Entries by John Homenuk

Confidence increasing in development of cold, active pattern in Eastern US

Good morning and happy Wednesday, everyone! Anomalous warmth has currently spread across a large majority of the United States, well forecast in is breadth and timing, but impressive nonetheless. Since the beginning of the week, much of the Midwestern United States has been blanketed by temperatures several degrees above normal averages for this time of […]

Midday Long Range: Transient warmth followed by big changes

Good afternoon and Happy Monday! Transient warmth remains the story during the better part of this ongoing week. In our morning briefing we discussed the evolution of a broad ridge, which will develop across the Western and Central United States this week. This ridging will shift eastward over the next 5 to 7 days, bringing […]

Signals strengthening for Mid December pattern change

Good afternoon! After a long and relaxing Thanksgiving weekend, the meteorological community almost always looks ahead to the weeks to come as December quickly approaches What lies ahead are some of the more critical weeks for many sectors, including construction, energy, natural gas and agriculture just to name a few. The weather pattern that occurs […]

Why might forecast models be diverging with the long range pattern?

Good morning! The past several days have been quite active in the meteorological community.We began last week on the tail end of a pattern featuring stagnant warmth, with ridging in the Eastern United States and cold air bottled up in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. A well advertised change has occurred since that time, […]