A late season winter storm impacted the area on Monday, with less flair than originally expected. Warm ground temperatures (and warm air temperatures during the day) combined with light precipitation rates to keep it mainly a non accumulating snow event in Northern NJ and New York City. Dry air won the battle over precipitation farther […]
Historically strong blocking, incredibly low Arctic Oscillation values, and a strong negative NAO have been in place for over 7 days. It was only a matter of time. A strong disturbance moving through the Central United States will move eastward towards the Mid Atlantic Coast, and eventually offshore. The surface low, which initially develops towards […]
Not only is March madness taking place in the college basketball world, but it’s also taking place in our world of meteorology. Cooler than normal air remains well settled into the region to begin the weekend, as historically strong blocking near Greenland and the North Pole as well as a historically negative Arctic Oscillation (AO) has […]
The Arctic Oscillation (AO) has fallen off the cliff in the last week, as incredible high latitude blocking ridges have developed both north of Alaska and over Greenland. The AO fell below -5.0 to -5.632 on March 20th, 2013 — making it by far the lowest reading after March 15th in the history of the […]