Entries by Doug Simonian

Premium Weekly Outlook: Unseasonable warmth bookended by tastes of fall

Another relatively calm and dry week looks to be in-store, as we’ll start off with a taste of fall, moderate to unseasonably warm temperatures, and then again experience a taste of fall. A cold front that moved through on Saturday night has completely cleared the area, giving way to a broad area of high pressure […]

Wednesday Overview: Hermine still hanging around

You may have noticed some periods of squally, windy showers last night. Yes, that was actually from Hermine (or the remnants of it, anyway) — the system that we all just want to go away keeps finding a way to hang around. A blocking pattern captured the storm and allowed it to come back towards […]

La Nina Update: Moderate or Strong Event Unlikely This Year

While we had been tracking heat and severe thunderstorms over the first few months of the summer, the atmosphere was still undergoing a major transition away from El Nino and towards a La Nina. This transition has already resulted in sensible weather changes across much of the country, with a huge heat ridge building in the Central […]

From Strong El Nino to Strong La Nina?

Over the past few months, we have had an El Nino. In fact, it has been one of the strongest El Ninos on record, and is one of the reasons why this past winter was generally quite warm, and why the Pacific Jet stream was so fast and active. It also helped to trigger the […]