Behind the wind and rain tonight, we’ll have a hard crash in temperatures into Thursday through the early weekend. The pattern adjusts and begins regeneration – starting today and ending in about 7 days. That doesn’t mean we’re going to see warmth that entire time — but we’re on the roller coaster ride of cold, …
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The Week Ahead – Snowmaking & Light Snow
If you’ve been around teenagers in the last year, you’ve probably heard the term “full send” — so I’m deeming this week “full send snowmaking” — we have lots of opportunity, often times through the day, all the way through the weekend. This may vacillate a bit more in the Mid-Atlantic as we have more …
The Week Ahead – Pattern Change Settles In 11/25
We’ve been talking about a pattern change for two weeks now, but it’s taken some time to settle in, delivering some waves of precipitation and slight warmth within it, but ultimately providing a big trend toward cold, and possibly snowy. The big talk of the town this week is a Thanksgiving storm that the models …
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The Week Ahead: Pattern Change Continues 11/18
Our pattern change began last week, and we’re continuing the trend of change into this week with a cut-off low impacting us into the latter part of the week. While there’s a shallow cold air mass settling in tonight and Tuesday, it’s just that — shallow. We’ll see some temperature modification heading through Wednesday before …
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The Week Ahead 11/11 – Sneaky Cold
After another briefly warm day, we are heading into a much anticipated pattern change. We have a strong cold front on the way Monday night which will bring a cold air mass (and quite a bit of wind) for Tuesday, Wednesday and even into Thursday. The core of the cold settles in by 7pm Tuesday …
The Cold…Unknowns
It’s the second week in a row of seeing 70+ degrees across many areas in the Northeast. However, right now most of our patterns are being influenced by the reactivated tropics, as we continue to see a neutral ENSO cycle take shape. Most tropical activity shunts cold spells to the north, or keeps them quite …
The Week Ahead 3/11
The rollercoaster ride continues into the second week of March, but overall we are colder. Windy conditions persist into Tuesday, with gusty NW winds continuing in most areas and upslope snows coming to an end in the favored slopes. Those with the upslope topography are nearing or surpassing two feet of new snow from the …
Long Term 3/8
We’re entering back into more of a winter like pattern as El Niño drops down to more of a moderate phase. However, with March comes a stronger sun angle, and therefore we’re inherently running warmer in storm systems. Lower heights return to the east for Days 7-14. The AO/NAO are slightly negative, but not overwhelmingly …
Week Ahead 3/4
The week ahead has a little bit of everything involved except for major cold. But there’s warmth, cooling, rain and snow possible through Sunday. Currently a relatively weak coastal system is generating off the eastern seaboard. This skirts along the east coast and eventually joins in with a front slicing through from the west later …
Long Term 3/1
We’re heading into a warm week next week, but the pattern should be shifting thereafter. Before that, this cold lasted a little long than expected, with the coastal low coming up on Saturday. It’ll bring some showers, but temperatures stayed in the 20’s today and 30’s Saturday, when initially it looked like the 40’s for …