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It’s been and continues to be an active Pacific-North America pattern and the atmospheric dynamics are changing with the season. Of course eastern Montana, Wyoming, North and South Dakota just got hit by a record Christmas Day blizzard, their 2nd blizzard in 2 weeks! Bismarck is seen it’s snowiest season to date thanks to the back […]
Mark, Karen and Holly would like to wish you all a very Merry and Blessed Christmas 2016.
Thanks to a large and powerful storm, Christmas Day will be a day of extremes with blizzard conditions over the Dakotas while record warmth, flooding rain and tornadoes is expected across the South. Record warmth is highly likely with southerly winds ahead of the storm’s cold front. NEXT POST/VIDEO WILL BE TUESDAY 27 DECEMBER. I […]
After a warm fall and focus of hemispheric cold over Eurasia, the tide turned in December as the weak, fluid polar vortex shifted into a favourable position to deliver one of North America’s strongest December cold outbreaks in the last 20 years. What a difference a month makes! November December to date A simple shift in […]
The latest Pacific storm system shall push across the Pacific Northwest Friday, Rockies Saturday and Plains Sunday bringing wind, rain and snow but while there’s a large cold side to this storm, there’s an even bigger warm side where flooding rain and severe weather shall be a real threat. The system shall bring powerful winds along the […]
Before I get into today’s topic, here’s WeatherBug and Weather.com’s forecast for white Christmas prospects. Afterall we do have a storm to contend with… Historic chances? There’s a high level of uncertainty as we head towards New Year and beyond. While the GFS and EPS Control show an Alaska to Greenland negative extending into the WESTERN […]
Quick look back at Saturday and we saw a 136 degree swing between coldest and warmest. Changes afoot as we head for Christmas. Flow switches from Polar to Pacific. Another storm slides into the West bringing a potentially wet Christmas weekend from Seattle to San Diego, snowy into the Sierra and Intermountain West but mild […]
It will be a December Arctic Outbreak to remember with the strongest arctic front/air mass is descend over the Lower 48 in several years. For some it was the coldest December weather since 1996. This 3rd arctic air mass to descend North America within 10 days remained powerful with the aid of an expansive snowpack. Highlights Aberdeen, SD […]
Published Dec 18 2016 12:14 PM EST weather.com Story Highlights The second of two arctic cold blasts in the past week has plunged into the central and eastern states, setting more than two dozen record lows. Temperatures will be dangerously cold in some areas, with wind chills in the teens, 20s, 30s and 40s below […]
The pattern was on a warm repeat cycle from August through November and now appears to be on a cold one, albeit shorter duration with arctic wave then snowstorm followed by another arctic wave followed by another snowstorm and then the coldest air mass of the 3 sweeps in Sunday! Before we look at the snow and following cold, […]
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