Weather Blog
Winter in trouble, already? Update 11/30/15
We didn’t have snow on the ground for Thanksgiving and some people think winter is dead before it started. The problem with that line of thinking? How much snow we get in November has little consequence in regards to how the winter turns out. To get the true scope of what’s going on, we must step back […]
Winter Outlook: Update 11/5/15
Siberian Snow Cover Throughout October, the spread of snow cover from Siberia into Eurasia was ahead of climatological schedule. The books have closed on October 2015 Eurasian snow cover and the numbers are impressive. This chart snows a very robust Eurasian snow cover at the end of October: The relative lack of snow cover in Alaska and […]
Siberian Snow Cover: Update 10/19/15
That cold blast we had over the weekend was a nice jolt! The mountains got plastered white and some of the lower elevations got a small covering of snow. Temperatures barely cracked 32*F at the ilsnow.com storm center on Sunday afternoon, which was nearly 20*F below normal for October 18th. Very impressive cold! What’s Next? By […]
Weekend flakes! Update 10/13/15
Hey, hey! It’s time to get excited about a bit of snow for the weekend. This is not going to be some early season freak storm, but any snow this time of year moves the needle. I alluded to this “event” last weekend on ilsnow Facebook and it’s had good ensemble support for a while now. […]
Winter 2015-16 Outlook: Update 10/7/15
I tried to get a video up for Tuesday, but the procedure to translate the screenshot capture into a video crashed twice. To spend so much time preparing the video and to have it go up in flames is not good use of my time. So, I have decided to discontinue the weather videos until I […]
