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While the first major snows blanket the Sierra Nevada, it’s certainly looking and feeling more like summer from the Rockies on east. Western snow scenes. Kirkwood, CA Bozeman Pass, MT What a difference an overnight snow makes to Cooke City, MT. Winter Wonderland! Yesterday afternoon. Early this morning. Yesterday’s 0.41 inches in San Francisco was […]
The El Nino casts a shadow over the North American upper air pattern this week as the first major winter storm of the season sweeps into the West and likely to drop 1-2ft over the higher elevations of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Utah. Further east, and a monster ridge pumps record warmth north over the Midwest and East through the […]
[s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Will the upcoming winter of 2015-16 trend the same as the past two with record cold and snow or take a turn to warmer, perhaps more like 1997-98? Keep in mind that no El Nino nor certain sea surface temperature profile produces the same type of weather pattern. The below 2015-16 winter forecast is based on Current and […]
It’s looking like a soggy rather than spooky Halloween weekend for many between Appalachians and Rockies as well as over the drought stricken Pacific Northwest. Here’s the QPF rainfall projection through the next 72 hours. Flooding could be an issue from Texas and Louisiana up to the Great Lakes and from Washington and Oregon east into western […]
Texas and Louisiana have a second weekend in a row where they’ll have to contend with heavy, persistent, even flooding rains. It just so happens to be Halloween this weekend with many setting out trick or treating. One good thing about this situation compared to last weekend is that we won’t see quite the same […]
While this week has it’s share of extremes with flooding rain, gales, snow etc, the pattern goes wild next week as the PNA goes negative and NAO goes Positive with major amplification. We could see record cold in the West and record warmth in the East as November commences. Let’s not forget the first major snowfall for the Rockies and […]
I think it’s safe to say that the trough coming down over the Northeast to end this month is nowhere near as strong or cold as I had it. A lot of the reason is the negative hanging back over the Southwest. The big weather story through the rest of this week will be the heavy rains spreading […]
Former Hurricane Patricia continues to wreck havoc on the Southern US after bringing severe flooding across Texas late week into the weekend. Through Sunday and today the focus is on Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama where record rains and further major flooding continues while Texas begins to dry out. Impressive wind and rain reports from Louisiana/southern Mississippi. […]
The current flood situation across Texas is not too dissimilar to what we saw in the Carolinas just 2 weeks ago. A separate system, this time pushing eastwards from the Four Corners, slows and draws on rich Gulf moisture which dumps 10+ inches of rain causing flash flooding. Then the beast that was Hurricane Patricia slams west coast Mexico and as the structural […]
Hurricane Patricia has went from Category 1, 85 mph system to Category 5, 200 mph tempest within a mere 30 hours! It threatens Mexico central Pacific coast with catastrophic destruction tonight! Here’s some imagery and analysis. Eye of Patricia is within 50 miles of the coast. Patricia exploded over unusually warm, El Nino induced […]
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