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No need to add words to the below charts! It’s been warm, record warm. Just because it’s been a record warm fall for many doesn’t necessarily mean winter will follow. In fact I’m sure your well aware of the cold that’s building over northern North America that’s due to plunge south early next week. Going by the […]
By Jonathan Belles, Chris Dolce, and Jonathan Erdman Published Dec 1 2016 06:56 AM EST weather.com The 2016 Atlantic hurricane season featured a combination of destructive hurricanes and climatological oddities in a season that stretched from January through late November. (MORE: Hurricane Central) Tracks of all 2016 Atlantic Basin tropical cyclones (Data: National Hurricane Center) […]
A second major storm within a week has pushed into the Mississippi Valley bringing a variety of extremes over the last 36 hours. On the warm side fire fanning wind gusts over 60 mph, drought relieving flooding rainfall, record warmth and some 2 dozen tornadoes were spawned across the South, said to have killed 5. WILDFIRE DROUGHT RELIEVING […]
Well the models remain persistent at driving building cold over Alaska and Yukon southward into the Western Lower 48, seeded perhaps by some Siberian chill. Plenty of snow next 10 days to lay down the tracks for the polar express… Here’s the latest GFS ensemble showing the hooking up of Pacific and Greenland ridges which […]
We have the next big storm system crossing the Great Basin and is soon to enter the Plains. The system has a distinct warm and cold side with the 2nd significant snowstorm set to hit the Northern Plains while on the warm side, record warmth will be had but not just that. This thing has a distinct […]
After the slow start to the snow season, it looks as though the Western Mountains are set to get plastered by the white stuff as a series of Pacific lows swing onshore. Good chance pretty much every Western mountain above 6,000ft from Cascades to Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains To the Colorado Rockies will see a foot or […]
There have already been two noteworthy stratospheric warming events. Both of which have delivered cold to Asia and Europe but left North America out. November temp anomaly so far. Check out Eurasia vs North America! However could the model projected 3rd stratospheric warming event allow NA to join in on the cold? That’s of course IF […]
With the exception of last winter, the dominant Gulf of Alaska warm pool drove a warm Western/cold Eastern North America winter pattern from 2013 to 2015. The El Nino overruled everything last year. The lack of arctic sea ice those years on the North America/NE Asia side of the pole helped drive a strong blocking high from eastern equatorial […]
The 2016-17’s first major winter storm certainly lived up to the billing. With record warmth flooding the country ahead of the storm and caused by the storm, to a significant blast of snow then cold. It wiped out record 70-80F warmth and dropped temperatures 25-35 degrees within 24 hours from Colorado to Vermont. Denver, CO went from a […]
The season is gradually changing shape as we head towards the final days of November. Ralph Fato pointed out that US snow cover has grown from 1 to 19% within just 2/3 days thanks to the Rockies, Plains snowstorm that’s now transferring into the Northeast. Totals were most impressive in NE Minnesota where there was […]
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