Entries by Doug Simonian

Video Discussion: Bitter Cold and a Couple of Snow Chances

Good evening! The stretch of bitter cold is here and it’s just beginning, with the biggest cold still yet to come. We are going to see multiple areas of large, Arctic high pressure sprawling across the entire US with a bitterly cold air source. These areas of cold and high pressure will be reinforced by […]

Long Range Update: Cold Intensifies, Active Pattern to Follow

Good evening! As has been heavily advertised for a while, a pattern change to cold is now imminent, and should be able to sustain itself for a couple of weeks thanks to retrograding and deepening troughing near the Aleutians. This leads to continued downstream impressive responses near the West Coast, with plenty of latent heat […]

Extremely Amplified Pattern Will Set the Stage for Arctic Cold

Good evening! The changes to the pattern have been discussed for a while, but now that the model data has finally caught on, things are starting to truly get interesting and we can entertain possibilities. An initially very zonal pattern will quickly become very amplified thanks to changes with a train of waves in the […]