Entries by John Homenuk

NASA imagery captures massive CME

As benign and inactive as the weather pattern has been the last several days in the NYC Area, the sun has been conjuring up some major developments. And it’s acting up again. On Monday a corona mass ejection, otherwise known as a CME, occurred on the edge of the sun. CME’ s are common during […]

Does blocking in May hint at summer weather?

Seasonal forecasting is one of the more tedious and intricate tasks for meteorologists. Not only is it difficult to predict by nature (no pun intended) — but forecast model accuracy skill is greatly reduced at that range. Often, meteorologists find themselves looking back towards past events, and analogs, for help with predicting the months ahead. […]

Despite deary start, sun returns by midweek

[alert type=”success”]Special: Check out our daily video forecast. If you wish to view a video forecast each day, register with us and head to the “Video” page under the Members tab. Enjoy![/alert] Dreary conditions, which took control of the areas weather on Monday into early Tuesday, will give way to the return to sun and […]

Clouds, showers to begin the new week

Plenty of sun, and warm temperatures, dominated the areas weather late last week into this past weekend. But late Sunday, mid and high clouds took over owing to an approaching disturbance to the west. This disturbance is over the area today — nestled between a tight mid level atmospheric flow and bringing clouds and showers […]