Weather Blog
Odds of significant snow decreasing: Update 11/5/12
The shorter range models have picked up a trend that would quash the possibility of a significant early season snow for the Adirondacks Wednesday night into Thursday. This GFS panel shows the problem: The two shortwaves (bundles of atmospheric energy) responsible for developing the nor’easter fail to phase. Instead of a large monster storm, we’re […]
Update on Thursday’s possible storm and beyond
The dream is still alive for a possible early season significant snowfall across the Adirondacks, but it’s not in the bag yet. The potential storm is now showing on the shorter range NAM, with the players I talked about last week. This panel shows the blocking low offshore eastern Canada, the Great Lakes trough and […]
Snow Cover Update 11/1/12 & Possible Snow Next Week
Snow cover is expanding over Canada much faster than it was last year: I did a quick comparison for November 1st Canadian snow cover during the past 15 years. The only years with similar or greater snow cover by November 1st were: 2002, 2003 and 2006. Each of the following winters had a least one […]
Hurricane Sandy Recap 10/30/12
Hurricane Sandy blew through the North Country late Monday into early Tuesday with peak wind gusts of 35-50mph in most Adirondack hamlets. Reported rainfall generally ranged from 0.5-1.5 inches in the central and eastern Adirondacks, with 0.5 inches or less in the western Adirondacks. Strong northeast to easterly winds knocked down or uprooted many large […]
Hurricane Sandy Update 10/28/12
Sandy is starting to morph from a hurricane into the Über-Hybrid Nor’easter known as Frankenstorm. In addition to the massive cloud complex that has enveloped the eastern seaboard, you can see drier air wrapping into the eastern sector of the storm (shown by the brown): Some of this dry punch will wrap itself into the […]
