a high but east of the Rockies and particularly east of the Mississippi and blistering heat was widespread on the other side of the jet. 100s sizzled the high […]
To say the weather has been a little upside down in the Western side of North America lately is probably a bit of an understatement. While parts of Alaska experienced record snow and cold during the first few days of June, recent days has been all about the heat with the first 90s of the year and in fact […]
Extremely heavy rain has recently fallen over Florida and the Global Precipitation Measurement or GPM mission core satellite looked at that some of that rainfall on June 7. Rainfall records were broken on that date as the GPM satellite passed overhead from space. On June 7, GPM found rain falling at a rate of over […]
Yesterday was record cold by early June standards across the Northeast. Beneath laden skies, the thermometer failed to get out of the 50s as far south as New Jersey and 40s in parts of New England. Amazingly by the time we reach the end of the weekend, many sites will have recorded 90s with records […]
While the Southwest sweats in 105-110F and 80s and 90s extending all the way up to the interior Pacific Northwest with records likely to fall, it’s very different on the other side of the continent with an unusually cool trough with plenty of thick cloud trapped beneath covering the Northeast. Check out the contrast between Northwest and Northeast both at 2 […]
Drought conditions remain across Florida with extreme drought remaining between Orlando and Lake Okeechobee. Given the past weekend’s deep tropical moisture surge and anticipated rains through the next week or so, a significant dent to the Sunshine State’s drought is likely. The combination of southward dipping jet stream and semi organised system in western Gulf […]
By Jon Erdman Jun 2 2017 05:00 PM EDT weather.com Story Highlights An area of the Gulf of Mexico will be watched for possible tropical development into next week. Possible development may involve a remnant of an eastern Pacific system. This is an area prone to tropical development in June. Regardless of development, heavy rain […]
What a difference a year ending May last year verses this year for New York and Northeast… May ’16 ended toasty in the Big Apple but this year, I guess the AC can remain off. What’s interesting is while May end hot in the Northeast last year, it was a colder month overall compared to this year. […]
What an incredible display and variety of extreme weather on all corners of North America these days. While it snowed in Newfoundland, Alaska likely experienced it’s coldest late May system on record with temperatures of -37F at 17,000ft and an all-time record May snow in Barrow, all the while Sunday was one of Miami’s hottest days ever, never mind hottest in May. Snow covered ground in […]
Another weekend, another storm with extremes. This time it’s the Memorial Day weekend where there’s a lot of outdoor activity from travelling to grilling. You know the drill, cool, dry Canadian air sweeps out of Alberta over the Rockies while hot builds up the West Coast and hot, humid conditions from Texas to Florida thanks to flow from Caribbean and […]
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