Miguel Pierre

Mild December Likely to Continue…Pattern Change for January?

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About one week into Meteorological Winter, much of the meteorological community is aware that the coming weeks are not likely to offer many wintry precipitation prospects. Our long range outlook will discuss the meteorological pattern for the upcoming 30 to 45 days. With an in depth look into meteorological patterns and the developing global circulations, we’ll explain the processes occurring that will drive our weather pattern through the rest of this month and into January.

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Miguel Pierre

December likely to be mild, Nor’Easter possible next week

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Three days into Meteorological Winter, much of the meteorological community is aware that the coming weeks are not likely to offer many wintry precipitation prospects. Our long range outlook will discuss the meteorological pattern for the upcoming 30 to 45 days. With an in depth look into meteorological patterns and the developing global circulations, we’ll explain the processes occurring that will drive our weather pattern through the month of December and into the first 10 days of January.

Today we discuss the middle of December and look more into pattern between X-mas and New Years.

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Miguel Pierre

The meteorology, and stats, behind the 2015 Hurricane Season

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Meteorological Winter began today, and the 2015 Hurricane Season officially ended yesterday, marking a transition in seasons — and the attention of meteorologists worldwide. While the season will be remembered for a few more significant storms, the overall season in the Atlantic was quiet. There were 11 named storms and one more tropical depression. Four of those named storms became hurricanes and two of those became major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher). The number of named  storms is actually about average for Atlantic hurricane seasons between 1966-2009. But the number of hurricanes is below the average of 6 for the season. Only two storms made landfall in the in the United States: An early season tropical storm named Ana over North Carolina in May, and then Tropical Storm Bill over Texas in June. There hasn’t been a major hurricane landfall in the United States since Hurricane Wilma in 2005 — which is now 10 years ago.

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