A Stagnant Weather Pattern Will Give Way to More Cool Weather for the Eastern U.S.
You didn’t think winter would go down without a fight, did you? The stagnant weather pattern that’s blanketed the United States this week is finally giving way and will be replaced by a pattern that will allow frequent shots of below-normal…
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The East Braces for Another Snowstorm While the West Prepares for Flooding Rains
This winter sure decided to go out with a bang. Two storms will bookend the United States with big disruptions to major cities along both the eastern and western coasts. The fourth nor’easter this month looks like it’ll bring significant…
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How the South Saw More Snow Than Washington D.C. This Winter
You’re not alone if you ever feel like there’s a dome warding away all signs of snowy weather in your hometown. Lots of meteorologists and snow lovers take to social media every year to complain about the “snow bubble” or…
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Another Nor’easter Will Dump Snow This Week and Nobody’s Forecast Is the Same
Archaeologists will soon be able to tell time by observing the layers in the snowpack that’s developed across the northeastern United States this month. The seeds of yet another nor’easter—the third in the past two weeks, if you’re…
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Tricky Nor’easter Places Big Cities on Line Between Big Snows or Just a Nuisance
No two snowflakes or nor’easters are exactly alike. Parts of the Northeast will experience a classic winter snowstorm on Wednesday and Thursday as a strengthening system along the coast ingests just enough cold air to produce heavy snow from…
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An Intense Windstorm Will Rake the East Coast on Friday and Saturday
The bark is sometimes worse than the bite in nor’easters. The nor’easter set to form off the East Coast tonight will not be one of those storms. If you don’t know the storm is coming, you’ll hear it soon enough. This storm will…
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Blizzard 2016: Frequently Asked Questions, Answered
Q: How much snow am I going to get? A: Here’s a snowfall forecast issued on Thursday morning and valid through Sunday morning. Q: Where do I live on that map? A: https://www.google.com/maps Q: Yeah but how much snow am I going to get?…
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Now That’s What I Call a Cold Front
Some cold fronts sweep through virtually unnoticed. Others crash through with the ugly blow of someone ripping the covers off of you in the morning. That is to say, rude. Winds swirling around a low pressure system up near the Arctic Circle and a broad…
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Late-Season Hurricane to Help Bring Snow and Ice to Central Plains Because Weather Is Awesome Like That
Tropical Storm Sandra, a stout and mighty gale blown about a low fomenting several hundred miles south of Manzanillo, Mexico, is the latest tropical storm to form in the eastern Pacific basin since Tropical Storm Winnie popped up in early December 1983.…
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Winter Storm Skittlebip IV Promises Many Inches of White Doom to the Midwest
Many have asked what Skittlebip means. The legend of Skittlebip is that its legend is never fully formed. It is an ever-lasting and frequently evolving storm, a skittleblip on the continuum of time and space partially consumed by the media’s…
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