Entries by John Homenuk

Strong cold front will bring Autumn air to Northeast

A strong cold frontal boundary, currently situated across New York State and New England, will drop southward through the Northeast states Friday evening and early Saturday morning. While a north to south moving cold front may seem somewhat uneventful this time of year, the temperature gradient associated with this particular front is quite impressive. Moreover, […]

Long Range: Cooler, active pattern ahead for Central US

Far away from the United States, in the equatorial Pacific, a propagating MJO has some ideas as to how the weather pattern will evolve through early October. Okay, maybe that’s not exactly how it works. But the development of an MJO wave will, in fact, aid in the patterns progression over the United States through […]

Synopsis: Autumn air in the Northeast US late week

A powerful cold front and thermal gradient, associated with a northern stream atmospheric disturbance, will move toward the area later this week. Along with some showers and storms, the front will bring a much cooler and drier airmass, with origins in Canada, allowing temperatures to fall fairly dramatically on Thursday and Friday. This will come […]

Long Range: Autumn cold blasts, southeast ridge

Meteorological Autumn technically began 9 days ago now. Although Hermine took much of the focus off its start and placed it on tropical weather, the first 9 days of the meteorological season have offered an ironically similar pattern to what had been observed over the last month or so of summer. Warmer temperatures have dominated in […]