Yesterday, I posted an article about “WINTER IS COMING!” Well, folks from the southern Appalachians, across parts of the mid-Atlantic, and throughout New England are getting ready to experience said WINTER. A massive winter storm is developing along the Carolina coastline and will be moving to near Cape Cod by
Read DetailsFor this article, I’m stealing a line from “Game of Thrones” – “WINTER IS COMING!” December 1 marked the start of meteorological winter (meteorologists define the months of December, January, and February as being winter); astronomical winter starts about three weeks later (when the earth, in its orbit around the
Read DetailsHow many of you have seen “Groundhog Day – The Movie?” How many of you have seen it over and over again? How many of you have picked up on the myriad of meteorological and other flaws that the movie contains? Well, my wife and I have been viewing the
Read DetailsBULLETIN: Four Naples groundhogs spied their shadows early Thursday morning. Hence, look for six more weeks of south Florida winter. Yahoo! Punxsutawney Phil does not have a sterling record of furcasting the weather for the last six weeks of winter, even though the official Punxsutawney web site says otherwise. I
Read DetailsThe National Weather Service has issued “lake effect” snow warnings and advisories for areas to the east of Lakes Erie and Ontario through Sunday evening (Fig. 1). These forecasts call for locally heavy snow and wind-blown snow with associated hazardous driving conditions. Forecasts for areas in New York State downwind
Read DetailsIt’s only a couple of days into spring and the big weather news involves SNOW. In fact, we are talking about a lot of snow. Wisconsin is bracing for a foot of snow or more across central and eastern sections between now and Thursday. The northeast corner of Colorado (including
Read DetailsThis morning’s national watch-warning map (Fig. 1) shows almost all the weather you’d ever want to see, all at once. Some extreme weather hazards (e.g., hurricane, severe weather, flash flooding and blizzard) are absent; however, just about everything else, “weather,” is expected to occur somewhere across the 48-states. Wind advisories
Read DetailsSpring (astronomical spring, that is) officially arrived over the weekend and the weather pattern is definitely taking on a springtime appearance (well, sort of)! Temperatures may be above average in many places, but don’t discount winter, just yet. During the past few days, many forecasters focused on the potential for
Read DetailsYesterday’s winter-spring storm produced lots of severe weather on its eastern flank, but it also generated a band of heavy snow to its west. Just to the east of Chicago, IL, the infamous “rain-snow” line helped to create a rather large snowfall gradient. That gradient (0.44 inches of snow per
Read DetailsWell advertised, the “Blizzard of 2016” is well underway. Early this Saturday morning (Jan. 23, 2016), a few locations across the mid-Atlantic had already netted double-digit snowfall numbers. Heavy snow was continuing to fall from near the Washington, DC area northeastward into southeastern Pennsylvania, western New Jersey and parts of
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