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By Linda Lam Feb 1 2017 05:15 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights January 2017 was one of the warmest on record for many areas of the East. Locations in California and the South that desperately needed rain experienced a record wet month. January was much wetter and warmer than average for parts of the United […]
The Western US has enjoyed bright, sunny days this past weekend following a wild and wet first 20 days of January. This high pressure respite is about to end as a 200+ mph Pacific jet is about to drive more storms across California and the West. An additional 2-4ft expected in the already buried High Sierra around […]
For the last 10-15 days, storms have pounded California and the West almost constantly while Pacific air sweeping out ahead of each system has reinforced the eastern ridge and January thaw. It’s been a perfect open to 2017 for California. As we enter the weekend, we have quite the different upper air pattern to what we’ve been use to thanks to […]
By Chris Dolce, Jonathan Belles Jan 25 2017 04:00 PM EST weather.com Since the beginning of the year, California has dealt with storm after storm, each one piling up more snow on top of the last storm’s snow. The last six winter storms — Gregory, Helena, Iras, Jupiter, Kori and Leo — all passed through […]
Following an impressive early December Arctic Outbreak followed by January thaw, February looks promising for Midwest/Eastern and quite likely Western winter lovers given the forecasted SSWE (sudden stratospheric warming event) but if the CFSv2 is anything to go by and we know it’s flaws, rainfall looks to significantly taper off in California and the West. January temp anomaly so […]
There’s a full-scale January thaw underway across the Lower 48 while Alaska shivers in it’s coldest spell for 5 years. As is typically the case, some of the Lower 48’s mildest winters has seen some of Alaska’s coldest. As stated in my winter forecast back in November, the likely absence of the North Pacific warm pool […]
The current Alaska cold has peaked and is beginning to pull back. Check out this amazing image showing the intense cold nestled within interior mountain valleys south of the Brooks Range via infrared imagery. Today, Fairbanks didn’t achieve the same temperature as the -51F yesterday morning but it looks like there was a -61F at the Kanuti Lake SCAN station this morning. […]
While the truly arctic air lifts out of the Lower 48, it’s regrouping and intensifying up across Alaska and Northern Canada. For the Alaskan interior, including Fairbanks, Wednesday morning was the coldest of winter and coldest in 5 years! Fairbanks recorded an official low of -50F this morning, coldest in 5 years when it hit -51F back on January 29, 2012. Interestingly this […]
What a difference 10 days makes! The last round of excessive rain and snowfall essentially ended the California drought north of I-80, that’s 40% but drought remains in Southern California. San Francisco got more rain in the first 8 days of 2017 than in all of 2013! With 350 billion gallons of water pouring into Northern California lakes […]
By Jesse Ferrell, AccuWeather meteorologist 1/13/2017, 9:37:01 PM Extreme weather hit the West this week, with the heaviest snow and rain in years — and some flooding that exceeded levels established in 1940. Here are the most impressive snowfalls (via OnTheSnow.com and the ski slope’s websites and Facebook pages): Mammoth Mountain, CA: 184 inches (15.3 […]
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