Long Term Views

A quick note on the long term views ahead of the holiday weekend… After a temperate week between Christmas and New Year’s, it’s likely for us to see a return to some cooler temperatures for the first week of January. We have the SE ridge that continues to build in the coming week, and starts …

Christmas Storm System

We’ve been keeping close tabs on this Christmas storm system for quite some time now. The SE ridge has had a significant impact on storm tracks and models seem to be confused by storm progression, strength, and overall structure of systems moving overtop the ridge into the Atlantic. By Christmas afternoon, the showers have moved …

The Week Ahead – Unstable Temps, Several Storms

With this progressive pattern into the holiday weekend, we’re seeing wild movements in temperatures as air masses quickly move in and out of regions, which means a continuation of non-diurnal temperature patterns with rising overnight temperatures and falling daytime temperatures becoming commonplace through Thursday. We’ll have two low pressure systems moving through the eastern half …

Long Term Views 12/17

Last week we went over a lot of information in several different topics (teleconnections, ensembles and long term) and what we found was that there were several contradicting factors. In the end, we came to the conclusion that it wasn’t the worst of places to be in, because it typically meant that we were dealing …

First Decent Snow to Come Saturday Night

We have our first major snow of the season for the east as a low pressure rides along the stalled front that moves through tonight. While we’re still waiting for our first major snow, this will have to do to get us through Christmas week (although there are some other storms to come before Christmas). …