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It’s Snow Time!
Snow cover is exploding over south-central Canada, starting to nose into the northern United States: If you find my posts valuable, please consider making a donation to help me keep the good times rolling! 🙂
Ready, Set, Snow!
Last week, I started talking about a major pattern shift that would bring much colder weather here before the end of October. The proof is always in the pudding and changes are already underway. In layman’s terms: the dominoes are starting to fall! The warmth that has dominated October will begin to give way to […]
Colder to End October 2013
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Here is a nice picture of how the snow pack is spreading, compared to normal for this time of year: The purple shows where snow cover is expanding greater than climatology. The red shows where there is a lack of snow cover in comparison to normal. […]
Warm October 2013
You’ll need to book a flight, drive a long way, or just go on Facebook to find any snow for at least the next couple of weeks. Right now, snow cover over the lower United States is limited to the highest elevations of the Rocky Mountains. If you find my posts valuable, please consider making […]
Early Adirondack Outlook for Winter 2013-14
The start of August is usually way too early for me to seriously start looking into what kind of winter we might have. But there are a couple of strong signatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans that have grabbed my attention. Why are ocean temperature patterns so important? Water has high specific heat when […]