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The storm which brought rough weather and destructive and even deadly tornadoes to Florida yesterday is bringing snow up the East Coast and for me anyway, a surprise patchy light covering for DC up into Philly. Both BWI and DCA airports in Washington recorded their first measurable snow of the season. Modelling picked up on these […]
I must start today’s write-up with a glance at the formation of the very rare Hurricane Alex, the first January Atlantic Hurricane to form in 78 years. The system is now post tropical and heading towards Greenland so no impact to US but a meteorological rarity which needed to be shown. It had wind and rain […]
The combination of system and lake effect is bringing heavy snow squalls through the Great Lakes and across the Northeast today. With lakes waters so warm and ice free it’s like lighting the fuel for major snowfall to the lee of all the lakes, especially Erie and Ontario. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] It was a chilly start […]
Yesterday was a big day for sport, specifically in Minneapolis where the Minnesota Vikings took on the Seattle Seahawks at the US Bank Stadium in the NFL postseason wildcard game. After starting off the day at a frigid -11F in MSP, the temperature rose to a still bone-chilling -6 with -25 wind chill for kick off. […]
Well that arctic blast we’ve been talking about for quite sometime has arrived over the Northern US. Check out the 20-30 degree drop within the past 24 hours over the north-central states. The next 7-10 days will see waves of arctic air sweep south out of Canada. The system which brought the snow in the […]
We know the cold is coming but unless you have snow on the ground, depth of cold remains limited and for days now, the models had the edge of the ‘snow on the ground’ west of the Big Cities along I-95. However before I go into the talk of snow and cold, check out the subtropical entity […]
According to NOAA the 2015 El Nino has tied 1997-98 as strongest in recorded history. It would appear drought stricken California and the West is reaping the benefits but as per usual in classic powerful El Nino’s, rains and storms come in hard. This is the 5 freeway in north LA this morning. Visible satellite shows […]
The quick hitting arctic blast has delivered as expected and this morning was by far the coldest morning of winter in the East. Temps fell into the 20s down to the Gulf Coast. This morning’s lows. -27 in NW Maine. -24 in Upstate New York, -15 Vermont. It was a cold morning in the Mid-Atlantic. As cold as it […]
For the first time this season arctic air has descended over the Northeast today presenting the first single digits highs over parts of northern New England with widespread 20s and 30s. Fresh snow cover and thicknesses down to 510 over much of the interior Northeast will make for a cold night under clear sky and light […]
Note the persistency in central and eastern US ridging through December, hence record warmth aided by strong polar vortex, west QBO, El Nino etc etc. However, now we’re into January and the stage is set with the first ‘arctic’ air mass, I guess you could call it the first, of the season ascending upon the Northeast tomorrow […]
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