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The southern is getting fired up this afternoon with a fairly widespread severe threat stretching from west Texas to the Florida Panhandle while on it’s northern edge, it’s bringing a tricky, snowy commute from Denver east into west Kansas and north into Cheyenne, WY. Within 36 hours the energy and moisture is lifting up into […]
As shown in this morning’s video, the potential appears to be on the rise for a major early spring snowstorm up the I-95 corridor Sunday into Monday. Several factors need close monitoring throughout the Friday-Saturday as well as Sunday period. the supply of colder air Today’s system pushes through the Northeast bringing a slow drop […]
Lot’s of uncertainty as we head into the weekend but before we get there we have a major storm system to deal with over the Upper Midwest. Rain, local severe weather on it’s leading edge but strong to potentially damaging wind along with heavy snow on it’s rear may bring blizzard conditions to the western […]
It’s been a record warm first half to March 2016 down the Plains. This is in stark contrast to March 2014 which was coldest on record for the very same area. March 1-14, 2016 March 2014 Interesting to see that winter 2016 saw the lowest sea level pressure over Alaska and Wisconsin. Colder air filters SSE […]
A good start to the rainy season in November-December gave way to a disappointing heart of the rainy season in January-February with drier and warmer than normal conditions. However, the latest series of March storms to slam California has meant San Francisco’s rainy season has went from below to above normal and snowfall in the Sierra is above normal unlike the previous 4 […]
After some brief respite, the next big system slams the West Coast today spreading wind, rain and heavy mountain snow in. Back on Thursday, San Francisco woke to this! Wow! To this today! (San Fran Intl Airport) Very nice visible satellite and infrared animation shows twin lows pushing into NA’s West Coast with rich moisture streaming into Northern California underneath. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] […]
It’s sure been a wild pattern thanks to a highly amplified, fuelled pattern and in March, you get the extremes. With the upper trough over Texas, you get the huge rains, further east, beneath the heat pump of the ridge, you get record ‘summer-like’ warmth! This week’s upper air pattern has been perfect for extreme weather and […]
Well it’s been more like late May or early June from DC up to Boston but this doesn’t mean winter is completely done just yet! Newark topped 82 today, warmest so early! What a difference a year makes for sure! Both EPS control and GFS ensemble see the return of colder times through the 2nd […]
We have an extreme pattern delivering extreme weather and a true upside down temperature profile for mid week. While there’s a +2 standard deviation from normal ridge off the East Coast, we have an extraordinary ‘6 standard deviation below normal’ cut off low dropping into Mexico tomorrow. That cold low could deliver unusual snowfall and record cold temps in […]
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