Weather Blog
“Happy” November!
Confession here: I HATE November. HATE IT!! It’s not quite autumn and it’s not quite winter. It’s the month of 35*F, rain and dark, gloomy days. Only twice in the past 15 years has November segued smoothly into winter: 2003 and 2008. Usually though, it’s a painful and slow wait for winter through a month […]
Lake Effect Snow Update: October 23rd
Here’s a nice teaser: a snow-dusted car in Morehouse this morning! The latest trends are showing a more westerly flow as opposed to west-northwest flow, which spreads the heavy snow over a greater area through the western Adirondacks. The 12Z MesoNAM is painting a large swath of 3-6 inch snowfall from tonight through Thursday night […]
It’s Snow Time!
Snow cover is exploding over south-central Canada, starting to nose into the northern United States:
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. […]