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As warmth tracks northward this week, so snow pack warms and melts further. The deep Northeast snowpack is fair getting chipped away from the ‘southern edges’. All the yellow area is where the model sees snow gone by 48 hours. Still over 40 inch depths up in Maine. [s2If current_user_can(access_s2member_level1)] Flooding Rain Potential 30 Above […]
The spring warmth continues (as expected) to lift north and in response, snow cover continues to shrink. Meteorologist Tim Kelley took this image from outside his Boston home today’s. His snow depth went to 23″ last Friday to 15″ today. These temp anomalies across the country say it all. SPRING FEVER! As stated, 60s have […]
What a difference 10 days makes in March with higher sun angle and increase in solar energy reaching the surface. Even on frigid days that may be well well below freezing, melting still occurs. March opened brutal with over 63% of the Lower 48 snow covered with all but Florida with at least some snow. Today it’s […]
Well for the first times in many WEEKS, it’s rain and not snow that’s of concern, especially as warmer air get’s into the pattern and snow melts. The frigid cold which produced more record cold late last week is now out over the Atlantic and the next system on the playing field is bringing and […]
Last March went down as one of the most brutal in US cold weather history and this March is getting off on a similarly frigid, record breaking note. Last March saw all-time records tumble through the Plains and Midwest. This March is seeing all-time records fall further east. This frigid open to March follows what may have […]
After enjoying the warmest day of the year across south-central Alabama and Georgia, in comes the front… In the words of Fox 6 WBRC-TV Chief Meteorologist James-Paul Dice, “In my 20-year career doing TV weather forecasting, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a temperature drop like that”. In Alabama! From summer back to winter and […]
We might be in March now but little has changed. Yet another major snowstorm is impacting a vast area from Dallas, TX where they’ve received a record 3.5″ all the way to NYC and eventually Boston where they approach their all-time snow record. Here’s a pretty rare sight, snow covered streets of Downtown Dallas early […]
The warmest air of the season has finally made it as far north as Virginia while the first 80s have reached Charleston, SC. In the meantime, while the Southeast enjoys some true spring warmth, yet another major push of cold arctic air is driving into the Heartland. GFS forecasted late PM temps with 70s reaching […]
Let’s take another look at just how incredible February 2015 was once again. You are likely to never see another month like it. I recall 5 to perhaps 10 above or below normal but not 15 to 20 spanning an entire month. An incredible area of the Eastern US has witnessed the coldest or 2, […]
Since it’s March and the sun is climbing higher in the sky, there’s a battle setting up between pattern and seasonal shift. This is the 2nd winter is a row where there’s been a remarkably strong feedback relationship between ocean SST’s and the atmosphere. Ridging has been relentless right where the warm anomaly has been […]
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