El Niño
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 […]
Looking into Winter 2014-15
Yes, it’s early to be thinking about what Winter 2014-15 may hold for us. But don’t let that stop us from having some fun! The Pacific Ocean is a vast heat reservoir. Remember that water has high specific heat capacity, meaning that it takes a long time to heat up and cool down. The larger […]
