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While it will be seasonably cold and snowy Out West this week, warmth builds up the Eastern Seaboard once again thanks to a storm system over the Plains. It’s still a few days out but there strong model agreement arm surge peaks Christmas Eve supporting temps 30 above normal widely. ALL-TIME December records may be threatened too with this […]
Every weekend in the run up to New Year I thought it might be good to take a step back in time and relive some of America and Europe’s very worst, most extreme winters of the last 100+ years. The 1935-36 winter was tough for the majority of the US but particularly so for the Northern Rockies and Plains. For extreme cold, […]
In today’s post and final one of the week, I thought it would be appropriate to take a first in-depth look at the weather for Christmas week when 100 million are expected to hit the roads. In recent times, a strong Atlantic high positioned just off New England has helped deflect a very active Pacific storm cycle […]
Before I get into today’s post I wanted to share with you a video taken by NOAA of the full lifecycle of the record tying 924mb Pacific bomb which came off China and blasted Alaska. This is a breathing capture of meteorological beauty, perfection and power. As the above title states, we’re heading for a very important crossroads. Late […]
If your loathing this abnormal, May-like 60-70-degree warmth from Mississippi to East Coast, your about to get a taste of December normality, a rude awakening this weekend in the Northeast as daytime temps hold in the 30s, 40s with stiff NW winds sparking heavy lake-effect snows downwind of the boiling Great Lakes. This weekend is a BRIEF taste of something a little more December-like […]
Based on the warmth already seen and the model projection through the remainder of month, this is highly likely to be one of the warmest December on record for the Lower 48. Last 7 day mean Month to date MJO, AO, NAO All Point To Continued Warmth The Rest Of December! Note the MJO remains in warm phases […]
Warmth which broke 100-year records this past weekend shall remain the big weather story as we enter mid-December. Article from weather.com Hundreds of Records Broken as December Warmth Sends Temperatures Up To 30 Degrees Above Average Published: 3 hours 46 min ago weather.com A very mild weather pattern by December standards has engulfed a large swath of the […]
It’s been a remarkably warm mid-December weekend in the East while in stark contrast, it’s been snowy with even blizzard conditions 1000 miles to the SW. Yesterday’s record highs. Today’s records tied or broken! While spring flowers blossomed and folks took a stroll about in their shorts and t-shire, heavy snow and even blizzard conditions on the Texas/Oklahoma […]
Every weekend in the run up to New Year I thought it might be good to take a step back in time and relive some of America and Europe’s very worst, most extreme winters of the last 100+ years. From Rick Grow Nineteen years ago, a brutal and, in some places, historic cold snap impacted the U.S. and Canada. […]
It’s a busy weekend of weather coming up with a storm system winding up over the Plains. We’ll see winter in the west and summer in the east with a mix of flooding rain, snow, possibly ice and severe weather in between. Behind this storm system, temps will run 10-20 below normal while it’s 20-30 […]
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