After a very warm start to Autumn, which featured temperature several degrees above normal essentially from late September through the middle of October, the weather pattern is set to change. You can thank the North Pacific Ocean for that – while just one of many factors responsible, it is a big one – as the […]
I’ll tell you what, I really needed a morning like this. Rain is steadily dripping on the windowsill, and it has been a gloomy (and slow) start to the morning. The coffee seems to taste a little better when I am able to enjoy a rainy morning like this. This weather has me reflecting back on […]
The North Pacific Jet has been a real bear of a forecast over the past few weeks. Model guidance has struggled with tropical forcing and the effects of re-curving typhoons (just to name a few things), and the results haven’t been pretty – we have seen a few shots of colder air modeled in the […]
The remnants of Hurricane Michael brought plenty of rainfall to parts of the area overnight Thursday into Friday morning, with bands rotating onshore and producing localized flooding. This was especially true over parts of Southeastern New Jersey, where upwards of 4″ of rainfall was observed in some locations. The reality of the situation is that […]