Weather Blog
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 […]
My early thoughts for Winter 2015-16
The building El Niño is big news! I certainly don’t want to downplay it in regards to what might happen this winter. But there is another big player on the board: the warm phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO+) which has deepened the drought in the western United States and was largely responsible for our brutally […]
ilsnow storm center 2/10/15
It’s been a while since I came out with a video. Lots of rumors about big snows the next 3-5 days, but the pattern looks much more impressive for the cold! But, the snows we do get will continue to add up. As always, you can keep with with my daily forecasts at ilsnow.com/weather. If […]
