Miguel Pierre

Storms and gusty winds today, more snow ahead?

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I suppose that sometimes you have to throw your hands up and say “fine”. That’s exactly what we’ll be doing this week as we track another potential winter weather event. But lets get to the weather at hand first – it’s stormy, dreary, windy and mild. Showers this morning will give way to cloudy and drizzly conditions during the late morning and early afternoon as a warm front moves northward. Southerly winds will pick up as the warm front moves towards the NYC Area near noontime.

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John Homenuk

Storm Chase 2018: You have to start somewhere

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In 2017, I drove my soft top convertible into Nebraska to storm chase for the first time in my life. I had moved to Minneapolis a few months before, so this was only a natural decision for me to make. Driving a soft top convertible around tornadic supercells isn’t exactly advice i’d be giving anyone else, but it was an amazing experience for me – and it is suffice to say that I have been itching to get back out there.

I don’t claim to be any sort of expert in chasing storms – 2017 was my first crack at this. Since my first chase, I have been lucky enough to meet and interact with many folks who are extremely knowledgeable, and I am working each day to apply my meteorological ability and to learn more about how to chase these storms. This year, I will be storm chasing for over a week. I am lucky enough to be bringing a DSLR camera with me, and recording video in 4k resolution. I’ll have the opportunity to produce video and photos that I hope will be extremely rewarding – and more importantly, I will have the opportunity to chase supercells for several days and document it all; a dream of mine since I was just a kid.

I’ll be chasing from May 25th to June 3rd , and in the next series of blog posts I’ll do my best to outline my research and thought process in determining where to set up “base camp” and how I think the week (and season) will progress.

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John Homenuk

Snow likely Monday morning with quick hitting system

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Monday’s Weather Rating | 2/10 (Bad)

Good afternoon and Happy Easter to those who celebrate! For those of you who enjoyed the beautiful Spring weather this weekend, we have some bad news for you. A weak storm system sliding to the south for the region is expected to strengthen a bit from later Sunday into early Monday morning, with the low pressure center passing off the Mid Atlantic coast during the early morning hours of Monday. Impressive lift along a frontal boundary will allow precipitation to expand and become more steady in nature from late Sunday into Monday.

The system comes right on the edge of an unusually cold airmass that is sliding southward into the Northeast States today. It’s timing is impeccable, really – any faster and the airmass would be too warm for any wintry precipitation, and any slower and the colder air would likely press further south and keep the system more suppressed. Instead, the disturbance comes right along the frontal boundary and will provide wintry precipitation the Northern Mid Atlantic again.

 

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