Pacific North American Oscillation
Don’t fall in love with it!
Whenever I borrow something from my father, he always tells me: “Don’t fall in love with it!” That is Dad’s way of telling me to return the borrowed item promptly when I’m done using it. In a similar way, any cold weather we expect to get through at least mid-November and probably a while beyond […]
Pre-Thanksgiving Storm?
The Arctic Oscillation is starting to shift and I believe that may lead to our first widespread significant snowfall of the early winter season by the middle of next week. Before we get into any talk about big snow, there is a major cold blast to talk about for Sunday the 24th. This is an […]
“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 […]
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. […]
