Weather Blog
Pain! Update 1/29/13
Although the upcoming Thaw will be short lived, it will be very damaging. Here’s the setup for the main event Wednesday night into early Thursday: We’ve got a monster storm carving its way through the Great Lakes tapping into a subtropical plume. Not good at all! Meso-NAM is depicting widespread 1-2 inch rain with localized […]
State of the Winter Address: Update 1/25/13
Let’s try a game called Guess Which Winter: Winter A (through January 25th): Significant snowfall around 8 inches just before Thanksgiving (Good for a lawn jockey ride!). Warm December with little snow. January also warm with nickel and dime snow events that constantly got negated by thaw and rain. But a couple of modest snows […]
Monday Night Snow: Update 1/20/13
Just because we’re not going to have a classic “storm” doesn’t mean we’re going to get skunked for snow Monday night. There is a saying that it can get too cold for snow. If that is true, why do the Arctic and Antarctic get snow? This panel shows the scenario for Monday night: Cold air […]
Brrrr! Get Ready for the Deep Freeze! Update 1/19/13
A major arctic outbreak is on the way for next week. A storm traversing southern Canada will begin to open the floodgates on Sunday: Despite the arctic air pouring over the Great Lakes, Sunday will not feature an epic lake effect snow event due to considerable wind shear (wind direction changing with time and altitude). […]
Winter’s Path to Redemption: Update 1/15/13
Much has been made about Lance Armstrong’s “Path to Redemption.” But I’m here to talk about something that’s actually important: Winter’s Redemption. It turns out that January Thaw has caused people to forget the big snow blitz that we had to close out December, like it never happened! Well it DID happen and we’re going […]
