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No doubt, it was a COLD morning by April 10 standards over the Eastern United States. However, with 18″ in just 2 days followed by an arctic high, the cold price appears to go to Canaan Valley within the Allegheney Mountains of West Virginia which dipped ‘unofficially’ -8F this morning. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Major Denver snowstorm next weekend? GFS surface/precip This […]
Why are we seeing snowstorms followed by mid winter cold in April? Thank or blame the huge stratospheric warming back in late March. The below infrared satellite imagery shows extremely cold air (yellow) sweeping down over Ontario. The system pushing from Ohio to New Jersey will open the door to a February strength air mass tonight […]
This unusually wintry open to April continues with the latest snow system now departing the Midwest and entering the Northeast. A cold Canada is feeding this system like it did the last and will make for an impressive snow swath through N Ohio, northern Pennsylvania and quite possibly North Jersey and Greater NYC by tomorrow. I’m not backing away from […]
We know that’s it’s going to warm up and remain warm but the question is when? According to the GFS ensemble, we begin to see the ridge take over day 10-14 and that’s really from April 15 onwards… [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] What’s rather interesting however is that the typically warm CFSv2 weeklies hold the cold through the […]
At this time of year it’s hard to keep snow on the ground and without it, it’s hard to stay cold by day, especially when the sun is shining. The past two morning’s started off exceptionally cold for April and the past two days have been incredible with highs only managing the 20s and 30s. […]
Well system No 2 delivered as expected in a swath from southern Ontario to Cape Cod. Skies cleared quickly in it’s wake allowing visible satellite to pick up what was left behind. Check out southern Ontario’s snow cover contrast between March 29 and April 4. Despite the longer days and much higher, stronger sun angle, this […]
The true spring-like warmth of late last week was dramatically erased from Midwest to Northeast this past weekend as a powerhouse cold front with vort max packing gale-force gusts swept through Sat into Sun. This forced the rapid development of low pressure on exiting New England. The result was widespread wind gusts of 30-60 mph which tore down trees and power lines from Maine […]
Models are often far apart in their solutions, especially the further out you go. However, both EPS Control and GFS ensemble remain adamant on a textbook Greenland blocking pattern developing and entering a mature state within 6-10 days. This supports a more persistent or stubborn trough connecting the north shore of Hudson Bay to Florida. Hope you’ve enjoyed […]
We have a large and powerful storm system continuing it eastward journey through the Lakes and eventually up into Canada. It’s brought all weather types with heavy snow and blizzard conditions across parts of Wyoming, Nebraska and into Colorado, summer-like warmth up the East Coast while there’s been devastating tornadoes over parts of Oklahoma and the South. Note in the […]
While there may be a major shot of late season arctic air heading south into the Northeast, there is however a sign of the fast approaching summer season in South Texas today. McAllen topped out at 100 degrees, a full 6 degrees over the previous record and I believe this may well be the first […]
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